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Didn't the Cougar fly in Viet Nam? And to your point, I seem to recall a story about an F-102 getting shot down by a MiG, if that isn't flying in combat, I don't know what was. As to the 101, how about the RF-101? The only Century series bird that didn't flying in Viet Nam was the 106. Although it only deployed overseas once to Osan AB during the Pueblo capture/crisis. The F-86A offering looks very nice, but I would love to see the 86H in 1/48. Bryan

Some where I have an old Cutting Edge 4B conversion... I'm not sure how many folks realize how "colorful' the liners of an F-4 engine is. Shot inside the hanger was an F-4D from the DC ANG, show with the Smily Face was a VMFA-321 bird. I think it would be a riot if someone did this for a competition bird. You can only wonder what the judge would be thinking when he sticks his nose and flashlight into the nether regions of the Phantom.... The colors appear to vary between FS 34183 and FS 14223. To a Blue Grey on other AC. I think the material is a cerami

I have this sheet - did You have any other Tomcat decals for trade??

We used the breakaway copper safety wire to secure the doors in the 58's. Every time I went into a "display" I would unplug the battery. I got into a 58 at display at an A&P program, and someone had pulled every single circuit breaker on the overhead panel. And they were only guaranteed for around 2 cycles.... Turn you back to hit the head and all heck breaks loose. From then on, I left the doors on. Bryan

Thanks, it's nice to finally make some time to get back on the bench. As luck would have it, this build will get changed to another squadrons markings, or set aside while I break out another kit. Got a request from MAG-31 yesterday to build a Hornet for their CO's change of command on 28 June!

In my opinion, open gun bay is so prominent that I find it odd to forgo this main feature. Dai

Not odd: open slats; open speed brakes; separate control surfaces. Where to end? The aftermarket will do something I'm sure. I'm not a fan of open gun bays since they aren't ubiquitous. Open canopy, speed brakes or dropped flaps more so.

Yes, the switch to blow the canopy side panels had a thin copper color safety wire to keep the crew from accidental activation of the system. This would get replaced by safety wire for static display appearances so some inquisitive child setting in a cockpit couldn’t accidentally engage the switch and blow the canopy side windows. Also we would at times disconnect the aircraft battery. Steve Sliger Greenwell Springs, LA

Here are some more views of the new Clear Prop 48th scale F-86A. Nice details visible and another view of those transparent parts. Best regards Gabor

Thanks all. I now have a good starting point.

I've built the Collectaire kit and have a second one somewhere in the stash but would buy one or two injection F-86H kits in a heartbeat if they ever came out with one. That's one of those kits that ranks right up there with a new injection molded F11 Tiger in 1/48.

Sabrejet, I find closed gun bays to be quite odd. Can you chime in? Dai

I would have been happy to go with the original plastic exhaust. Actually if comparing the Meng and the Zukei-Mura kits, there just one thing that I like in the Meng kit and that is the exhaust! They are made of several parts and so the internal details of the petals is provided, while that in the Z-M kit is fairly plain unfortunately. On other counts in my opinion the Z-M kit wins. Will see what to use. I do have several set of those stunning 3D printed gear legs. Will look at using it. Best regards Gabor

Would love to see some. WI ANG markings... They went from the A to the H in the early 1950s

about exhaust for ZM

I haven't tried assembling the slats, but the wing leading edges (without slats) are separate parts, so adjustment of any gaps shouldn't be difficult. I'd imagine that if you leave out the wing leading edge part and glue the slats directly to the wing, you'd get a pretty decent 'slats closed' config. The kit allows for lots of options without much hassle. The gun blast panels are another example of intelligent design: there is a backing piece (inserted from inside the fuselage) which forms the inner part of the 'open muzzle' version, with the blast panels then attached externally.

Thanks a lot for the clarifications. I think i have a PE part somewhere that resembles the two pane. Otherwise ill have to scratch-build this somehow, in 1/72 it would be challenging

Hasegawa ea-18g 40.00 Italeri A-10c with eduard PE 45.00 Hobby boss A-10a with aires pit, engine corrections, 45.00 Trumpter EKA-3 with hyperscale engines and d-mold nose correction. (tje canopy in the correcton needs polished, it came that way 75.00 Buyer pays shipping. I ship with pirate ship for the lowest rates. Please contact me off board, bbinder1453@att.net Might be open to trades??

At a great stopping point on the Saraf while I wait on some parts to arrive by snail mail. Apparently, Takom forgot to model the armored plating on the bottom of the ships that most apaches are equipped with, so I have new pieces being fabricated for that as well as new landing gears. Meanwhile, I fixed the tail section from the E that was crushed under my flashlight a few weeks ago and it came out better than it was before. Its nice to have a spares box when you can afford it... I will likely have the E done in the next few weeks sans weapons. The E will not have removable weapons

Hi all, Honestly the F-86H like the P-51H is something not something highly desirable by the crowd. Correct if I am wrong or right. Dai

Hi all, Great new release! But why on earth the weapon bays are NOT open? Dai

Not a well kept secret - he's been a treasure for us Sabre fans for many moons. Duncan, what's the scheme for slats in versus slats out to eliminate the dreaded slat troughs? Sorry if I missed that it's already been discussed. Gene K

When someone decides the demand is sufficiently more than the kit kit design, tooling and production costs to justify the investment.

There are two other established threads on the subject already. One in the Jet Modeling subforum and the other in the Caracal Decals one.

Hi Gabor, I bought the Reskit afterburners for my current Z-M build, but decided not to use them. The kit burner parts have a tab at the aft end that fits into a spot in the lower fuselage so everything is positively located. The Reskit burners don't have anything like this and I didn't want to have to engineer some sort of cradle to keep them in place. Plus there are no instructions on exactly where to make your cut in the burner cans to fit the Reskit parts, so there will have to be a lot of test fitting and adjusting before you permanently close up the fuselage. They do look gre