Menelaos Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 (edited) Good Day folks the project above was started long ago (today I'm currently doing almost nothing due to missing time) and wanted to share some pics with you. The idea behind this, is to convert the century F-86F 1:18 into a proper F-86E(M) that was flown by the HAF in the 50es and 60es.. These Mk 2 Sabres were build from Canadair and were upgarded with the 6-3 hard wing but retained the V-shaped wind screen and equiped 3 Sqs (341, 342 and 343) plus the aerobatic team "Hellenic Flame" The ...toy is also available from adrmiral toys as a F-86E that has some better parts as the century toy but the century toy is far better. the admiral toys has a better cockpit and better main landing gear but is not acurate at the air intake region. The century toy has otherwise many more goodies such an air intake AB tube, accurate airbrakes, gun bays very nice sliding canopy So first work was to take everything apart Edited January 31, 2019 by Menelaos 109, sandokan, LSP_Kevin and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Menelaos Posted January 30, 2019 Author Share Posted January 30, 2019 next work was to make the leading edges of the all surfaces thinner, because there are too thick and use putty to cover some holes on the fusalage the airbrakes are not bad I drilled some holes there, but there's some work to be done to look right LSP_Kevin, KiwiZac, airscale and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Menelaos Posted January 30, 2019 Author Share Posted January 30, 2019 the landing gear legs of the century toy are too thin and the LG of the admiral toys is better sandokan, LSP_Kevin and 109 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Menelaos Posted January 30, 2019 Author Share Posted January 30, 2019 the front canopies (late version) is somehow not the best ones on both kits but admiral toys has the best one. But the F-86E(M) had the early V-shape canopy and this must be made from scratch TorbenD, airscale, sandokan and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airscale Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 great project! I didn't even know there was a 1/18 Sabre looking forward to this Peter Harold and Menelaos 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Menelaos Posted January 31, 2019 Author Share Posted January 31, 2019 the cockpits in both toys are ok but need far more detailing: Instrument panel in the century toy: and admiral toys: LSP_Kevin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Menelaos Posted January 31, 2019 Author Share Posted January 31, 2019 (edited) I used the cockipt of the admural toys ...toy... with far more details as the century toy cockpit and made the front instrument panel from scratch I copied first the instruments of the ereal cockpit and made the front panel from sheet styrene Century toy: Edited January 31, 2019 by Menelaos 109, LSP_Kevin and KiwiZac 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Menelaos Posted January 31, 2019 Author Share Posted January 31, 2019 (edited) the cockpit was painted in medium grey (later paint sheme, in the 50es everything was black...) The seat of admiral toys is much better. Here there are some thing missing but could be add easily Edited January 31, 2019 by Menelaos LSP_Kevin, Trak-Tor and KiwiZac 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Menelaos Posted January 31, 2019 Author Share Posted January 31, 2019 (edited) here are the data for the V-shaped screen (made by a fellow modeler) Edited January 31, 2019 by Menelaos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn M Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 i enjoy watching your projects, thanks for sharing this one too! Menelaos 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JolleyRoger Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 On 1/31/2019 at 12:22 AM, airscale said: great project! I didn't even know there was a 1/18 Sabre looking forward to this Peter Now that you know, possible future project? Menelaos 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Menelaos Posted February 2, 2019 Author Share Posted February 2, 2019 (edited) the color of the tail of the 3 HAF Sqs were red, yellow and green most interesting are the colors of the aerobatic team Hellenic Flame Edited February 2, 2019 by Menelaos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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