1/48 Academy F-86F Sabre

In Bare Metal Foil

Gallery Article by Scott Vomacka on Mar 1 2013

 

 

This is my 1/48 Academy F-86F finished with self adhesive Bare Metal Foil. The model went to together with little trouble. I had to shim the fuselage halves a little so I could get a tighter fit in the wing root. I added a resin seat to the cockpit, P/E RBF tags for the intakes and Superscale decals. The decals gave me the most headaches. They just would not cooperate. They would wrinkle and stay (tightly) wrinkled with hot water, Micro-set and Micro-sol. I finally got them to lay down after much work. The red nose stripe decal could not be saved, so I had to paint it.

 

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I finished the model in self adhesive Bare Metal Foil. This took some time to apply (One panel at a time) but the results were worth the effort.

I enjoyed building and finishing this model. I have plans on "foiling" a F-84E next. That will be fun!

Scott Vomacka

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