Subject: Re: Gallery - SR71 Blackbird
From: "Steve Bamford ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "Aibara Darius @Consult" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 11:31:26 -0800

Hi Darius,
Thanks for sending in your SR-71 article.  I'll add it to the line-up.  I'll
e-mail you when your article goes on ARC.
Steve Bamford
Aircraft Resource Center
http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com

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From: Aibara Darius @Consult <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 12:16 AM
Subject: Gallery - SR71 Blackbird

Gallery Template #05
"1:48 Italeri Lockheed SR71"
by "Darius Aibara"
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This is Italeri's big SR71 kit built almost straight out of the box.  The
kit requires filler where the forward and rear fuselage parts connect but
otherwise goes together OK.  The cockpit detail is rudimentary but, unless
you pose the canopy open, there is little visible through the windows.
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I used satin black Halfords auto spray primer for the entire kit and applied
Superscale decals to represent an aircraft of the 9th SRW when based at
Beale AFB.  Getting the "star and bar" decals to conform to the corrugated
upper wing surfaces was a lot of fun - requiring copious amounts of
Microsol/set and some basic Anglo-Saxon phrases of encouragement!  A coat of
Johnson's Clear made them stay put.  Finally I "polished" the wheels with
SNJ powder to represent the metallic content of the tyres on the real
aircraft.
There are many good references on the SR71 and Lockheed's Skunk Works but my
personal favourite is the book "Skunk Works" by Ben Rich and Leo Janos ,
which tells the stories of the F117 and U2 as well as the YF12 and SR71.

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Photos and text © 2003 by "Darius Aibara"

 <>  <<SR71.zip>>

Darius Aibara
TPS Consult

Tel:  020 8256 4090
Fax: 020 8256 4082

www.tpsconsult.co.uk

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