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Bare Metal Foil F86 Sabre

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Posted by fightnjoe on Sunday, February 15, 2004 3:37 AM
very nice pics.

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, February 15, 2004 12:20 AM
Cool!! Doing a bare metal foil is my planned next project... I will post some pictures if all goes well.
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Posted by gbritnell on Saturday, February 14, 2004 9:16 PM
Thanks Shrikes and all for the good words. As far as the bare metal finish goes I didn't take any shots along the way as I just got a digital camera. I bought the Bare Metal Foil regular chrome finish because the aluminum was too hard to work with and the extra shiny chrome was too shiny. The foil goes on great and what's nice about doing aircraft is you have so many panel lines to trim to. It doesn't take very long till you can see how far you can stretch the foil. It's pretty amazing stuff. Like I said earlier, you can only go around tight round surfaces so well. I found by cutting a small piece and putting it on the round surface and burnishing back as far as you can till it wrinkles badly then trim back to remove the wrinkles. Now you can lay the long side pieces on and blend into the tip. With BMF you can blend and burnish till the joint is almost invisible.
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Posted by shrikes on Saturday, February 14, 2004 8:30 PM
I'm still trying to put together my Academy 1/48 Sabre, but i stalled because i'm not too sure how to do the natural metal... I tried BMF on some surfaces, but it didn't reveal the smaller details like i thought it would. So i might just go with more convetional techniques... Fantasic job, by the way! Did you take a few pictures of the build, perhaps? I'm real keen on seeing just how you applied the BMF! Big Smile [:D]
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, February 14, 2004 5:56 PM
That is an awesome BMF job!!!!
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Posted by gbritnell on Saturday, February 14, 2004 5:14 PM
The kit is an Academy and the decals were the kit decals. The model was built OOB. I wanted to try Bare Metal Foil so I got the regular chrome which is more than bright enough. I've use Aluminum foil but it won't go around curves like BMF.
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Posted by saltydog on Saturday, February 14, 2004 4:35 PM
that looks excellent. keep on sharing. later.
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, February 14, 2004 4:16 PM
Nice looking bird !

Your top link works, and your bottom link has an additional slash between the "20" and "Models"

If you click the yellow icon above the dialog box (4th from right), you can insert the URL there. Click between the two sets of brackets that contain "IMG" & /IMG"
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Posted by jimz66 on Saturday, February 14, 2004 4:15 PM
NIce Job. What kit, what scale and where on earth did you get those sweet decals?

Very nice job.
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Posted by gbritnell on Saturday, February 14, 2004 4:14 PM
That worked, here's the other pic.
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Posted by gbritnell on Saturday, February 14, 2004 4:07 PM
Bear with me. I went back to Photobucket and reduced the file size even smaller.


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Posted by gbritnell on Saturday, February 14, 2004 3:56 PM
Well I see that didn't work so well. I guess like all first time photo posters I've got more to learn.
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Bare Metal Foil F86 Sabre
Posted by gbritnell on Saturday, February 14, 2004 3:51 PM
My first attempt at BMF. I figured I'd start in 1/72 to see what would happen. It worked quite well except doing sharp round corners like on the end of the drop tanks but learned a ton.
http://img14.photobucket.com/albums/v43/gbritnell/Plastic%20/Models/Sabre_Jet_2.jpg[/img]
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