F-86 Sabre, Indian Air Force **FIISHED** pics pg. 5

[TheChronicOne]

What if the Indian Air Force used the F-86 instead of .... whatever? 




This SHOULD be an easy building kit.

Paint scheme? Something like this.


Antonis Karadis

[JayBee]

A most interesting idea. In the 1965 Indo/Pakistani war we would have seen Sabre against Sabre combats. What might the results have been?

[PR19_Kit]

I reckon a Sabre would have won.............. 

[TheChronicOne]

 


On that note, I'm back to fix a mistake I made. I'm using "stuff" from a MiG-21 decal sheet but my question is wrong; the Sabre wouldn't be swapped out with a MiG-21 but rather whatever they had in the 50's I guess. Not that they couldn't have still been in operation by time the 21s were introduced but that the Vampire or something is probably more likely what would be "swapped out" with a Sabre. 

[PR19_Kit]

Most likely Ouragons, or Mystere IVs later on?

[TheChronicOne]

Thanks!!! I don't know a heck of a lot about the Indian Air Force so I suppose this will be a good opportunity to learn some new stuff. That's one of the cool side effects of the hobby.

[TallEng]

I think you'll find that the Indian Air Force flew Hawker Hunters in the time frame you are thinking of.
Funnily enough the Indians ordered Hunters the same time as Pakistan ordered Sabre's.
Around about 1958. They were camouflaged in the standard RAF Dark sea grey/Dark green with high speed silver
Undersides.
So if the Indians had Sabre's does that mean Pakistan had Hunters in your Time Line?

Regards
Keith

[zenrat]

Hunter vs Sabre.  Who wins?

That's a very old boxing of that mould BradC.  Might even be the original '66 release.

[TheChronicOne]

Hunters was another I was thinking of when I was also thinking of Vampires. But.....    I rather like the mirror-match idea like Jim was talking about. Maybe through some weird chain of events we have Sabre duels!  Seems pretty fitting if you ask me!

Yeah this kit thing here looks pretty old.... that's pretty sweet to know it could be one of the first runs!    bonus is the parts should be nice and crisp, what with being from fresh moulds and all. The box is weird.... not the two part affair but the more flimsy "folded ends" type. Good to rescue an old kit and somewhat of a novelty to build up an "original" or whatever. 



EDIT:   mixed up my three letter names.

[TheChronicOne]

Well now.. this is just cool.  It may be par for the course for many but I personally have never had a kit with a pilot moulded right into the ejection seat like this. I dig the hell out of this.




Terrible picture, sorry. I'll have a better one once I paint it. 

[DogfighterZen]

Side-opening box? Mine is the two part deal, but i've noticed the differences, mine was packed in Englad by Halles. Where your box has the minicraft logo, mine ha the halles one. No idea of which one is older.

[PR19_Kit]

A A Hales were the original Hasegawa distributors in the UK, and did a pretty good job of it as I recall. They were VERY good in providing review kits. 

[The Wooksta!]

Didn't that kit end up in  Frog box for a time when Hasegawa and Frog had their tie up?

[PR19_Kit]

Didn't that kit end up in  Frog box for a time when Hasegawa and Frog had their tie up?

I'm not 100% sure. The FROG Sabre didn't have any wheel wells, so does that one?

[Dizzyfugu]

Oh, a potential interpretation of IAF C992, a phantom aircraft that only exists on B/W pictures, at best, with SO many suggestion what this Fishbed might have actually looked like. 

At first you had my curiosity, now you got my attention.