Hi guys,
Can anyone recommend a good 1/48 F100 super sabre? Has anybody here built the Revell and Monogram kits? I bought a Lindberg F100 once and it was crap. It was the only one that I could find, these were the days before you could just find anything on the internet.
Chris
not sure on the revellogram hun but i recommend the trumpeter kit. you can find them pretty cheap. they offer the C,D,and F.
Monogram is a very good kit. $ 25.00. Built that one.
Trumpeter, $ 60.00.
Thanks guys. Willieandjoe, do you remember if the monogram kit has recessed panel lines? I think I remember the Lindberg kit being covered in those giant rivets that one used to see on plane kits.
Chris
The Monogram kit has raised panel lines. Here’s a pic or two of mine:
Fab Super Sabre. Long live North American Aviation. I have the book on order about the Misty pilots- figure there’s a TF-100 in my future. Great build, Tex.
Who makes a good F-100? I hear North American made a swell one…
I love Monogram’s model. It has really nice detail, specially the cockpit and it’s cheaper than Trumpy. You really don’t have to rescribe if you lightly sand down the raised panel lines. You need to polish out the surface after sanding to prepare it for NMF.
Well, upon recommendations I bought the Monogram kit. It is the F-100 fighter bomber kit #5424. TexGunner, I believe that this is the same kit that you built (looks fantastic by the way!) I say this because it has the same markings.
Can anyone tell me why it is called the F100 Fighter Bomber and not Super Sabre? Havent received it yet so I cannot look at the paperwork and perhaps get this answer.
Chris
It’s name is the Super Saber, The classification is a fighter/bomber.
The Monagram/Revell is a great value kit, I built it a few years for a friend. It builds into a nice kit.
Probably as a move to avoid copyright infringement. The name Super Sabre is most likely owned by some aerospace company that gobbled up North American, while F-100 and Fighter Bomber are public domain government terms. To avoid having to pay money and passing off the cost to the consumer, it is easier to call it F-100 Fighter Bomber. God bless the lawyers…[:@]
not sure where you’re looking at the trumpy kit. got mine for $30
Squadron has the Trumpy for $46 and change
Currently owned by Pratt & Whitney, go figure.
Raised panel lines are frankly a good thing, because eradicating them is easy and that leads the modeler to “real”
The Mono 100 just has that old and great kit feel. Hard to describe but there.
Thanks Chris! That kit was given to me by the pilot who flew that particular plane in Viet Nam, retired Air Force Major Don Schmenk. Here’s a link to his website. I had contacted him about questions regarding the Hun and he generously replied by sending me the Monogram kit.
http://userpages.bright.net/~dschmenk/Welcome.html
A few more pics of the model:
http://www.network54.com/Forum/47751/message/1326554634/Major+Don+Schmenk's+F-100
and some info about Huns in VN:
Your welcome Texgunner,
I want to build the plane and give it to my dad for Christmas. He worked on F100’s in the sixties. It is a surprise so I cannot ask him too much about it. I do think however that “his” planes were natural metal. This upsets me because I think I will need some more decals since the kit decals are white on the box art. Perhaps some black “USAF” and tail numbers. I am new to the internet modeling community and wonder if there is a “swapshop” kind of thing where someone may have some extra decals laying around that they would be happy to get rid of. I have never before bought decals other than the kit supplied ones and are not sure how it works.
Chris
Chris, try some of the online venders. Squadron or Sprue Brothers either one should have quite a few NaturalMetalFinish Hun decals to chose from. Hey, maybe even your dad’s unit? Good luck!
Gary
how does the revell kit build up? im going nmf with my trumpy kit and want do a camo scheme bird also.
The Revell kit builds up nicely. I just started mine this afternoon and it is one of their better molds.