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Airfix club Ltd Edition F-86F Sabre


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It's a blitzbuild, therefore no large kits, no complex camouflage, and no biplane rigging.  out goes the 1/24 GR3, the Viggen and the tiger moths I've been eying for the last 2 years....

 

I've got a whole bunch of cheap Lidl kits that I could make (109, 190, spit, hurricane, provost, gnat), but find myself pulling this out of the stash :

 

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I remember enjoying the Mig-15 build, and hope this will be as much fun.

 

I'm a brush painter, but just happen to have some rattle can silver - jobs a good un!

 

This was an Airfix club kit back in 2012 and came with membership and a badge...

 

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The only thing slowing down this build is likely to be the thousands of stencils...

 

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And, we're off!!

 

A 09:56 start...

 

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Managed to paint a chunk of the interior (enamels), and just waiting for that to dry a little before continuing.

 

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In the meantime, I can prep the fuselage and wings :)

 

 

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Aaaaaarrrrgggghhhhh!!!!

 

Knocked over my bottle of plastic weld all over my work area!  No damage to the model, but the gloss yellow didn't fare so well...

 

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I've now vacated the room for 30 minutes to let the fumes ventilate.

 

Grrrrrrr!

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Aaaaaaaarrrrrggggghhhh!  part 2.

 

I have now managed to squeeze half a tube of filler onto my jumper.  whilst squeezing, the bottom end of the tube split and shot it's contents all over my chest...

 

17:50 and it's all ready for a rattle can spray of silver!

 

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Finally got a decent coat of silver on the airframe and now onto decalling!

 

As expected, the large yellow fuselage bands are a pain, and the vertical red stripe (now in the bin) seems made for a different kit.  I've perservered on, and the kit is fully decalled (I've left off many of the smaller stencils to save my sanity).  Once the decals have settled a little, I've got a few details to paint then I'm almost there!

 

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I've just finished off a very tasty roast dinner, made a few detail changes to the Sabre, and finished off the bad job that the kids made of doing the washing up...

 

I'm calling the Sabre done for this blitzbuild, It's as good as I'm going to get it, without spending more a lot more time on it.

 

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Completed at about 19:45.

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