Shane's Sabre.

[shangos70]

Hobby Boss Sabre in West German markings. I've built this kit before in the Blue Impulse ones.
I may paint the nose and tail fin yellow and trim the decals.

[AndrewR]

I've done the Blue Impulse one too. Nice little kit. My decals were prone to splitting, unfortunately.

[TobyC]

Nice choice. Difficult to better the F86 for looks imgo

[shangos70]

Anyone know the correct cockpit colour for a Sabre? Black / grey or green? I've seen pics of all of them.

[AndrewR]

Anyone know the correct cockpit colour for a Sabre? Black / grey or green? I've seen pics of all of them.

Looks like light grey for a Luftwaffe bird:

http://cyberplasticmodeler.blogspot.ca/ ... h.html?m=1;

[shangos70]

Cheers Andrew.

[shangos70]

Priming done and wheel wells and airbrakes painted interior green. I will Paint the base colour for the pit and seat tonight.

[fredk]

On my thread Greg has told me to make sure there's plenty of weight in the nose as this is a real tail-sitter.

[shangos70]

Hi Fred, I built this one before and managed to keep it on its wheels. I think I used small wheel weights behind the cockpit after cutting off the long pegs.

[shangos70]

A few update pics.
Just a bit of basic painting on sub assemblies. Added 10grm in wheel weights behind the seat. Snipped off all the large pins to fit them in.

[iggie]

Looking good!

[shangos70]

Nothing much to report other than joining the 2 main halves and masking up the canopy. Hopefully I can get some primer on tomorrow evening.

[TobyC]

That's taking shape very nicely.

[shangos70]

Not much done, an hour or so over the weekend should see the nose ring on and painted yellow along with the tail leading edge.

[shangos70]

Nose ring and fin leading edge painted just in case the decals fail me.