Lockheed SR-71 A Blackbird

Stephen G
I'm almost finished. Would have finished before now, but one of the intake cones was a weird shape and needed a replacement.

My honest opinion? It's better than standard Revell fare. But - their design team (who have made clear progress) is being let down by their factory and plastic quality, in my opinion. Some things not picked up on in most reviews:

- The panel lining can be VERY shallow in places and any sanding will result in the need to re-scribe, and in a couple of instances the lines just randomly stop...
- There are some bad sink marks I've come across in a few of the parts
- If you look carefully you will start to see little dents, marks and deformities in the plastic. At least mine had around half a dozen.

There are other things about, but... it is a Blackbird and it is better than any other option. The fit is decent, the only filling I had to do was the engines to the fuselage. You do get a decent stand for it. The decals are fine. And there aren't that many pieces, so it's a quick build with a big end product.

Would I buy another Revell kit on the back of the experience? Probably not.

That's my two cents!

Kevin Johnson
Yeah it looks like it might need rescribing in places. I don't have any problems doing that, really, but this kit is fairly expensive and more effort could have been made.

reefta
I almost finished mine

Its not a good kit by any means, so many seamlines just about everywhere to fill, sand and re-scribe.
For around 100$ kit i would have expect a much better kit

Erik Leijdens
Have this kit too, looks good in the box. Busy with the Italeri/Testors YF-12 at the moment, wonder how it compares to the Revell SR-71 when building it.

John Hart
thanks

Aaron Bennett
I'm really excited about it, but you're right, now may be the time to part with some of it. This is always a risk as a model collector I guess. A new tool bringing down the value of a once sought after kit. This has happened quite a bit to me recently. Trumpeter with their 1/48 Whirlwind really dropped the value of my Classic Airframes kits , Academy's 1/48 Huckbein took my AMTech kits way down, Modelcollects 1/72 B2 hurt my Testors stash, and now this. Please know I'm complaining at all here, I love new releases, just an interesting aspect of modeling.

Pero Susinger
I never thought of my kits as an investment. 😄

Tnagy
It will be out in October.