Testors SR-71A
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Horrible seat, but thankfully the canopy would be closed and it would be practically impossible to see inside through the small windows.
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Rescribe on this piece is done, and now it's been sanded. Note the sink holes all along the sides.
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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.
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Huge joins that require a ton of filling.
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Big gap, plus a lot of rescribing cleanup to do.
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Beginning of the scratch nose wheel well.
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I could have left it like this and it would have been better than the kit wheel well.
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Small pieces went into this wheel well.
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Only some of the scratch pieces created.
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Completed wheel well.
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Completed wheel well.
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Completed wheel well.
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Completed wheel well.
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Rounded, deep joins.
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So.much.superglue.
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First piece that I primed after all the body work. Came out perfect the first time. A huge relief.
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Huge gap on canopy.
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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.
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Putty monster grows.
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Finally smooth up front.
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This was a big day. Finally an even color after months of body work.
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Base coat applied. Had to build a jig to hold this thing.
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Like everything else, the nose didn't fit well. Lots of putty and sanding.
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Added missing hoses, and did my best to get the tire color and wear discoloration correct based on reference photos.
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Added missing hoses, and did my best to get the tire color and wear discoloration correct based on reference photos.
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From our local club meeting. One of the few pictures I have of the whole thing.
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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.