SoD Stitch
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This is only my second or third "new thread", so cut me some slack . . . . . .
Okay, I'm going to do a start-to-finish build on the venerable Testors 1/48th U-2C kit. For those of you who don't know, the Testors kit is actually an old Hawk plastic kit originally made in the '60's, not too long after the real U-2 first went operational. The kit itself has held up quite well through the years, though it appears somewhat primitive compared to today's super-detailed kits; there are a total of only 30 or 40 parts to the kit, but it should end up looking nice.
Just to warn you, I build strictly OOB; I'm not very good at scratch-building and super-detailing and weathering, so don't expect too much. Unfortunately, I'd already started building the model a few weeks ago, so it won't be a true start-to-finish model, so I can't show you a "before" picture. However, I can show you a picture of what the parts used to look like.
I've owned three of these kits over the years, so what I found when I dug the kit out of my pile was a box full of miscellaneous U-2 parts, some still attached to the sprue, others detached and floating around in the box, and still others that had already been painted and glued together back in the '80's; I'm basically building one complete U-2 out of the parts from 3 kits.
The overall black paint scheme looked pretty boring, and I wanted to do something unusual, so I choose the so-called "Sabre" scheme from the late '70's (besides, I've still got a TR-1/U-2R sitting on my shelf, I'll be painting that one black); it seems the Brits didn't like us flying spy planes from their airports during the '70's (maybe the Brits on the forum can offer some insight as to why), so the US Air Force agreed to paint them a different color and call them "research aircraft". Anyway, the Sabre scheme consists of two different shades of gray, one a very light gray, almost white, and the other a bluish-gray; I'm still trying to determine the best FS match for the two grays, and I haven't found any definitive answers yet, though the light gray appears to be FS 36495. Here's what it SHOULD look like when I'm done:
As soon as I can, I'll post some in-progess pictures and keep y'all upated; at this point, I've got the wings and the horizontal stabilizers glued on, but that's it, the fuselage is still split.
Oh, and I don't own an airbrush, so you may have to be patient; I paint everything by hand!
Okay, I'm going to do a start-to-finish build on the venerable Testors 1/48th U-2C kit. For those of you who don't know, the Testors kit is actually an old Hawk plastic kit originally made in the '60's, not too long after the real U-2 first went operational. The kit itself has held up quite well through the years, though it appears somewhat primitive compared to today's super-detailed kits; there are a total of only 30 or 40 parts to the kit, but it should end up looking nice.
Just to warn you, I build strictly OOB; I'm not very good at scratch-building and super-detailing and weathering, so don't expect too much. Unfortunately, I'd already started building the model a few weeks ago, so it won't be a true start-to-finish model, so I can't show you a "before" picture. However, I can show you a picture of what the parts used to look like.
I've owned three of these kits over the years, so what I found when I dug the kit out of my pile was a box full of miscellaneous U-2 parts, some still attached to the sprue, others detached and floating around in the box, and still others that had already been painted and glued together back in the '80's; I'm basically building one complete U-2 out of the parts from 3 kits.
The overall black paint scheme looked pretty boring, and I wanted to do something unusual, so I choose the so-called "Sabre" scheme from the late '70's (besides, I've still got a TR-1/U-2R sitting on my shelf, I'll be painting that one black); it seems the Brits didn't like us flying spy planes from their airports during the '70's (maybe the Brits on the forum can offer some insight as to why), so the US Air Force agreed to paint them a different color and call them "research aircraft". Anyway, the Sabre scheme consists of two different shades of gray, one a very light gray, almost white, and the other a bluish-gray; I'm still trying to determine the best FS match for the two grays, and I haven't found any definitive answers yet, though the light gray appears to be FS 36495. Here's what it SHOULD look like when I'm done:
As soon as I can, I'll post some in-progess pictures and keep y'all upated; at this point, I've got the wings and the horizontal stabilizers glued on, but that's it, the fuselage is still split.
Oh, and I don't own an airbrush, so you may have to be patient; I paint everything by hand!