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Italeri: Sabre Is Back
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Posted: Wednesday, March 04, 2020 - 09:26 AM UTC


Italeri has re-released the 1/48 scale F-86E Sabre with marking options for four Air Forces.

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Posted: Wednesday, March 04, 2020 - 06:47 PM UTC
Silly, the RCAF example is a Sabre 2(not a 5) and the Sabre 2 is equivalent to an early F-86E-6 with a Vee shaped windscreen. Now what ?? Who researched this stuff ???

Tony
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Posted: Thursday, March 05, 2020 - 12:52 AM UTC
Here, you're not doing anything, have a book and pick four markings for the model.

But NJ air National Guard, not markings you see every day. Pretty exotic choices if nothing else.
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Posted: Thursday, March 05, 2020 - 01:13 AM UTC

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Silly, the RCAF example is a Sabre 2(not a 5) and the Sabre 2 is equivalent to an early F-86E-6 with a Vee shaped windscreen. Now what ?? Who researched this stuff ???

Tony


Tim did state it's a Esci 1979 molding so I wouldn't get to worked up about it. If it was a new mold then yes fire away, imho.
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Posted: Thursday, March 05, 2020 - 04:33 AM UTC

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Silly, the RCAF example is a Sabre 2(not a 5) and the Sabre 2 is equivalent to an early F-86E-6 with a Vee shaped windscreen. Now what ?? Who researched this stuff ???

Tony


But at least their decal artists used actual maple leaves instead of the grape leaves they usually use for the roundels this time.
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Posted: Thursday, March 05, 2020 - 05:01 AM UTC
I could care less of the old re-pop, but why include decals for a version that can't be modelled accurately OOB. How many BF-109G kits come with decals for a BF109E ??

Tony
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Posted: Thursday, March 05, 2020 - 05:04 AM UTC

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Silly, the RCAF example is a Sabre 2(not a 5) and the Sabre 2 is equivalent to an early F-86E-6 with a Vee shaped windscreen. Now what ?? Who researched this stuff ???

Tony


But at least their decal artists used actual maple leaves instead of the grape leaves they usually use for the roundels this time.


the leaves may be OK, but the blue rings are way off

Tony
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Posted: Thursday, March 05, 2020 - 06:20 AM UTC

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I could care less of the old re-pop, but why include decals for a version that can't be modelled accurately OOB. How many BF-109G kits come with decals for a BF109E ??

Tony


Try Bf-109F that come with Bf-109G or G-6 that comes with G-10 markings.

It has to be a subtle difference and from pictures that don't clearly show the variant difference.

Happens with armor all the time. Kit configuration hardly ever matches the markings included.
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Posted: Thursday, March 05, 2020 - 08:00 AM UTC

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the leaves may be OK, but the blue rings are way off

Tony


The leaves are too large, which in turn forces the rings to be too narrow.
Pity Canuck decals went under; their roundels were exactly correct.
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Posted: Thursday, March 05, 2020 - 08:01 AM UTC

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It has to be a subtle difference and from pictures that don't clearly show the variant difference.


Problem is, the difference between a Sabre 2 and a Sabre 5 is hardly subtle. Italeri should have noticed.
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Posted: Thursday, March 05, 2020 - 10:36 AM UTC

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But NJ air National Guard, not markings you see every day. Pretty exotic choices if nothing else.


Apparently, according to Italeri, the NJ ANG was in Massachusetts.

Pitiful ,actually
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Posted: Thursday, March 05, 2020 - 09:14 PM UTC

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But NJ air National Guard, not markings you see every day. Pretty exotic choices if nothing else.


Apparently, according to Italeri, the NJ ANG was in Massachusetts.

Pitiful ,actually


Um, no. Air Guard pilots need so many hours. The North East US is small as far as milage goes so about one hour in the air from NJ can put you in Massachusetts.

So you often see ANG from different states on different fields in the North East. The South NJ fighters are in Delaware and Maryland as much as they're in NJ.

But thanks for the heads up about the windscreen configuration.
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