Testors SR-71A
Horrible seat, but thankfully the canopy would be closed and it would be practically impossible to see inside through the small windows.
Rescribe on this piece is done, and now it's been sanded. Note the sink holes all along the sides.
Note all the injector pins marks. Lots of filling and sanding ahead. Also, you can see the nose wheel bay that comes with the kit. It's practically non existent - shallow and very inaccurate. That's why I scratch-built a replacement.
Huge joins that require a ton of filling.
Big gap, plus a lot of rescribing cleanup to do.
Beginning of the scratch nose wheel well.
I could have left it like this and it would have been better than the kit wheel well.
Small pieces went into this wheel well.
Only some of the scratch pieces created.
Completed wheel well.
Completed wheel well.
Completed wheel well.
Completed wheel well.
Rounded, deep joins.
So.much.superglue.
First piece that I primed after all the body work. Came out perfect the first time. A huge relief.
Huge gap on canopy.
This join was the worst of all of them. I think it took six times of floating the putty and lots of sanding to get it right.
Putty monster grows.
Finally smooth up front.
This was a big day. Finally an even color after months of body work.
Base coat applied. Had to build a jig to hold this thing.
Like everything else, the nose didn't fit well. Lots of putty and sanding.
Added missing hoses, and did my best to get the tire color and wear discoloration correct based on reference photos.
Added missing hoses, and did my best to get the tire color and wear discoloration correct based on reference photos.
From our local club meeting. One of the few pictures I have of the whole thing.
From our local club meeting. One of the few pictures I have of the whole thing.
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4 20 September 2020, 03:02
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This old, old kit lives up to it's reputation as being a royal pain. Nothing fit correctly, sink holes/injector marks were everywhere, and it had raised panel lines. I spent for-ev-er filling/blending joints, rescribing the whole thing, adding rivots throughout, and scratch-building the entire nose wheel bay. I swore I would never build another one of these, then Revell announced a new kit, so, we'll see. This thing is so big that it's difficult to get good pictures of the entire thing. I need to figure out a new way to shoot it in new light. In the meantime, sorry the final pics are avant-garde.
