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Mr. Finishing Surfacer 1500 Gray here too. When I started making resin kits back in the 1980s, these primers weren't available and I used standard car metal primer from the rattle can for many years without any issues. I still have resin models I made circa 1986 and they show no issues 40-odd years later.

A series of NJ ANG F-86Es might be nice (Clear Prop's next issue should be vee-screen F-86E-1/5s by the way); does anyone know the identity of Waltzing Matilda? It has the added interest of an OD anti-dazzle panel.

'tis a pleasure 🙂

For the scheme and gun configuration shown (doors fixed open) then either option works. I'd leave it as it is (colour match looks good). There is also a prominent "PAINT ANTENNA PER SPEC....." stencil either side on this option. Decal should be in the kit.

Photo above was taken in Japan circa January 1951. The grey-painted radomes were gradually paint-stripped and left bare fibreglass with a painted-on cement-type protective treatment. The square gun muzzles were often fixed open (per 4th FGp directive) and later replaced entirely with the later 'open' oval blast-tube panel. There is in fact a lot of data available regarding this deployment, including the initial issues with gun doors and their subsequent de-activation.

Any chance of Ashtray and Haymaker RF-86A/RF-86F conversion sets?

It's ongoing 🙂

Due to be announced officially at Mosonshow today: latest F-86 variant from Clear Prop! - the F-86E-1/5 in 1/48. This should keep folks happy for a while!

Are you trying to do Doc in-period or in its 'modern' guise? Bear in mind that the aircraft was a target tug in period, so you'd need to add the under-fuselage tow gear if you're doing it as it was whilst in service.

I have an Airfix Bristol Bulldog in the plastic bag/stapled instructions and a Westland Scout in the same format. Both I suspect late 1960s. The Scout is a dog so won't get built but the Bulldog is an absolute stunner!

The bands were applied in Japan and to a set scheme; all meet at a point and the only (slight) deviation was that some bands are set slightly to the aft of others.

They come to a point. If you have the Clear Prop! kit, there should be a diagram included.

Same tooling but with a small extra sprue and new decals. The later boxings of the first release included all items to model all the main F-86A versions, including that later 'open' gun muzzles. Only a few in Korea had the aluminium intake ring and A-1CM gunsight but CP includes these anyway: none had the wingtip pitot tube.

Due in March 2025:

Here's an alternative take: section through the FJ-2 nose with centralised NLG main fitting but offset wheel bay. Horses for courses...