1/144 Dragon Lockheed U-2R Dragon Lady

Gallery Article by Björn Leichsenring on Sept 3 2013

 

 

Boasting a superb kit no. 4636 from Dragon, the U-2R Dragon Lady was born. The model is finely engraved and provides a very good basis to represent a beautiful plane.

 

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The cockpit has been slightly upgraded, open the airbrakes and shown the inner workings, all the flaps and rudder sawn off and placed in a different position and re-designed the big support wheels with new sheet metal.

Was painted with Revell Anthracite with a dash of white and a bright Washing with Pro Modeler. The aircraft flew its part in the 9th Reconnaissance Wings Stratetic.

Björn Leichsenring

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Photos and text © by Björn Leichsenring