Monogram North American F-86F-30
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Spanjaardexcellent result and really good fotos, specially the black and white ones! the last one is really nice, pitty the modern car vehind 😉
Gary BrantleyThanks Spanjaard! No, I like that modern pickup back there. It makes it look like a restored Sabre is visiting our little airport. Or, at least I hope that's how it looks...🙂
Gary BrantleyThanks my friend! Sometimes I do get lucky with the pics. The magic of digital photography, don't ya know? Take 50 pics, and two come out great. Thank goodness for digital cameras!!! 🙂
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As designers will tell you, if it looks right, it is right. Well, the North American F-86 Sabre just really looks right. Really right. With its sleek swept wings the Sabre was an elegant warplane. North American had started the XP-86 project in 1945 and when German data(and engineers) became available post-war, the design adopted swept wings, settling on 35 degrees. The first production P-86A flew on May 18, 1948, several months after the MiG-15, its classic rival and adversary in countless dogfights in “MiG Alley” during the Korean War. In addition to its pleasing aesthetics, the Sabre is one of the most-produced warplanes, with 9,502 built by North American as well as licensed versions built in Japan, Canada, Italy and Australia.
Here’s the Monogram 1/48 version that was boxed in combination with a MiG-15 in 1987. My plane bears the markings of Capt. Charles McSwain. His plane was “Mike’s Bird”, an F-86F-30 of the 39th FIS/ 51st FIW, Korea, summer of 1953. I finished this model in SnJ aluminum with some pa