Italeri | No. 808 | 1:48 | Lockheed U-2C
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67 30 November 2021, 14:28
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Hello Robert 🙂 HNY to you! Thanks very much for the comment, hope to do your interest justice 👍
6 January 2022, 20:25
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Hi Augie. Excellent! Glad to have your interest 😊 very kind of you to comment 👍
7 January 2022, 21:09
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Cheers James C and David H, hope you're both well 🙂 really appreciate your interest and comments mates 👍 I'm getting distracted by my other builds on the go at the moment. But I will get back to this one again soon. It's another oldie kit but what an iconic aircraft!
13 January 2022, 18:42
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Cheers @charlie 😉 kind of you to comment. I've also added some new imagery today 👍
4 February 2022, 12:05
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Looks to be coming along nicely mate 👍
You going to camouflage it per the box art or paint it black?
21 February 2022, 16:34
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Hiya @James C hope you're well 🙂 thanks for commenting mate. Yes. I'm going for the more unusual box-art camouflage scheme. I believe they called it a 'Sabre' scheme that was used when operating out of the UK in the 70s... A bit different to the usual black 👍
22 February 2022, 09:13
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Hi mates! 🙂 Thank you very much for stopping by and your kind words 👍 much appreciated.
15 March 2022, 10:38
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Following. Interresting method of recreating raised panel lines, great result so far!
16 March 2022, 21:38
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Hi Patryk 🙂 thanks for commenting and also for the likes guys. I'll get some new pictures up soon 👍
20 March 2022, 10:52
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Really nice job on that camo scheme. I've also never seen one in anything but black. Very cool! 👍
8 April 2022, 18:12
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Wow i built this old dog about 30 years ago and i think it was released about 30 years before that! (around 1962 from Hawk i think?) I did the NASA scheme back then.
8 April 2022, 21:40
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Thanks David 👍 Hi Glenn, yeah agreed, it's an old one for sure. I only really build up vintage stuff. I almost went for the NASA variant, but the condition of the kit decals dictated my choice really. 👍🙂
10 April 2022, 12:56
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It's funny that they camouflaged the top of the airplane. Who's going to be looking down on it? 🙂
18 September 2022, 01:05
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Looks very good Neil! Love the camouflage scheme! Is it finished already?
18 September 2022, 06:50
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Hi mates 🙂 I'm certainly no expert on this sort of stuff, I too wondered why the camouflage was an option on a U2... So did a bit of research before I began... The detail I found I added against this album's description for what was called the 'Sabre' scheme 👍 hope this helps.
Thanks for your interest, your comments and your likes also to all. Means a helluva lot mates 🙂🙂👍
18 September 2022, 13:19
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Erm, has to sorta land and park up somewhere. Wouldn't want to make it too easy when you're on the ground .. 😂
18 September 2022, 14:55
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Thanks Cuajete. Very kind of you 👍 🙂
Regarding the kit option and my chosen scheme (Robert & David - 🙂 haha!): apparently "The 2 tone grey colour scheme (Sabre Scheme) was insisted upon by the UK Government, concerned about the implications of "black" ops being carried out by American U-2s operating from a UK base. The TR1 was so designated for similar reasons... to dissociate the aircraft from its predecessors". If I have any of this wrong (which is highly likely!) Please feel free to correct me... 🙂 👍
21 September 2022, 10:39
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Wow, what a great result. Nice job!
Btw: I like the way you repair the raised panel lines on the kit. I must try that too.
11 March 2023, 20:10
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Thanks mates! You're all really kind to comment 🙂 and also to those who liked too 👍 I will get the final reveal images on here soon.
12 March 2023, 21:52
Album info
The Lockheed U-2, nicknamed "Dragon Lady", is an American single-jet engine, high altitude reconnaissance aircraft operated by the United States Air Force (USAF) and previously flown by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). It provides day and night, high-altitude (70,000 feet, 21,300 meters), all-weather intelligence gathering.
The scheme I've chosen to (loosely) follow will be a U-2C painted in a gray camouflage pattern called the "Sabre" scheme in 1975. The camouflage replaced the usual black finish to ease British concerns about "spy planes" operating from the UK. In Europe, this U-2 tested equipment to locate and suppress enemy surface-to-air missiles.