Great job.

That's a gorgeous looking Sabre, those NMF's are very well executed!

Sweet! :)

Cheers,

Martin

The hassle with the SAAF Sabres were that they were all (when used in SA) Canadair Cl-13b's with the 6-3 slatted wing and I don't know of any out the box 1/48 sabres with those wings....it is just not right to build a hard wing SAAF sabre :-(

Theuns

Theuns,

You've done great justice to a very nice kit.  The Sabre is my favourite jet, hands down.  You should be very proud of what you accomplished with your efforts.  Excellent work!

Mike

p.s. - now when do you start your S.A.A.F. Sabre 6?

A real nice   Work of art 

That looks so nice. Very well done, Sir!!

BK

Now that is something to behold, stunning build.

Theuns - 

It looks amazing, job well done sir. 

Wow!  What a fantastic finish.  Well done!

Theuns, that isjust so, so gorgeous. Great job! I like the level of wear on it as a line aircraft.

What's next for you?

-BD-

Wow she looks terrific Theuns, congrads!!! 

I am calling it done....

I did not go for the airshow finish but rather a used but well maintained "line" aircraft.

It is actually a very nice kit and I enjoyed building it.

After looking closely I see I forgot the pitot mast! Just added now LOL

The thing looks absolutely steller !! Nice work.

BK

That looks so gorgeous. I love those bright early Cold War jets, and you pulled it off perfectly. Extra props for beating those decals into submission.

-BD-

She looks pretty darn good to me Theuns! The fusilage and nose stripes look like nightmares to get right. 

Wow!  Very nice work, Theuns.  Almost done.  Can't wait to see the end result.

Mike

I managed to beat the decals into submition and shoot a satin clearcoat over it so it looks like a well used plane but not loose the alclad effect.

In the bright sunlight in the pix it looks a little darker than it really is.

Nice NMF Theuns! The office looks awesome too!

After a 3 hour decals marathin I got them all on last night, I will microsol all and see where I need to touch up before clearcoat.

Theuns

Sure thing. Let me know if you change your mind. They came with my kit and I don't see using them, so they're spares. I also have a spare kit sheet, but they are wrinkled on the sheet. The one decal I used came off just fine, but I wouldn't trust them.

-BD-

Brandon that is most kind of you thanx allot :-)

I started putting microsol on these difficult decals and I think I will get them to go down a little better, just a pitty they cracked but I have to get the thing dome otherwize it will just sit in the box.

Atleast the ones that I think may give me hassles are on the bird so hopefully the worst is behind me.

T

Theuns - I have extra decals for a postwar bird if you want them. They're Aeromaster or Scalemaster. Anyway, let me know. 

-BD-

I started with the decals last night and sofar I am not really having allot of fun with them :-(

I wanted to do the Korea decals, the large central fuselage band (after breaking up) convinced me to do the other supplied decal scheme!

Then the nose decal on that scheme broke up...I got it somewhat inplace but not really 100%, so I will just beat this thing into submition anf complete it.

Theuns

Thanks Theuns, those are some great photos there- I really like 'Naughty Nelly'. 

Thanx

I am not sure about the final scheme yet, I used Hasegawa decals on my 104 last year and they were great,  I will have to have decals made up if I went Kofrea SAAF.

The SAAF only had 1 hardwing Sabre in theatre # "Q" 622. (USAF #52-4572)

For those interested here is a link to a SAAF forum I am part of showing nice pix of SAAF Korea Sabres.

http://www.saairforce.co.za/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7069

http://s991.photobucket.com/user/Jolley-Roger/media/Q-622_zps04c983d3.jpg.html

Theuns

That simply looks great. Fantastic NMF.

BK