F9 from The Bridges at Toko-Ri

Modeling Subjects Aircraft
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I remember someone doing a beautiful model of Lt. Harry Brubaker’s (played by Bill Holden) F9 a few years ago as it appeared in the 1954 Korean War Movie “The Bridges at Toko-Ri”. Does anyone know who makes the decals for that particular F9 or was it a custom set put together by the modeler? I’m pretty certain it was featured in FSM 5-7 years ago.

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Great movie! Would be a nice subject to model.

Mike

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Revell issued the kit a few years back with those decals. You should be able to find one online or a vendor at a show.

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Got that kit waiting to begin one of these days. Kit decal sheet was a little dry so hopefully the Brubaker markings will transfer okay. Found my kit on ARC, just search around, you’ll find one.

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Super Scale also did a set that included the markings for Brubaker’s F9F. They are long OOP, but probably still can be found from the usual sources of old decals.

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Thanks for the help guys…I’m tracking a couple of them now. Never got around at getting that particular kit.

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Hey Plasticjunkie, you may be luck. I built the revell kit a few years ago and it has the Brubaker scheme on the box top. The kit has two choices of markings, the other being a Marine version. Me being a former Marine guess what I did with the kit.


I do believe I kept the brumaker decals, so if you can give me a day or two I can dig em out for you and they are all yours. It would consist of the nose art and tail codes. The national insignia I used for the kit but you should have no problem finding them
Steve

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Add this kit to the project:

http://www.modelingmadness.com/reviews/korean/cleaverh03s.htm

Of course it’s an FM, which makes it really hard to build.

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Steve

Thanks, thst’s really nice of you to help me out. Let me know if you have the decals so I can shoot you a PM with my address. I will reimburse you for the postage. Thanks!

Ernie

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Thanks bondoman for the info. Humm… you just gave me a fantastic idea for a great dio…[:-^]