1/48 Italeri U-2R

Gallery Article by Maurizio Bressan

 

This is my latest kit and I found it to have the standard Italeri quality. Black soft plastic, poor quality interiors, good decals and so on. 

 

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I started to buid the U-2R "Senior Span" improving the cockpit and the seat. I added some seat belts, handles,  cushions, sticks and so on. - Thanks to an ARC modeller for the cockpit photos! -  Some "Remove before flight" tags are been added, too.  Apart the cockpit all the kit is been built OOB. Some parts received "tons" of putty/filler. As regards the paintings, a medium grey was used as primer, a coat of matt black as second cote and some light passes of blue and gray in order to highlight all details. 

I preferred to cover jet intakes and jet nozzle with cigarette paper and vinilic glue in order to have some different colors apart the black.

I spent about 30 hours to complete the model.
 You can see some pics of a real U-2 spyplane at my web site dedicated to Military Aviation:
www.ma-files.it --- airshows --- Tiger meet Fairford 1991! Enjoy it!
Thanks to ARC, my friend Roberto Sauro and to an ARC modeller for the interior pics.
 Ciao

Maurizio Bressan

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Photos and text © by Maurizio Bressan