Author Topic: Habu (Read 30334 times)

taiidantomcat · « **on:** July 07, 2012, 09:27:51 AM »

It is time to get this show on the road! So after a close look at my stash and making a few pro/con decisions, I took out the SR-71 box and dug out a kit.

Not going to give anything away on this. No more hints, or help-- This is a Black Project after all!! I will talk about techniques, bit for the most part I will let the pictures do the talking for how this will end.

Jeffry Fontaine · « **Reply #1 on:** July 07, 2012, 11:37:39 AM »

Italeri, Monogram, Revell, Hasegawa, or Chinese clone? I know it is 1/72nd scale. :)

taiidantomcat · « **Reply #2 on:** July 07, 2012, 12:52:29 PM »

Quote from: Jeffry Fontaine on July 07, 2012, 11:37:39 AM

Italeri, Monogram, Revell, Hasegawa, or Chinese clone? I know it is 1/72nd scale. :)

It is the latest Revell boxing.

Jeffry Fontaine · « **Reply #3 on:** July 07, 2012, 02:44:12 PM »

Quote from: taiidantomcat on July 07, 2012, 12:52:29 PM

Quote from: Jeffry Fontaine on July 07, 2012, 11:37:39 AM
Italeri, Monogram, Revell, Hasegawa, or Chinese clone? I know it is 1/72nd scale. :)

It is the latest Revell boxing.

Yep, no doubt about it. I missed the D-21 launch pylon and the transport dolly parts that are still attached to the sprues. I missed those the first time I looked at that image.

taiidantomcat · « **Reply #4 on:** July 09, 2012, 11:31:33 PM »

Quote from: Jeffry Fontaine on July 07, 2012, 02:44:12 PM

Quote from: taiidantomcat on July 07, 2012, 12:52:29 PM
Quote from: Jeffry Fontaine on July 07, 2012, 11:37:39 AM
Italeri, Monogram, Revell, Hasegawa, or Chinese clone? I know it is 1/72nd scale. :)

It is the latest Revell boxing.

Yep, no doubt about it. I missed the D-21 launch pylon and the transport dolly parts that are still attached to the sprues. I missed those the first time I looked at that image.

I didnt know what those were!

I finally had to resort to looking at the instructions

Scale-o-rama

Intrument panels have wonderful detail that responded easily to a wash.

Glued them in and reinforced them with sprue

Super glued the halves together. This got a little dicey as the super glue began running Just about everywhere including onto my shorts!!

But I managed to clamp everything together well enough and avoid serious issues in the future (or so I hope)

The next step is to fill and sand the hell out of it to make it smooth, after that I have to fit the new Tail fins.

Dr. YoKai · « **Reply #5 on:** July 09, 2012, 11:38:47 PM »

O golly, I haven't built one of those since the Revell kit came out in the '60s. Still a wonderful design,
and I expect we'll see some magic with this interpretation.

Jeffry Fontaine · « **Reply #6 on:** July 10, 2012, 01:54:16 AM »

Quote from: taiidantomcat on July 09, 2012, 11:31:33 PM

Quote from: Jeffry Fontaine on July 07, 2012, 02:44:12 PM
Quote from: taiidantomcat on July 07, 2012, 12:52:29 PM
Quote from: Jeffry Fontaine on July 07, 2012, 11:37:39 AM
Italeri, Monogram, Revell, Hasegawa, or Chinese clone? I know it is 1/72nd scale. :)
It is the latest Revell boxing.

Yep, no doubt about it. I missed the D-21 launch pylon and the transport dolly parts that are still attached to the sprues. I missed those the first time I looked at that image.
I didnt know what those were! I finally had to resort to looking at the instructions

Never understood why Monogram (now Revell) included the D-21 with their SR-71 since the original M-21/D-21 was based on the A-12 airframe. I suspect they were going for the "wow" factor which seemed to work for me as I picked up a couple of those kits for the D-21 and discarded the rest of the SR-71 kit to someone else.

Trickle down economics? I guess it was in a way :)

Brian da Basher · « **Reply #7 on:** July 11, 2012, 04:22:55 AM »

You've chosen a kit that's totally ripe for whiffing, Mr Tomcat!

I am already wanting to see more!

Brian da Basher

taiidantomcat · « **Reply #8 on:** July 12, 2012, 11:04:51 AM »

Quote from: Brian da Basher on July 11, 2012, 04:22:55 AM

You've chosen a kit that's totally ripe for whiffing, Mr Tomcat!

I am already wanting to see more!

Brian da Basher

Thanks BDB! As much as it pains me to do I am trying to keep a lot of this a surprise! Want the final result to be eye watering good for us whiffers and eye wateringly bad for JMNs!

Half hour of sanding

1/48 Tomcat canopy mangled to fit

Kind of hard to tell in this pic, but the sharp edges of the SR-71s rear were rounded off. After I took this photo I rounded them even more. $:-\$

finsrin · « **Reply #9 on:** July 12, 2012, 11:13:25 AM »

Watching with great interest.
Believe model with most duplicates in stash is SR-71 in three scales (1/72, 1/110, 1/144) at least a dozen for sure.
Bill

Litvyak · « **Reply #10 on:** July 12, 2012, 11:46:33 AM »

TT, you've definitely got my attention!

