My Habu-pics

Modeling Subjects Aircraft
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well heres my Monogram 1/72 SR-71. I didnt try to worry too much about how it turned out but I’m pretty happy with it. Except the decals were a little out of register. I made some FOD panels for the cans and a few flight tags with white squigles on them cuz i cant write that small and my printer is being cranky.[;)]
I learned a couple of things building this one:

  1. before painting, make sure the clear parts are NOT on the bench;
  2. detail master micromesh sheets really help get paint off of and polish clear parts;
  3. Its really hard to get decals down on those ridges;
  4. taking good pics of a black plane is pretty hard.

But, for a $10 walmart kit I guess its ok.








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Nice work I just finnished a habu in 1/48 it came out fairly well given the airbrush problems i was subjected to durring my final painting as soon as i figure out how to post pictures it will surely be displayed i just hope its as well done as yours by the way the tags really make the model[8D][:D][bow][tup]

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Very nice build. Thanks for sharing.

Regards, Rick

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Way to go, Matt, well done! I’m presently doing a 1/72 SR-71 myself (Academy kit with the D-21 drone) for the Stealth GB. I hope mine comes out just as well as yours.

Cheers,
onyan

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thanks for the comments guys.
H-master-1/48 thats HUGE hope you got a big shelf! I was surprised how big it was just in 1/72!
onyan- Actually I was doing this as sort of ‘practice’ for the nighthawk I just started on for the stealth GB. I wanted to test out the paint I’m going to use. FYI I used tamiya gloss black spray can, decalled and then flat finish.

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Very nicely done. Love the cockpit detail, thanks for sharing

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I have built the testors SR71 and used the habu decals for tail number 17974 which was stationed at Kadena Okinawa in th 70s when I was there. We watched every morning when that beauty took off and headed out over the China Sea. Incidently the nickname habu was given by the Okinawan folks which is a cobra snake

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Nice Blackbird! Got to love this machine! Makes me want to get going on the Hasegawa kit I have stashed somewhere…

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WOW!! That came out really nice. Now I’m really embarrassed to show off mine

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What Dave said… I can see myself in there at 6 in the morning, loading the front and rear map projecters for the days mission. I still can’t believe that’s a 1/72. Awesome work on the protective covers too. I can’t see anything you’ve forgot, except maybe the drip pans underneath to catch all the dripping fuel.

Don

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it looks good. thanks for posting it.

joe

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Nice build

Thad

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Hey Matt,
Just going thru the weeks posts and thought I’d drop you a “nice build”. Just curious, how’d you do the FOD panels?
-Omar

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thanks Omar, those are cut from a sheet of foamy hobby stuff they sell at walmart for about a buck a sheet. I think its for kids to make puppets out of or something but i used it for my own evil purposes[}:)]. and then i just cut slits and pushed some of the same tape from the tags thru and presto.