1/48 Trumpeter F-100D Super Sabre

Gallery Article by Steve Negley on Apr 23 2012

 

 

North American F-100D Super Sabre

The F-100C version of this kit was the subject of a previous ARC article.  That kit was such a good build that I wanted to try the D version also.  Again I just built this kit OOB and added some of my own details. This kit is just as nice and builder friendly as the F-100C.  Duly noted though is the absence of any munitions in this kit as well so I robbed some munitions from an old Monogram kit and I bought a Hasegawa weapons set to arm this fighter.  To add some realism I drilled out the holes where the gun barrels would be on the bottom of the fuselage.  The cockpit is completely OOB and I added some seat belts to the ejection seat.  There just aren't many seam areas that are a problem with these kits.  The only area that needed some work were the wing fillet areas and these I just filled with some stretch sprue and Tenax 7 and sanded to form.

 

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I painted the model with a base coat of OEM automotive grey primer, sanded and polished with some 0000 steel wool then the entire model was painted with Alclad Duraluminum.  The burnt metal area around the afterburner section is 2 parts Testors Modelmaster Rust, 2 parts Alclad Duraluminum, and 2 parts Testors Modelmaster (Metalizer) Burnt Iron then thinned 70% with lacquer thinner.  The decal sheet called for a silver lacquer finish for the model so it was painted to give the model that effect.

The decal sheet is Superscale MS481244 for F-100D, serial # 63263, 510th TFS, 450th TFW, Clark AFB, Phillippines, the decals were superb and settled down nicely with Solvaset and blotted to remove any air bubbles.  Many of these early USAFE F-100C/D Super Sabres had some very colorful markings of which this F-100 is no exception.  I armed this F-100 with 2 Mk117 GP bombs on the outer wing pylons, 2 335 Gallon EFT"s on the center wing pylons, 2 AGM-12B Bullpup missles on the inner wing pylons and a BLU-27 Napalm cannister on the center fuselage station.

Steve Negley

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