F-86 sabre?

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Hello,
I just bought academys F-86F-30 Sabre and started to build it and completed the engine and was woundering how to paint it? Does any one have any suggetions for me? Dose anyone have pics that i could look at?
thank you,
kevin

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Hey, Kevin.
I found a picture of an F-86 from the JASDF - looks great. Have a look.
http://www.leonardo.co.jp/body/f86f03.jpg

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Keven,

Here is a site that shows the J-47 engine.
http://www.emfa.pt/FAPING/museu/eng153.htm

Richard

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Here is one site that was invaluable to me when i built my academy sabre:
http://f-86.tripod.com/
This site also explains the differences in the wings! Which one are you building, the 1/72 or the 1/48 offering?

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I can tell you a few colors from the J-47, but remember, they vary and most of them are metal colors: The compressor case (the big round main part of engine) is gloss black. The square oil tank attached to the side of that is bare aluminum. Use burnt metal on the combustion cans that lead to the tail pipe. Use lighter burnt metal graduating to sooty on that tail pipe. Remember, F-86 had no afterburner, so don’t overdo sootiness out the end of the tail pipe, which is what people will see. But the others are right, look at a photo, but make sure its a J-47 that would go in your F-86 and not a B-47 or other jet that used this find old workhorse engine. Smoky, boy were they smoky. Oh, and All but the earliest Canadian F-86s used the home grown Orenda engine, which is why their planes are a little fatter than ours and have a big truncated hole on the top rear of the feselage. If you’re at an air show, and you see an F-86 painted up like, say, “The Huff,” look on the back for that big opening and see if it’s a genuine American product. But as usual, like Grampa Simpson, Sharkskin gets off the subject and rambles on and on about trivia. Tell us how the build came out. I keep hearing that Academy subjects, like their P-38, meet or beat Hasegawa in accuracy at a more reasonable price. I’m getting ready to do Academy Polikarpov I-16 because I like Spanish loyalist markings.