Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird

[MarkSH]

Afternoon all,

 

Here is my entry for the 'Specialist' Group Build, Italeri's 1/72 SR-71 Blackbird, pretty much out of the box all bar a brass/resin pitot set and the addition of some astronauts left over from a recent Airfix Lunar Module build. The paint has been weathered using oil paints. The decals aren't that bad and conformed well with set/sol the silvering is purely down to me getting the gloss coat badly wrong with my first use of Alclad II Aqua Gloss.

 

It is not a stellar kit with some loose and ill defined fitting of the major airframe assemblies plus some well documented shape issues mainly around the nose/cheek chine profile.

 

However, that being said I enjoyed the build and am now glad I took the opportunity to add one of my favourite looking aircraft to my collection.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cheers,

 

Mark.

 

 

[russ c]

Great looking Blackbird, good job on breaking up the overall black finish

[Johnson]

Great job, well done.

Such a fantastic plane!

[RidgeRunner]

Nice

[RMCS]

Niiiice 

[neil5208]

Lovely work

[petetasker]

Nice, the weathering breaks up the overall black scheme nicely. Do you mind me asking what went wrong with the Alclad Gloss. Just about to use it for the first time myself. Cheers

[BIG X]

WOWSER - No - DOUBLE WOWSER!!!!!!

[MarkSH]

5 hours ago, petetasker said:

Nice, the weathering breaks up the overall black scheme nicely. Do you mind me asking what went wrong with the Alclad Gloss. Just about to use it for the first time myself. Cheers

Hi @petetasker, and thanks for your comments. With regard to Alclad II Aqua Gloss, from what I gathered from comments made in the build thread, I was just too timid with my application, the trick with Aqua Gloss, apparently, is to apply it almost until it is about to develop runs. All in all though it was easy to spray and clean up so I will persevere.

Cheers,

Mark.

[Greg Law]

You have made a splendid job of this. Pity about the decal, but the overall finish out weights that little hiccup. 

[billn53]

3 hours ago, MarkSH said:

Hi @petetasker, and thanks for your comments. With regard to Alclad II Aqua Gloss, from what I gathered from comments made in the build thread, I was just too timid with my application, the trick with Aqua Gloss, apparently, is to apply it almost until it is about to develop runs. All in all though it was easy to spray and clean up so I will persevere.

Cheers,

Mark.

As one of the last steps in my recently completed B-58 Hustler build, I gave everything a generous coat of Aqua Gloss. I was worried at first about a milky appearance where it had pooled, but everything was perfectly clear after it was dry. 

[Inverted]

That’s a pretty convincing black finish! Superb work there!