SR-71 Blackbird - 1/48 - New Kit from Revell - full build 

The SR-71 looks like something that could be unveiled tomorrow as a next generation fighter. But it was flying in the 60s. Absolutely incredible.

Superb Build - Great video. Without the BlackBirds - world policies and relations would be so different now. The SR-71A BlackBirds are still futuristic looking. If someone who didn't know anything about military planes and was just showed a pucture of the BlakBirds - they would never believe they were designed in the 50's and entered service in the mid 60's.

Used to build so many of these models back when I was 13/14, won quite a few local/regional competitions in the Junior category. I actually gave away all my modelling stuff to the local club I belonged to (airbrush, paints, haul of unbuilt kits I’d stocked up over the years). This videos made me want to go out and buy it all again haha, I’m 21 now I wonder if I still have it!

Also, I love how you show almost every step. It helps to learn. Lots of “so THAT’S how you do that” moments that can’t be found in still pictures, or videos of finished process. Thank you!

As someone who started work in 1968 as a professional model maker in the Ship building industry, Just Excellent, well done,

WOW! So cool your build! I commend you for going above and beyond! Incredible job! I learned a lot just by watching you. Thx for sharing this amazing build and your outstanding work!!! Kudos!

stunning detail build wish i could do one the same but i suffer from nerve twitches shakes at times this is my all time number one plane i was lucky to see it at a air show and woow i was hooked

Thanks so much for this inspiring video. i just tried your black-over-white-over-black- shading technique for the first time on a P-61. Even for a newbie it turned out pretty nice. i can't wait to try more of your weathering techniques!

Beautiful music.

ONE WORD..WOW!!!!!

I remember "attempting" to build this when I was around 14. I didn't have nearly the technical expertise and tools necessary to pull it off. It was fun while it lasted. That is until it met the 4th of July.

Unreal amount of detail. Great job on the build.

@ 20:11 "My Precious..." great video, skills , and model, thanks for sharing!

I am grateful for your “old school building.” Personally I prefer building kits without having to purchase eleventy-billion after market parts - instead you scratch built very well & made it look great. I intend to build mine by incorporating several of your ideas - thank you for sharing & keeping it “old school” & doable on a limited budget. Keep up the great work !

Impressive - especially the weathering work and what you did with the seat details in the cockpit. This is one huge plane!

Bonjour superbe boulot👍👍👍👍

Just an amazing straight out of the box build.......with an amazing ability to properly apply the right amount of wear & weather. You have certainly done your research, and applied what you have seen..... Your attention to detail is second to none, what we lose in these vids is the total time taken, and the drying time for sure. A great build, one of the very best I have seen on YT. BRAVO!

Man alive! That thing is a lump! Cracking job.

Шикарный птиц получился !👍👍👍

Insane painting techniques

Excellent.

Put it on a pad, adjust the perspective you'd think it was ready to launch. Excellent build. USAF '63-'67.👍👍

And someone finally built it.

Decades ago, I retired from modelling, simply b/c my skill-level peaked around mediocre-plus: this was an incredible, vicarious build... excellent work!!! I wish I could have seen what you did with those display engines🤔

built mine by building to top surfaces first (center, engines, outer wings), and then adding engines, then engine cover, center bottom, and then outer wings, almost no putty needed... Great job.

Stood right next to the SR-71 in Udvar-Hazy Center in 2019. You have done a wonderful build. Nice work and details on the kit. 👍

I was stationed at Beale AFB, CA. Really good job on the build.

wow, crazy good

ディテール追加、すご〜い！ 今度、1/72のブラックバードを挑戦します。 同じ様なディテール追加は出来ないけど、頑張って仕上げますね！ 次の動画を期待してますね！

Superbe réalisation. Merci pour le partage.

Wow! Incredible job! Thanks for sharing!

only because you are such extreme perfectionist, I will tell you that the main wheels are not right...

great weathering, it levels the model extrem up!

