You lucky dog. I’ve got 3 ongoing builds right now, so I won’t be able to start right off the bat. And I also need to find some time to build a B-25 sometime before the end of the year…
Hey Gamera, what Sabre you gonna do? I built the little 1/72 Academy F-86E as while ago, very nice and have the superb 1/48 Hasagawa F-86 F40 in the stash, also for Alclad 
Pix of my Banshee to follow.
Theuns
Hey Theuns, the Banshee sounds cool! Maybe I should have went with something more unusual.
My F-86 is the 1/48th Academy kit. One of the guys in our IPMS Club dad was ground crew on the aircraft pictured on the box top so I’m going to use the kit decals to build that plane.
I built that kit aswell, quite nice, the decals were in my kit not to good I am affraid.
Maybe you will have more luck with yours.
The banshee is really one of those ultra simple kits from academy. The detail level is very bare, but I just like the looks of the plane.
Theuns
Yeah, I think I remember you building a SAAF F-86 for SP’s Korean War GB (love those springbok insignia!)
Gee, I’m really hoping to do the box art aircraft, well I’ll be really careful and if they do go to blazes I think I do have another sheet of F-86s somewhere- it’s just they’re all post-Korea fighters. Thanks for the warning!
I haven’t done a group build before and this one looks like a good one to cut my teeth on. Besides I have a Tamiya ME 262 that’s been callin my name. So please pencil me in if it’s alright.
Sounds great! Can’t go wrong with a Tamiya kit.
I just completed the Tam 262, it really is a shake and bake kit, no issues with it atall…except the hard decals 
Microsol does seem to help a little.
Pitty no-one brings out a slatted wing Sabre in 1/48.
The SAAF only had 1 hard-wing Sabre in Korea (tail # 622 as a USAF replacement) the others were all slatted wing planes.
Theuns
I think there is a resin replacement wing for the slatted version but it’s more expensive that the Academy kit! I looked at it a year or so back hoping to build a model of US astronaut Gus Grissom’s F-86 but I couldn’t find a photo of the aircraft and didn’t want to spring for the price of the replacement wing so I dropped the idea.
I do think it is strange since there is such a big potential market for it.
Le’t hope TamiGawa brings out a nice new 1/32 slatted Sabre soon 
I recall reading somewhere that Gus was concidered to be the best “stick 'n rudder” guy in the Mercury 7 program. A heck of a feather in the can if you look at his colliques!
Here in my entry. Only the winghalves joined and bangseat put into the tub.
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Theuns
Yeap, Gus had I think 80 missions and never lost a ship until Liberty Bell 7…
Pretty neat kit there, haven’t built much of their 1/72nd stuff but looks nicely molded.
Wouldn’t you rather have Revell of Germany do it in 1/32? That way it would be good AND affordable. Some of their recent big scale stuff is cheaper than a lot ofJapanese 1/72 stuff.
Hey that sounds like a plan…especially the cheaper part!
I have an old 1/72 Matchbox F9F-4 Panther I can join with if I can just get some decals for it.
Bought a Superscale CAG sheet but of course the decals are black and white so there is no way to do a blue or a gray cat. Should have been all white.
Lewbud: Wouldn’t mind it at all! Am working on the new Revell 1/72nd B-17 and it’s as good as anything done by Tamiya or Hasegawa.
68GT: Hope the kits in better shape than the box!!! [;)] Personally think the Panther may have been one of the best looking of all the early jets.
Plastic is good but the decals are shot so I have to find some.
That box has certainly seen better days 68. I found 2 sets of 72nd F9F decal on Hannants, but they are not for the F-4. Is there much difference between the 4 and the other versions.
These are what I found.
Not sure what the kit truly represents but according to Wikipedia the F9F-4 had a longer fuselage for greater fuel capacity. The F-5 is the same but has a Pratt & Whitney J48
To be honest with you I really can’t tell just by looking. F-6 a later look a bit different. I have some F-2 decals from Microscale but they screwed up and made most of the white markings black. The tail code and graphic are the only thing in white.
I can’t imagine the engines made any difference to the exterior, might be worth getting the F-5 decals.
I am by no means an expert, but I am not aware of any cosmetic differences between a -4 and a -5. Not that could be noticed in 1/72 scale especially… Oh, and welcome aboard!