jack52 Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 Hi gang, i want to start my 1/48 scale Ultra Sabre from CollectAire, but can't find any pics of the office. Except two pics of the ip on U.S.cockpits. Anyone have some good link ? Hans Quote Link to post Share on other sites
72linerlover Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 Hi, Hans Few days ago I came across a beautiful 1/32 biuld of the F-107: http://www.hyperscale.com/2009/features/f107a32fm_1.htm There aren't visible cockpit details, but you can try to enter in touch with that guy. Schönen Tag Euge Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jack52 Posted July 3, 2009 Author Share Posted July 3, 2009 (edited) bon giorno Euge ( Eugenio ? ), thanks for your reply. i'm digging for f-107 infos since a couple of weeks, and of course i found Frank Mitchells galerie. your 'appogiatura' is exactly what i did this noon. 'til yet he doesn't answer. may be he is on work, vacation, sleeping, or what ever ... kind regards, Hans Edited July 3, 2009 by jack52 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ChernayaAkula Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 (edited) No cockpit shots, I'm afraid, but there are two fairly extensive exterior walk-arounds on PRIME PORTAL. WA #1 and WA #2 Maybe THIS LINK is off some help as well. Shows the canopy opening mechanism.( albeit a bit grainy). Edited July 3, 2009 by ChernayaAkula Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jack52 Posted July 3, 2009 Author Share Posted July 3, 2009 (edited) hi Moritz, den walkaround von PrimePortal kenne ich natürlich schon, aber der dritte link ist Gold wert. ein foto zeigt endlich mal den bang seat deutlich. DANKE !! Hans Edited July 3, 2009 by jack52 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ben Brown Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 Hi Hans, I can't find any pics online, but Ginter's Air Force Legends book on the F-107 has everything you ever wanted to know about the F-107. Rocket Aero has a good DVD about it, too: http://www.cybermodeler.com/hobby/video/ra..._ra_f-107.shtml A few things I remember from my build of the kit: -The canopy clear parts are a pain in the neck to fit correctly. -The seat doesn't represent the real thing very well. I built some new details from scratch. -The resin on the lower aft fuselage is so thin, it flexes, which makes it hard to fill and sand the seam in that area. -The main gear wheels are wrong. They look like they came off of an F4U Corsair. -The kit's national insignia are the wrong size, so you might want to use some from an F-100 decal sheet. I can't remember, but I think the "USAF" and "U.S. Air Force" decals were undersized, too. -The kit decals are missing the three turbine warning stripes for the fuselage. -The main gear struts plug into resin sockets in the fuselage. Over the ten yours since I built mine, the main gear has slowly spread out. I keep expecting to come home one day and find the model on its belly. Cheers! Ben Quote Link to post Share on other sites
C-130CrewChief Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 It's sitting at the Pima museum! Any one in Tucson? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jack52 Posted July 3, 2009 Author Share Posted July 3, 2009 (edited) hi Ben, thanks for your reply. -The canopy clear parts are a pain in the neck to fit correctly. didn't check this til now, will see. -The seat doesn't represent the real thing very well. I built some new details from scratch. what seat/manufactorer is it ? i have one from AMS (Harold Offield) for Monograms F-100, think i can use this with some mods ? -The resin on the lower aft fuselage is so thin, it flexes, which makes it hard to fill and sand the seam in that area. YES SIR ! and three times : YES your other items. i will need to check out. decals, insignias i have a lot in my spare box, think this will not be a prob. but ancient pics show a bunch of stencils, nearly every panel or hatch wearing a hint whats underside. nothing of these is represented in CS's decal sheet. cause lack of fotos : impossible to do this job. hi Chief, we have a nice walkaround of ship no. xxx18 at Pima Air and Space Museum on PrimePortal, but no pics of the cockpit. think it is impossible, if one don't have a ladder to climb up. regards, Hans Edited July 3, 2009 by jack52 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
C-130CrewChief Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 When I was out there the old guys working were really cool. maybe if someone explanes to them why they need pics they will open the canopy after hours. They were willing to let me climb around the B-24 and B-17.. Cool guys! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ben Brown Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 Hi Hans, I forgot to mention the stencils. I've got an old sheet of black stencils for F-4 Phantoms I'm planning to use when I strip & repaint my F-107. The seat was a North American Aviation seat, but it was different from everything else they had. I combined modified kit parts with an Aeroclub white metal F-100 seat, so I would guess using one of Harold's seats as a starting point will look pretty good. Cheers! Ben Quote Link to post Share on other sites
X-Plane Fan Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 Maybe these will help. Tony Hi gang,i want to start my 1/48 scale Ultra Sabre from CollectAire, but can't find any pics of the office. Except two pics of the ip on U.S.cockpits. Anyone have some good link ? Hans Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ben Brown Posted July 4, 2009 Share Posted July 4, 2009 Wow! That's a great shot of the seat. It's an F-100D seat with a new framework on the back. Harold's seat would be a perfect starting point. Thanks for posting! Ben Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Harold Posted July 4, 2009 Share Posted July 4, 2009 I have never seen that seat before...way cool. Yeah, you can hack off the upper rear details and add the new stuff and it will look purty close. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jack52 Posted July 4, 2009 Author Share Posted July 4, 2009 Maybe these will help. Tony, you are the man ! great shots, seat, side panels, ip .. woow . thanks a lot for sharing. Hans Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Clumber Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 Zombie thread! I am briefly resurrecting this thread to ask X-plane Fan if he happened to have saved those images as those imgs are gone now and the originating site in question says "EdwardsFlightTest.com has closed down on April 25, 2014. Thanks to everyone that have purchased from us." Big gracias if someone happened to right-click save image! ~ Tracy (for her spouse, Jeni, who is washing the Trump F-107A sprues as I type!) (I'm still plugging away on my HB F-111C Pig) Maybe these will help. Tony Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ben Brown Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 Hi Tracy and Jeni! I don't know what the original photos in the post were, but here are some I found somewhere, years ago. They're US Gov pics, so we shouldn't have to worry about copyrights & such. Looks like the jet in the photos is missing it's attitude indicator. In answer to your other post, the cockpit was standard Dark Gull Gray. BTW, 15 years on and my Collect Aire F-107's main gear still hasn't collapsed under the weight of all of that resin! :D/> HTH. Ben Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Clumber Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 THANK YOU, Ben! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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