Nice realistic☺😉

As a huge fan and SR-71 “aficionado” and long time builder, I have to say that overall that’s a really nice build. But it seems you somewhat dropped the ball on your research and some of your colors are a little off if you’re striving for accuracy. I won’t nitpick too much, but the biggest mistake was on the landing gear, despite your efforts to add details. The struts should actually be a very dark matte charcoal, almost black, and the exposed part of the suspension and retraction struts that would be very shiny chrome-like color on most planes is actually a matte silver. Also, the main mount tires are impregnated with aluminum and are in fact silver in color except where the tread has worn. Lastly, the circular blast shield in the main wells that the wheels retract into is painted red on the outer surface. Like I said, I’m a huge fan of the Blackbird and I’ve built several as well as a YF-12 and have several books on this bird, and I’ve also gotten “behind the ropes” and up close to the one locally at March Field Museum, so I’m probably just being overly critical. Good job though.

I've watched a lot of build vids of the SR-71. And to my mind and eye, your finishing and weathering takes 1st place 🏆! Excellent work 👍

Awesome looking Blackbird. I particularly like the finish you achieved with the overall black paint scheme.👍

Amazing

Що вам сказати ,пластик це добре 1:48 ,😀😀😀😀👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻,супер .я збираю sr-71 з паперу в масштабі 1-24 ,перероблена та дороблена двигунами алюмінієва фольга ,папір .

Talent and an expert

So realistic you couldn’t smoke around the model otherwise your man space would have gone up in flames 🔥

Espectacular!!!! Un uso maestro de los productos de weathering . Ahi va like

OUTSTANDING.

Unbelievable!! Well done!

Insane!!! Love the weathering you made! Great job

That is a really really good finish 👏 thank you for posting BRILLIANT WORK

Excelente trabajo, felicitaciones 👏👏👏👏👏👍👍

Beautiful!

Excellent build, well done 👍🏻🇬🇧

Excellent model building! I agree with other posters. Just good construction work and great additional details!

Wowzers! It's amazing how you made something that's all black so interesting to look at love the depth in it

Woah that's a huge kit! Well done.

ITS A MASTERPIECE MY FRIEND, AAAAAA++++++++++

This kit may be based on new molds, but I am disappointed by the lack of detail in the undercarriage bays and cockpit. The cockpit doesn't expose much detail with the canopy closed, but if the lids are left open, Revell's weakness is apparent. I liked the tone of the outer skin, but you added a little too much dust for my taste. I have seen 3 retired SR 71's, and my written resources describe how these planes were pretty well taken care of. Regardless of these topics, I enjoyed the video. I plan to review your painting techniques, and use some of them, when I tackle the 1/72 scale kit I have.

trop bien la vidéo j'ai adoré le SR-71 est magnifique

very nicely done, sir...subbed

Great and beautiful job!!! 🤩🤩🤩

Amazing work, I lost count of the amount of different paints used. Subbed.

Great job!!!... I drive by the real one at Ft Walton Beach AF Museum... almost every day... This bird is very impressive!... and you conveyed this in your model... Again, great job!

I have the original Jetfire figure..Pretty cool transformer merges with Optimus

Wonderful

Great build! I had the first version as a kid in the late 70s... was molded in black PS which sorta made things a lot easier...

Excellent job !

Wow 👍 Great work!

Your channel was recommended by RU-vid so I watched before bed last night. I am impressed with your skill, artistry and attention to detail. I am now a new subscriber and happy to see more of your work.

Great video and awesome paint job 👌! Keep up the great work

insanely good job, dude!

Another great video from a great channel. The detail is excellent and the workmanship is just as good as their previous awesome stuff. I bought the older version from Revel and painted it all silver. It sits on my desk and keeps me company. Even the cat likes it, staring at it. Perhaps she wants to be a pilot? These are my 3 favorite aviation books: - Strike Eagle by William Smallwood - The Complete Book of the SR-71 Blackbird by Richard Graham - Great Fighter Jets of the Galaxy 1 by Tim Gibson

Wow amazing job taking a somewhat bland looking aircraft and upgrading it into a masterpiece! Love the sun spotting technique I did that on a P61 and loved how it came out

Beautiful build Love from Russia..uraa🔥

Awesome build hope mine turns out as good as yours

Very Nice Sir Very Nice indeed 👍 👌 👏.

