oortiz10 Posted June 21, 2017 Share Posted June 21, 2017 Hey ARC, Here's Monogram's venerable white boxing of their F-86 that I built for the Classic Kits GB. I built the kit to represent the F-86 flown by Burgess Meredith's character in the movie The Last Chase. I've never seen a Sabre built up in these markings, so I thought it'd be a nice change from the usual NMF Sabres. It was tough finding info about the airframe, but I was able to find this: "The aircraft was indeed loaned from Flight Systems - it was a Canadair Sabre 6, c/n 1600, built for the Luftwaffe. It first flew on 17Jun57, and served first with WaffenSchule 10 at Oldenburg, then as a civilian target tug as D9538 with Condor Flugdienst at Westerland on Sylt Island. After its flying career was finished it moved to technical school TSLw 3 at Fassberg. It was one of a number bought by Ormond Haydon Baillie in 1978, and after dismantling was stored briefly at Wroughton, UK. Haydon-Baillie was killed in a P-51 crash that year and the whole lot were sold to Flight Systems Inc., of Mojave CA. C/n 1600 was registered to them as N1039C in Apr79, and its appearance in film 'The Last Chase' came around November that year. The aircraft was re-registered N82FS in Oct81, and served FSI as a target tug for a while. It was then registered to Gerald A Smith & Connie L Smith/Smith & Sons Aircraft, Paso Robles, CA and was re-registered again, this time as N186JC in Jun93, and painted in Skyblazers c/s as '31186'. It was then sold to Steve Snyder, Lumberton NJ, who flew it at many airshows. Sadly Snyder was killed in the aircraft on 19 June 1999 at South Jersey Regional Airport during a low-level pass." (Source) Finding pictures that weren't screen shots was difficult, but I was able to find one profile photo of the real thing. Anyway, let's take a look at some pictures of my build. Anyway, feel free to share your comments. Thanks for looking! Cheers, -O Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Snowbird3a Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 Re; 'The Last Chase' ; The ground 'in the hangar' scenes were shot in Toronto using the only Canadair Sabre Mk3. (fun fact) I just happened to watch the movie a couple weeks ago via YouTube. Nice model, by the way :) Cheers, Tony Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fulcrum1 Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 Nice build! Never seen one before nor the movie.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JackMan Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 To this day, The Last Chase is still one of my favourite movies. I loved the flying scenes. Great job on the kit! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dnl42 Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 Bravo! Very cool markings! I'm used to movie posters depicting scenes not in a movie, maybe not even on the cutting room floor. But this one seems to be about a different movie with the same high concept... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nitehawk008 Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 Could You repost the Pics would love to see them Quote Link to post Share on other sites
oortiz10 Posted January 23, 2018 Author Share Posted January 23, 2018 On 1/21/2018 at 9:27 AM, nitehawk008 said: Could You repost the Pics would love to see them Here you go nitehawk008, these are for you... Cheers! -O Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nitehawk008 Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 Thanks Great work. I am currently working on my own version of this and will send you a heads up prior to my posting the finished work. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
oortiz10 Posted January 27, 2018 Author Share Posted January 27, 2018 Great! Looking forward to seeing it. Cheers, -O Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JP77 Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 Hi, I've got a friend who wants to build this for me, where did you get the tail fin logo? Is it an existing decal or custom? Great build btw JP Quote Link to post Share on other sites
oortiz10 Posted October 14, 2020 Author Share Posted October 14, 2020 Hey JP77, This was a fun build. I remember seeing this movie when I was a kid and loved the Sabre's markings. For mine, everything on it is paint. I freehanded the dragon onto some paper then transferred it to some tape to make my own mask. If you look at pictures of the plane or stills from the movie, you can see that the dragon on the real plane is more detailed. I didn't have very good references to use, nor am I a very good artist, so I shot for "close enough." Sorry I couldn't be more help. Thanks for bringing back this moldy-oldie. I'm glad you enjoyed my build. Thanks for the pat on the back! Cheers, -O Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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