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If i remember correctly the drive sprockets are a bit different and drives the track with two rows in the middle. As I mentioned I did find metals tracks for the kit but I never bought them. I think this could be the ones: https://www.scalemates.com/kits/spade-ace-models-sat-35901-metal-track-efgf-m61a5--553043 I have never had a problem with melting vinyl tracks. I glue them in place and use a good primer (in this case Ammo One Shot) before painting and weathering. Metal tracks are nicer though 😀

I used the original tracks, though I had thoughts of replacing them. Not that much of them is visible so I white glued them to each wheel and painted them in place. I remember that I did find aftermarket metal ones, most likely from China. At least not one of the better known brands.

From the top of my head, I think there was resin included in the kit. Nevertheless the remaining memory is poor fit, loads of filler and off scale scale. The MustHave kit is a much more pleasant company.

Oh, difficult to tell, did not really count the hours. Around four months of weekends only, plus Christmas holidays, including some full days when the ‘weather’ allowed it 😆 Detailing actually took a while and so did painting the figures. I also spent a lot of time on interior details that I thought would be way more visible than they turned out to be... Another quite time consuming part was broadening the wheels. The ones used was both narrower and had a smaller diameter than the original ones. The exterior paint job was quite straight forward though. I’d say 30 hours spread over two weeks from primer to weathering. Painting the dio was done in a day as nature colours blend wet. I really enjoyed the new dry brush paint from the Spaniard, used them for the firts time on the dio 👌 Grass, bushes and so on was added the day after.

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Hi folks, A project just for fun. I had the the Bandai 1/35 M61A5 Semovente Main Battle Tank on the shelf and decided to modify it a little and make a small diorama to go with it. I moved around kit parts, added left over parts from the spare box, various scratch built and different resin parts to create a heavy infantry support vehichle. Figures are from Live Resin, Master Box, Airborne Miniatures and Yufan. I moved heads around and added equipment parts here and there. I made a complete interior and engine compartment with a mixture of resin parts and scratch built details. Plenty of space to play around with, the original kit is quite big. Everything is painted and weathered with paints from Valejjo and Ammo Of Mig, weathered using products Ammo Of Mig and AK-Interactive. Thanks for looking Cheers! /Fred

Very very nice in deed, and a subject rarely seen, top job! Cheers /Fred

Thank you! Yes, it builds really well. I personally think Revell kits are really worth the money. I have previously build their F-86D. I used a led clay product from Uschi van der Rosten called Three Green. It conforms well into the small spaces around the intake.

Thank you Nils, Tøffe Tom would not have been built if it was not for your excellent work. Keep it up👍

The Vingtor decals are very thin and crisp, just the way I like them. They only need a few seconds in luke warm water so work with one at the time. I used only a tad of softener. Just keep in mind that there are a lot of ‘2’ and ‘3’ in some serials if you choose to build a plane from your own references. The KASL resin is very nice detailed and without bubbles. It is a bit tricky to keep the right shape on the plastic wing to get the perfect fit with the resin part. Nothing a little patience fixes though.

Thank you for the comment and the attachment. Just love this site, so much knowledge. I will keep it in mind for the next build.

Thnx! Actually it was new to me as well and it took a while to figure out how the inner tanks were attached to the wings.

Ok, thank you for telling, love the knowledge around here. I just followed the instructions 🙂

That is a very very nice build, just brilliant!

Thnx! Yep, the Vingtor sheet 48-103. They are really good 👍🏻

Hi folks, Here are a few pictures of my F-84-F40 Sabre from 338 Sqn, RNoAF Ørland, in 1963. I used the Revell Canadair Sabre Mk.6 kit and added some extras, including a Martin Baker seat (from Eduard's F-8 Crusader) I also used KASL Hobby's slats and flaps together with wheels from Eduard. The very nice and thin decals are from Norwegian Vingtor. She is painted with Alclad2 and Gunze, and weathered with Ammo of Mig products. It was just a pleasant build all the way 🙂 Thank's for looking, I hope you liked it 🙂 Cheers! //Fred

Hi, Recently finished my RCAF Canadair Sabre from 427 Sqdn. I used the Academy F-86F-30 kit OOB except for the Aires seat and True Details wheels. The Leading Edge decals turns it into a Hard Wing F-86-30 style from Zweibrücken, Germany in 1957. The tail markings is from the Weapons Meet Cazaux, France. Unfortunately the decals had a tendency of silvering. Painted with Mr.Paint and weathered with Ammo of Mig products. Thanks for looking 🙂 //Fred

I use Aclad II primer (black in this case) and their enamel gloss black base. Primer is sanded/polished with fine mesh and so is the base. It depends, mostly I go free hand holding a post-it as mask. If using maskung tape i make sure it is not to tacky, often used two or three times alreday. I use quite a lot of paint, though spraying it thin but several layers. Try it over a shiny part and compare it with sprayed directly onto black or grey. Quite a different effect.

