1/48 Lockheed SR-117 Dragon Star

Gallery Article by David Sim, aka archybean on Jan 7 2015

Silly Week 2015

 

      

Turns out the folks at Lockheed's Skunk Works are just like every modeler out there...they too have a spares bin! Looking through it one day the engineers decided to combine the extra parts into a "best of Skunk Works" if you will.

 

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Using the fuselage from a retired F-117 they were able to graft on wings from an SR-71 mock up. The nose from a wrecked P-80 was attached over the nose of the Nighthawk since it was mostly just a shell. The back end of a U-2 came from leftover parts on the assembly line.

Kit bash from 1/48 F-117, P-80, SR-71, and U-2.

David Sim

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Photos and text © by David Sim