Tuesday, 9 July 2013

Sabre rattling

As there was a possibility that the Portuguese air force might show up in Operation Vijay, I dug out this old 1/300 F-86 Sabre (which I think is a Skytrex casting) and slapped on a bit of paint.  The markings were something of a challenge to paint in this (or any?) scale but the thing emerged looking Sabre-esque and clearly not Indian.  Which was good enough.
For a photo of a real (better painted!) Portuguese F-86 have a look here.  Apparently their last Sabres were retired as recently as 1980.
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6 comments:

  1. Paul9 July 2013 at 23:05

    good skills on the markings. No G91's in stock?

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  2. Al10 July 2013 at 07:16

    Cool, one of my all time favourite jet aircraft

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  3. Tim Gow10 July 2013 at 08:16

    Paul
    No spare G91s in that scale - and the Portuguese didn't get them 'till the mid 1960s.

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  4. Tim Gow10 July 2013 at 08:18

    Al
    Glad you,like it. I must have a nicer model somewhere.

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  5. Milgeek10 July 2013 at 09:18

    Portuguese? Sounds like an interesting senario...I'm intrigued! :)

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  6. Paul10 July 2013 at 12:54

    1960's...My boo boo!

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