1/72 Canadair F-86 Mk 4................................(Completed 8 August 2014)

[lastvautour]

Started my latest Sabre. I need to pay greater attention to shaping the forward fuselage/intake area.


Lou

[cliff strachan]

Lou, I see that you've got a "nail clipper" and a "clothes pin with a rounded piece (probably) glued on to part of the clothes pin." What do you use them for?
Cliff.

[lastvautour]

Hi Cliff. The cloths pin is just resting there. I do have a couple glued to 12 inch sticks to hold small pieces away from my hand when spraying paint/primer. The nail clippers are straight edge rather than the curved version. It is great for cutting toothpicks and other small pieces of wood or plastic. When the get dull, replace them as they crush soft wood such as balsa rather than cutting it.

Lou

[cliff strachan]

Thanks Lou. Something I've never thought of. There's much to be learnt from Solid Scale.
Cliff.

[lastvautour]

Red primer followed by sanding and then grey primer. PRU Blue makes up the bottom colour of RAF Sabres.

Lou

[lastvautour]

Dark sea gray followed by dark green.

Lou

[Boomerang]

Lou,
Reference the Avon Sabre. I've also "borrowed" the youngest brother's Planes of Fame Vol 10.
This has a couple of good colour plates for the Avon and CL-13 Sabre Mk2.
I'll get some scans and send them to you. Won't be until the end of the month when I get back home
so I can use a scanner without interruption.

Gordon

[lastvautour]

Thank you Gordon, I look forward to them.

Lou

[lastvautour]

RAF 92 Squadron XB837 Canadair Sabre Mk 4 rolled out 8 August 2014. All decals were done in MS Word on my old Windows 98 PC because the printer does a better job. I also started using Tamiya decal solution and it sticks them done quite well but one must be careful not to use to much as it will badly wrinkle the decal. The normal process will show some minor initial wrinkling but that clears as things dry up.

Lou

[lastvautour]

The Sabre squadron is growing. I made one of my stands for the Strombecker model so it will be like the remainder of the F-86 fleet.

Lou

[lastvautour]

Oops. I noticed that the light grey on the fin top is incorrectly positioned giving the fin a rather awkward stance. It will be corrected tomorrow.

Lou

[Mark Braunlich]

Nice set of Sabres Lou.

[lastvautour]

Thank you Mark. Here is the revised tail feather paint and a set of so-so drop tanks. Although not very high on the to-do list, I want to try to do a better set of tanks for all the Sabres.

Lou

[buccfan]

Nice looking Sabre Lou. Regards Paul J.

[lastvautour]

Thank you Paul.

Lou