Finsrin: 1/110? Who did that one?

ChernayaAkula · « **Reply #11 on:** July 12, 2012, 01:00:03 PM »

Scale-o-rama'd, fighter-style canopy Habu! Whoa!

finsrin · « **Reply #12 on:** July 12, 2012, 02:01:11 PM »

Quote from: Litvyak on July 12, 2012, 11:46:33 AM

TT, you've definitely got my attention!

Finsrin: 1/110? Who did that one?

Revell,,, Don't know if they still make it.

RussC · « **Reply #13 on:** July 12, 2012, 09:50:20 PM »

Whats that thumping sound from the back row of the design cubicles at BTS aero Inc. ?

Me jumping up and down for joy at the idea of a bubble top blackbird !!!

Brian da Basher · « **Reply #14 on:** July 13, 2012, 04:01:05 AM »

That canopy is a master stroke!

You never cease to amaze, Mr Tomcat!

Brian da Basher

taiidantomcat · « **Reply #15 on:** July 13, 2012, 09:16:11 AM »

Quote from: RussC on July 12, 2012, 09:50:20 PM

the idea of a bubble top blackbird !!!

I have some other ideas for that too! this is the first time I have tried it, and its worked very well so far. Hope to try it again on another project that is still probably in the distant future

Quote from: Brian da Basher on July 13, 2012, 04:01:05 AM

That canopy is a master stroke!

You never cease to amaze, Mr Tomcat!

Brian da Basher

Likewise! :)

The new Tailfins cut from 1/48 Tomcat Horizontal Stabs. The metal rods are for reinforcing the new joint after drilling hole in both the fins and fuselage.

the nose with styrene strip to hold all the lead shot in. Its bad to use super glue on the shot, so I just decided to seal it in there, and not worry. But as you can see I had to trim it to fit again! easy fix.

So maybe just a few more pictures and then this project is "going dark" I don't want to reveal anything until the weathering stage.

Stay tuned! I hope to have it done by Sunday night.

Litvyak · « **Reply #16 on:** July 13, 2012, 09:41:13 AM »

Can't wait for the unveiling!

Dr. YoKai · « **Reply #17 on:** July 13, 2012, 10:05:12 PM »

I am intrigued. But whats the problem with superglue and lead shot? Does the heat release vapors?

taiidantomcat · « **Reply #18 on:** July 13, 2012, 11:26:35 PM »

Quote from: Dr. YoKai on July 13, 2012, 10:05:12 PM

I am intrigued. But whats the problem with superglue and lead shot? Does the heat release vapors?

http://www.ratomodeling.com/articles/lead_ca/lead_ca.html

taiidantomcat · « **Reply #19 on:** July 14, 2012, 11:42:16 PM »

Nose attached, filled and sanded. intake spikes added, along with exhausts.

Last pic for a while....

taiidantomcat · « **Reply #20 on:** July 17, 2012, 01:58:03 AM »

I confess those engines spikes were never glued in

^ Anything looks cool and Japanese with the addition of a Dinah windscreen

Would have preferred to have contra-rotating props but those are expensive and thus rare in the TT stash. I do hope to do one with contraprops in the future though

1/48 Dinah props, 1/72 B-50 engines with intakes removed.

Quote from: taiidantomcat on July 13, 2012, 09:16:11 AM

I hope to have it done by Sunday night.

TTomcat is a huge liar!! There should be a recall election!

Sadly but not surprisingly I am running late but that might not be a bad thing. I am going to post what I have so far (interesting concept for a GB, I know) And get some opinions. These opinions are very important to me, so please comment.

Firstly, Although I thought of this "independantly" I am not the only person to think of it:

http://s362974870.onlinehome.us/forums/air/index.php?showtopic=109451&hl=blackbird&st=0

Pic from Kyo-Jin Lee on ARC. But he put it on just to see since he had a Corsair handy. I think he built a regular SR-71 but I don't know because the build thread stops.

The love of my life, the Future Mrs TaiidanTomcat likes the SR-71 and absolutely loathes what I am doing here, since I first told her about it. She is no JMN but she is a huge SR-71 fan and thinks my model "destroys the point" of the Blackbird . To the extent that even I am wondering if i should do something different. $:-\$

So thoughts, questions, comments, criticisms, voodoo curses, etc, all welcome. :)

Jeffry Fontaine · « **Reply #21 on:** July 17, 2012, 02:21:08 AM »

A shame you don't have a quartet of J7W Shindens, a C-130J, or an AirBus A400M to steal the propellers from. It would look so much better with unducted fan type propellers :)

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #22 on:** July 17, 2012, 02:45:02 AM »

Ok, now you have my attention.

RussC · « **Reply #23 on:** July 17, 2012, 03:55:29 AM »

Not only a +10 for deviousness, but a fascinating design too, build it that way. The only thing spinning faster than the props is Kelly Johnson,

Somehow I think he's getting a laugh out of this though.

Little do we know that Tomcat' doesn't have the four radial engines glued down either and he's going to complete the model as a nautical theme with twin paddlewheels on each side....

ysi_maniac · « **Reply #24 on:** July 17, 2012, 04:05:15 AM »

Beautiful!


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Author Topic: Habu (Read 30334 times)