Ok, here we go. New hardpoints made and added, old ones removed and some touch up painting done.

Used Alclad II. First a black base, then Chrome (or Polished Aluminium depending on how clean the finished look should be) as the shiny base. I have learned that this is one way of getting depth and a ‘real’ metal look. First used it on a J35B Draken a few years back. Leave it to dry at least 24hrs, preferably longer, before altering panels (on this one with Polished, Airframe and Duraluminium). The ‘grey’ mid-section of the wings and the upper part of the fin is Dull Aluminium. Sprayed thin layers always on the upper range of recommended psi and with a 0,4 needle. Other colours are added on top of the aluminium. All covered with Light Sheen clear cote after weathering. To me the best for ‘glossy’ clean planes.

Thank you for your kind words In deed the Revell and the Special Hobby Dog's look quite funny together. I am sorry to say, but being the second kit I've built from Special Hobby I cannot see myself buying another one. The soft plastic in combination with thick round (!) corners requires a lot of work with filler and sanding, and not necessarily the kind of work you want to put in. I prefer improving a kit rather that making the parts fit. Perhaps I am a bit cranky here, still I liked the challenge to prepare it for the NMF but there are simply to many great kits out there, kits that in the end turn out better results. Having that said I do like their efforts providing us with kits like the SAAB Viggen. Well, this one is finished now and there is a gap in the stash that needs filling so I have ordered the MustHave F-86K From what I have read it is Revell based and pretty good, It will be interesting to crack the box open when it arrives. When built it will be a kit in RNoAF livery this time.

My cave has turned into some kind of Sabre plant with three finished and the Academy F-86F-30 (slowly turning into a Canadair Mk.5 look alike) drying on the table. I was not much in the favor of the Sabre before I started building them. I guess I have changed my mind... I also have my fingers crossed for Revell, well detailed, affordable, I like them a lot.

Hello, Here are a few pictures of my F-86D Sabre Dog in Yugoslav Air Force livery. I hope you like it I used the Revell kit and Cutting Edge decals kit to represent 14105 from the Yugoslav Air Force. I also used white metal landing gears together with wheels and PE from Eduard. The parachute housing is scratch built (yes I bought the wrong Revell kit - the one without the housing ). This kit builds like a dream, excellent fit and in my opinion nicely detailed from the box, including the pilot figure. The Cutting Edge decals and Montex masks where excellent to work with. The original North American F-86D Sabre Dog was based at the Yugoslav Air Force Academy, VNC (Vazduhoplovno nasdavni centar) in Sombor during the early 70’s. The Runway in Sombor was destroyed by NATO forces in 1999, but I actually think the base itself is still in use. There is a debate whether the color on the nose is blue, black or something in between and as far as I know there are only b/w pictures of the actual plane so there you go... I went for the blue option choosing the same blue as in the air force insignia. I used Aclad II Chrome as base and made some slight panel variations to an air frame I have chosen to be overall quite clean (it looks like it is very well maintained on the pictures I have seen). The rest of the colors used are Gunze and Ammo, weathered with Ammo products. Thanks’ for looking! /Fred

Hi folks, Here are a few pictures of my Luftwaffe F-86K Sabre Dog. For once I decided to build someting OOB, and here she is. JE-120 was a Fiat manufactured plane stationed with 3./WaSLw, Oldenburg, Germany around 1960. As mentioned, it is the Special Hobby kit built OOB except for CMK resin wheels and some detailing on the landing gears. I also used the kit decals and they where to be honest absolute crap. The wear and tear on the lettering was not made on purpose... This is neither the best kit nor the easiest of builds as it comes with a rater poor fit, especially in the joint between wings and fuselage. But with some fiddling, a little patience and a lot of filler it will eventually builds up. The Sabre Dogs were later camouflage painted, but in 1960 the planes were still in NMF. To represent the NMF I have used Alcald II Airframe Aluminum as base with some slight variations. I finished off with a light weathering using Ammo products. Thank you for looking. Cheers! /Fred

That is just brilliant my friend. Thank you for sharing feed-back, knowledge and help. Without your doubts, perfectly based on your own experience, I would probably never seen this picture This is why I love the hobby and this forum, you will always get help and constructive feedback, no matter if it is the subject itself or the techniques used. This way, things that are not real (but better or worse interpretations), gets a place in history portraying what once was. If I may share a little story. I have mentioned growing up with J35D Drakens flying above, I alwas was impressed by their bombload as a young boy. The memories of the sun reflecting on the two bare metal bombs under the belly as the planes turned for landing just above the school yard. Well, they are not bombs but external fuel tanks...but that is something I learned very much later