haneto Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 (edited) Hi,guys! Long time no see! I got a quite busy time recently because of my job and my dog Sasha. Finally I found some time for modeling and this time I chose to finish the in-progressed works. One of them is this SR-71A. It is the ancient Hasegawa kit with raised panel lines. I only made a few corrections so it's almostly OOB. As it's not the most accurate kit,I didn't waste time on detail-up works. This time I concentrated on "painting" 'cause the Habu(I prefer this nickname) has a unique burnt colour. Some in-progress pics: The top of the parts was exchanged by the stainless needle to keep it sharp and strong. The windshield of Hasegawa oroginal kit has some shape problem and that'll spoil the evil look of Habu. So I made some correction. I rescribed all the panel lines only on the upper surface. Yes,I do know that the raised panel lines on Hasegawa kit were mostly inaccurate,but I decide to neglect those things just in order to begin the painting ASAP. The assembling was little tough. The "Russian Soldier"(?) was included in the Egg Plan version of Habu. I exchanged the rod with stainless one. Edited December 18, 2007 by haneto Quote Link to post Share on other sites
haneto Posted December 16, 2007 Author Share Posted December 16, 2007 (edited) Usually I do not use putty but this guy's too big and made in the s*cking black plastic...... :blink: I used several "black" colours for the painting. The base colour was "Mignight Blue" which made by C2 Gloss Black:C14 Navy Blue=3:1 Then add Red Brown/Navy Blue/White into the base colour. I used 6 colours in all. The Hasegawa original decal was too thick and with yellowish white area. But it went quite well with the Gunze mark softer. Then I used Tamiya enamel colours for washing:German grey:Brown:White=2:2:6 And fianlly a matt coating. Edited December 18, 2007 by haneto Quote Link to post Share on other sites
haneto Posted December 16, 2007 Author Share Posted December 16, 2007 (edited) Finished pics! Edited December 18, 2007 by haneto Quote Link to post Share on other sites
haneto Posted December 16, 2007 Author Share Posted December 16, 2007 (edited) More! Edited December 18, 2007 by haneto Quote Link to post Share on other sites
haneto Posted December 16, 2007 Author Share Posted December 16, 2007 (edited) Edited December 18, 2007 by haneto Quote Link to post Share on other sites
haneto Posted December 16, 2007 Author Share Posted December 16, 2007 (edited) Do I look like that guy? Large baby!No smaller than a heavy bomber in WWII Skunk works! Edited December 18, 2007 by haneto Quote Link to post Share on other sites
haneto Posted December 16, 2007 Author Share Posted December 16, 2007 (edited) Her daughter! The decal was printed in 1988,almost 20 years ago! Badly yellowished,but I have no choice...... Training for some writting during modeling. :blink: This word means "Fast". While this means "Me the Greatest Only One" with "Camera" in the middle. A famous Japanese dish "Oyako Don",which is made by chicken meat and eggs. This picture named after one of my favourite novels. That's all.Thanks for watching! Edited December 18, 2007 by haneto Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Najk Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Stunning! It looks just all that real. Awesome paintjob!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
KRI76 Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Awesome Blackbird! You made mine look like a beginners kit. Wonderful paint job! /Kristian Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ChernayaAkula Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Awesome work! As usual... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brian P: Fightertown Decals Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 WOW!! That is the most realistic and effective paint job I've ever seen on a Sled! Having had the great fortune of being at the SR-71's retirement ceremony and the last launch of the jet that made a speed run to Dulles and retired AND with Meteor's recent SR-71 sets, I've got a real strong desire to put out an SR-71 sheet this year... And I've got a Testor's 1/48 kit that was started years ago that now I'd love to go back and build... Fightertown does a Sled - what do you guys think? Thanks for sharing this model - it is a work of art! -brian Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jeff briner Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 Great looking model, I enjoyed the pictures. Every time I see a model of this subject I am reminded of a story that might be of some interest so I will pass it along here. This reminds me of a story from an IPMS-USA convention in the mid-seventies. Lloyd Jones was an executive with Revell at the time, and they had just released their 1/72 scale SR-71/YF-12A model; a very hush-hush aircraft at the time, with no published dimensions. So how did Revell do it? There was an open press day where news photographers were invited to take pictures of this big black bird thing. Seems while all of the other press people were taking pictures with wide view lenses, the Revell crew concentrated on detail closeups of everything they could see. They were however able to get some very nice plan view shots looking down on the plane; parked in the middle of one of those concrete slab sections. Now overall dimensions of the Blackbird were classified, but the airman standing alongside was very helpful in supplying the non-classified dimensions for said slab; something like 20'X25' (or whatever). So Revell moldmakers had a perfect plan view of the plane that they could grid off for scaling purposes, along with pleanty of close up detail photos. When the dimensions of the SR-71 were finally released, Revell was less than 6" off true scale. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Marcin_S Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 Very nice indeed. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aggressor Supporter Posted December 30, 2007 Share Posted December 30, 2007 Nice work on the Blackbird and Nighthawk. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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