F-100 D Super Sabre
in backdated and corrected.
After I had
published here on ARC my first aluminium plated big "HUN" some months
ago, Chris from Zacto Models released a new resin nose for Trumpeter's
F-100 D, which gives that model a type of face lift that
encouraged me to build a second , and this time a perfect
"HUN", which I want to show you today, after I was able to shoot some
fotos of my latest model under sunny conditions.
I'm living here in
Germany not too far away from Hahn Air Base, former home of the 50 TFW, USAFE
and I took a lot of fotos of the Super Sabres of this unit during numerous
visits to that base and I decided to build my second and corrected
"HUN" in the colourful markings of the "HAHN HAWKS".
The most colourful
aircraft of the 50th was F-100D-55 NH s/n 55-2950, the personal
aircraft of the Wing Commander Col. C. Branbury, which carried triple colored
bands with white stars around the nose and wing insignia on the center fin
band of the tail.
A very interesting
detail was the unusual presentation of the so called Buzz number
"FW-950", situated mid-fuselage, which had the number 9 in white
and the letters "TH" added after the zero.
As already described
in a previous submission, the bare metal finish of my model is created by using
simple kitchen foil and I must confess, this is a pretty lot of work, but the
result is unbeatable compared with a paint of silver lacquer. But the aluminium
foil should only be used, when you have decided to build a particular aircraft
in real bare metal operating in the late fifties, because all USAFE
Huns later reveived a protective silver lacquer coat and the shiny
aluminium foil is than unrealistic.
All decals on my
model are again selfmade or brushed on, except national insignias, letters and
numbers.
Early F-100's had no
tail hooks, so do not use these parts of the Trumpeter Kit.
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The Zacto resin nose is
beautiful detailed with rivets and panel lines and fits well; only
some sanding is necessary, especially when connecting with the intake
trunk. Thanks to Chris for another masterpiece of resin to solve our
problems with that chinese kit.
This time I've
used the Trumpeter cockpit oob with some corrections, increasing the value
of this section by using Eduard's cockpit set and the wonderful detailed AIRES
ejection seat ,what is in my opinion a good combination.
All in all I must
say it was again fun to build another F-100 in this big scale, which looks now
like a real "HUN" and I'm happy to have one in my model collection.
And telling the truth, I'm planning to give my first "HUN" the same
treatment by replacing the Trumpy nose against Zacto's resin intake, but
I'm scared of the lot of work on an already completed nice model. We'll see
!!!!
Peter
Doll
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