Italeri 1/48 U2-S Dragonlady [Full Build Review]

A lot of work was put into this huge bird!
I definitely underestimated the size of the U-2 I think I should have gone with a smaller scale, I don't know where I am going to be displaying it.
Painting black aircraft is always challenging, but I found my way to make the painting look interesting enough, there's nothing that a bit of Tamiya XF-63 German Gray can't do.
The quality of the kit is poor, needs a lot of putty and sanding to make it look decent, and nothing seems to fit nice, If the bad molds weren't enough, I decided to go the extra mile and make the conversion for the U2-S variant of the Dragonlady, being the most modern and used in service right now, definitely a very interesting aircraft, but I don't know If I will build another one in the future.
- René Martínez
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[@FABIUSMAXIMUZ]

Amazing job dude!

[@craigwest8386]

You brought this "old lady" to life. Very nice job on a very old kit.

[@monkey555500]

looks fab..top work,i'll be using some of your ways when i build mine deffo

[@brianc1701]

Great job, especially on all the detail work in the cockpit and rescribing the whole kit. Very creative use of blue tac on the ejection seat and instrument panel coaming! Thanks.

[@supermoix]

Excellent! Well executed build on a classic kit.

[@christophercarran4164]

Stunning! I picked one up in my local hobby store a few weeks back, held it in my hand contemplated life, then put it back on the shelf. After building the F-117 and watching your amazing work, along with the scratchbuilding which I love to do, I'm going to go back and add this dragonlady to my stash. Love your work!

[@4707N0703E]

Thank you for your advice with achieving this famous black color of the U2

[@TheModelerChronicles]

Awesome job! Rescribing panel lines on older kits sure is a lot of work but it really paid off on this one. You nailed the paint job on this one too. Black is really hard to do and make it not look like a toy. Amazing! Thanks for sharing :)

[@prflyr]

Simply outstanding work!

[@dekon70]

Great job! I really like your techniques for painting a black aircraft. I am going to try this on an F4U-5N that I have.

[@darthhokum]

Perfect 👍

[@DutchDaveModels]

That's a lot of wingspan in 1/48. Nice build!✨👍

[@SketoThanos]

This looks like an incredible kit to build for sure! I mean, okay it has its bad side but the same applied for the Revell SR71, I read way too many hate comments on that one but still bought it and it was really good! I would love to build this one!

[@jcr7657]

Saludos desde Venezuela. wow que excelente trabajo, me gusto mucho La mejora del cockpit y el detalles de llevarlo a bajo relieve. si algún día haces otro, seria genial ver como se bajan los flap, guardo tu video para preparar los de testor que tengo de este bello U-2. gracias por compartir.

[@HammerheadModelMaking]

Nice video. I have this kit in my stash and will be building it soon, your video will be helpful!

[@lawtongore7053]

Excellent work....I had the opportunity to see one while taxing out to the runway while traveling back to the US..... they're pretty spooky looking even back then lol...

[@SprueFascinationChannel]

Very nice result.

[@johnoconnor9077]

Wow that's awesome well done

[@williammitchem8274]

Fantastic..I did learn alot. Thank you.

[@dokt_ERR]

Hey man, I've the same kit but U-2R senior span edition. I'll build as per your video, thanks a lot!