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    1:48 J-8II Finback B PLA

    in Far Out, Far East! GB

    Posted · Edited by vesthepes

    Thanks guys!

    Last photos before putting it to gallery. Still have some details to take care off; the canopy, parts of the landing gear and finish it with a photo session.

    Unfortunately I haven't had enough time to finish the Sabre before the dead line. Took me a lot of hours these days to finish this one...

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    Thanks for looking in

    F-86E Philippine AF "dragon"

    in Far Out, Far East! GB

    Posted

    Thanks guys, I appreciate your comments...

    No major work on the cockpit. I only used a kit decal for the instruments on the IP. Not a perfect match with plastic dials below, but still ok enough.

    Thanks mungo1974 for showing us the photo. That's exactly the camo I'll be doing on the "Dragon". A lot of paint wear visible, no stencils and markings on sand color only... Thanks for the heads up Diego ;)

    1:48 J-8II Finback B PLA

    in Far Out, Far East! GB

    Posted

    Thanks for the comments guys.

    RKic, actually it is not pre-painted... I did it myself. And I know what you mean, I've seen some pre-painted Eduard PE I didn't like...

    Oh, the Finback is a real beast... when I thought Fitter is huge...

    Check out the beastie boys

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    F-86E Philippine AF "dragon"

    in Far Out, Far East! GB

    Posted · Edited by vesthepes

    Thanks chaps

    That's right B, this one had quite a funky camo...

    Thanks Diego. I am looking forward to start this... right now it is just basic analysis..

    The first thing that comes to mind are the different front wheels on Sabres... Dragon and other Philippinos had a full hub wheel. I'll take some photos of the one packed in the Revell box and the aftermarket ones... seems like they're all off.

    Yeah, the salt technique. I like that quite a lot... I've tried it before on a scuffed arctic red tail F-84G and I hope I pull it off on this one too.

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    cheers

    F-86E Philippine AF "dragon"

    in Far Out, Far East! GB

    Posted · Edited by vesthepes

    Hi everyone

    Besides the J-8II Finback I've decided to go with a second GB entry...

    It is going to be a Philippine Air Force F-86E painted in 3 tone camo used in COIN role in Mindanao in 1974 fighting MNLF rebel forces...

    Big thanks to Diego from Hi-Decal for many useful info regarding the mentioned subject...

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    cheers,

    Vasko

    1:48 J-8II Finback B PLA

    in Far Out, Far East! GB

    Posted

    Thanks Martin

    Ok, I have received the PE, traveled a bit more than a week from China to EU. Record time I guess...

    It isn't much, somewhat like the price... most of it is ladder, which kind of doesn't budge me.

    But the IP looks great and that's what I was looking for I guess.

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    1:48 J-8II Finback B PLA

    in Far Out, Far East! GB

    Posted

    Oh, that looks quite fine to me. Flatt white overall, please. ;-)

    ;) that's it, right?

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    I just couldn't resist waiting anymore longer for those PE parts to arrive, so I decided to start with the work not including the cabin...

    Yup, it's one of those kits...

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    Anyway, the inside of the exhaust looks weird anyway, and not much will be visible once closed up...

    A bit of masking tape is the easiest way to deal with this. In this case at least..

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    and the painting of the interior...

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    till next time...

    cheers

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