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A fellow modeler painted his SR-71
pink, and applied British markings on it. I raced down to the
hobby shop and bought the kit. I sent an email to the modeler and got a
reply. Later on, I emailed some modelers over in England to see if they
knew anything about the pink SR-71, that was loaned to Britain. I
received negative answers. They don't think the U.S. of A. ever
loaned Britain a SR-71.
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The story and model is in the
"Hypothetical Division of Brain Storm Ideas." By this time, I
had already applied the pink paint to my model. There's another model of
a SR-71 on a web site that is all bare metal. It has one cockpit,
so I guess it's the first SR-71 proto type. I have several bare
metal airplane models, but no pink airplanes. WHY NOT PINK ?
Dave Newman was kind enough to
make up the "British Roundels" and the "Royal Air Force"
decals for me. I found the rest of the markings in my decal
collection.
This is the first model that I
have ever built, that I did not need weight forward of the main landing
gears.
Monogram made the kit with raised
panel lines which had to be sanded off, then re scribed in.
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The kit plastic was black, so I
applied white paint to cover up the black color. This method let's the
modeler apply less paint of lighter colors, such as yellow, red, pink, light
blue,etc.
Since I still have
lot's of Tamiya's X-17 Gloss Pink paint left over, I guess I should build my
"recon" Spitfire, that was painted pink during WW-II.
Rodney
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