Absolutely amazing work. I know mine won't look anything near as awesome as yours, but thank you so much for sharing! Great video and excellent tips and tricks. I learned a thing or two, that's for sure!

great job!

Just a tip: For applying liquid cement I've been using Touch-N-Flow applicator available from Micro-Mark (U.S.) and elsewhere. This is a pipette with a VERY small stainless tube at the end. You just need to be careful to avoid clogging the tiny tube. Deluxe Materials (U.K.) has a similar product called "Pin Flow Applicator". You may have used some liquid cement bottles with a stainless tube already on it. Those tubes are huge (too huge for delicate work) compared to the Touch-N-Flow or Pin Flow Applicator. Another tip: I don't fill it per the instructions. Instead, I temporariy push on a piece of airplane fuel tubing with a squeeze bulb on the end of the glass pipette to "suck" the liquid up through the stainless tube into it. I find it much faster. How cementing works with this is that you just touch it to a seam or joint and the cement wicks in by capillary action as needed. Due to the small size, you have excellent control, and it is impossible to have cement come out quickly. (Note: Only useful for liquid plastic cements, cannot be used with CA or epoxies.)

Very nice build. You put a lot of work into it. It's a shame you have not seen the real aircraft in person so you could have gotten a few things closer to what she really looks like. Again, great build and loved your details.

Just AWESOME! Thank you. I wish I could buy one of your Builds!

I wish they made a 1/32 scale.

Stunning build! Beautiful black surface made...I just what do you do with the models once they're finished... cheers from Argentina!

awesome mate!

👍👍

Would be nice if you could talk during the build

Awesome build! Just got the model after seeing a blackbird in the USAF museum in Ohio. I don't have any experience with making model kits, but always dreamed of doing one. Do you think it's possible for me to do this model successfully? Was looking for equipment recommendations and tips.. Thanks!

The video is excellent. Thanks for sharing the tips. In the video [1:43], what is the diameter of the metal wire which is used to create the landing gear tubing? Thanks.

She's a big girl!

Nice, subbed 😉👍

Nice video...where did you get the mat/holder for your glue?

Brilliant. What is the clear liquid with a UV light you use for glass in the cockpit?

Hi, great job! Where did you get the "No Step" stencils from?

Heh. I attempted to build the Estes model rocket of this plane, back in my youth.... What an absolute piece of crap that was, and it just made me want to some day do a proper kit like the one here in this video.

i would expect better interior and exterior details for a new mold kit of that price.

Great job! Where did you get the stencil?

Great build there, but I've got a stupid question there seems to be two Revell SR-71s on the market now, Revell Germany, and a Revell-Mongram USA, which kit did you build.

Its HARD to make a Revell kit look good.. you did a beautiful job!! btw.. that mold looks like a old mold.. is really a new kit from Revell?

At 03:00 and 03:07 … why does the paint have a ‘mottled’ look to it? Is this how the actual plane looks, or is this how the spray ends up? I’m just starting to get back into modeling after 30 years, and will start using an airbrush.

This is a really beautiful model. One question: How do you feel about the kit not including the pilot and co-pilot? I haven't built anything like this in many years. Was hoping people would be included. Thanks for any thoughts you care to offer. (Maybe all kits are like this these days?)

Hi, great job. You use a mask at 16:37 for some effect on the painting. Is it homemade?

do you think the initial pre shade survived the black on top of it and the pre-shade that came after (with that masking thingy)? also, at 18:20, is the brush soaked with enamel thinner?

Is this really new built, or a reworking of the old Testor's kit

What airbrush do you use?