This will be my ninth Sabre. This one will be all red in the colours of the Fireball aerobatic team

Louis

That looks like an F-86 Sabre to me! I'd like to build one of those for my brother sometime. He likes them in natural metal with the large yellow and black bands on them.

What kind of wood are you using? It doesn't look like your usually pine to me.

Are you planning on having it done by August 10th or is your time zone in Canada a month ahead? 😆

This one is made from recycled mahogany baseboards from renovations I did in 2019. I wanted something simple for a summer build, as my children are visiting until mid-Aug.

Louis

Ooh, mahogany! Very nice. Are you going to paint it or keep it natural wood? I imagine the mahogany would look very nice all smoothed and polished up.

My talent rarely includes doing a nice bare wood finish. It will be Red

Very striking color scheme! I look forward to seeing it complete.

Fruitful afternoon.

Louis

Nice progress! How will you attach the horizontal stabilizers?

I will butt-joint the stab. I have tried to notch them with little success.

Louis

All glued and puttied

Louis

Great progress! You're a quick builder, Lou!

First primer coat.

That didn't take long at all. Nice work!

Thank you. It is an easy sunject to model.

Louis

I'm considering doing an F-84. Do you put any dihedral in the wings? The drawings I have make it look very slight, if it all.