SUPER SABRE FG.1

kitbasher · April 12, 2015, 01:42:16 PM

Super Sabre FG.1 XF422 '81', 58 Sqn RAF Wittering 1974:

So I failed to finish my 1WGB Corsair but I think I've just made it to the finishing line in time for the 1 year GB with this one!

Nothing special - a very cheap and cheerful (and frankly rubbish) PM F-100 I've been pottering about with in the margins just to get an RAF Super Sabre out of my system!

Model is OOB other than the bobs (Matchbox generic British 1000 pounders plus SNEBs from an Airfix Hunter that's slowly taking shape. Colour scheme and markings are from Modeldecal sheet 28 - basically the Super Sabre (and not the Hunter) served with the RAF from the late 50s to the late 70s in a variety of roles, the last of which was as a weapons trainer in 1 Tactical Weapons Unit.

PR19_Kit · April 12, 2015, 02:10:23 PM

Looks damn good to me!

NARSES2 · April 14, 2015, 07:47:20 AM

Worked well

sandiego89 · April 14, 2015, 09:12:14 AM

Nice! Especially like the weapons fit and the "scorched" sections of the aft fuselage- tough to create, but important for an accurate "Hun".

Scale please? 1/72?

Geoff · April 14, 2015, 11:28:20 AM

Nicely done

kitbasher · April 14, 2015, 12:57:46 PM

Very generous comments gentlemen, thank you.

It is 1/72 and isn't a kit I'd recommend. For a tenner an ESCI F-100 is ideal whiffing or real world material, the Trumpeter kit I guess may be the best buy. Very much want to build a real world all-green Danish F-100.

Hardest part of this build was the burnt metal effect but this bit of practice was good to have if I ever get round to a 'real' Hun built.

DarrenP2 · April 14, 2015, 01:00:01 PM

interesting

Weaver · April 14, 2015, 01:53:27 PM

Nice work on the burnt metal, it looks really good.

Glenn Gilbertson · April 14, 2015, 03:15:32 PM

That looks really good. Excellent work on the tail discolouration.

Captain Canada · April 14, 2015, 07:30:18 PM

Love it ! Big fan of that aeroplane, and she looks great in those colours and markings. Love the weapons load as well. Kit looks kind of funny tho, almost like a French bird.

kitbasher · April 15, 2015, 02:39:16 AM

Quote from: Captain Canada on April 14, 2015, 07:30:18 PM
Kit looks kind of funny tho, almost like a French bird.

Well France did operate F-100s and there's a passing resemblance to the Super Mystere, which I always think is like sort of Super Sabre with a sort of Hunter tail and fin/rudder. And the Super Etendard completes is the missing link in the morphing of the F-100 into the Hunter. By which I mean F-100, Super Mystere, Super Etendard, Hunter.

ChernayaAkula · April 15, 2015, 03:06:55 AM

Lovely build!

A British F-100 looks just right.

zenrat · April 15, 2015, 03:09:12 AM

Like it. These always look to me like someone heavy sat on the intake.

Mossie · April 15, 2015, 08:30:04 AM

That's very nice, silk purse from a sows ear and all that. How'd you go about the exhaust staining?

Quote from: zenrat on April 15, 2015, 03:09:12 AM
Like it. These always look to me like someone heavy sat on the intake.

Saw one of these at Duxford, the intake looked like it was a hoover attachment.

kitbasher · April 15, 2015, 09:02:47 AM

Humbrol 56 base coat and then washes of that mixed with brown, red and black. Originally extended futher forward but I thought it looked a mess and very wrong, but that was the painting as the burnt look cane be much further forward.
Good practice though for a 'real' build, and actu panel lines will be an advantage! Also needs to be understated next time ( assuming there is one). But definitely good practice.