Subject: Re: 1/72 Heller F-86F Sabre in PAF colors
From: "Steve Bamford ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "glenn bontigao" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:18:28 -0700

Hi Glenn,
No photos came through with this article....also the photo bucket link is a dead link.

Please send the photos to my [email-masked]  e-mail address.

Steve Bamford
Aircraft Resource Center
http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: glenn bontigao 
  To: [email-masked] 
  Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 9:11 AM
  Subject: 1/72 Heller F-86F Sabre in PAF colors

  "1/72 Heller F-86F Sabre in PAF colors" 
  by Glenn "wingnut" Bontigao
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  Hey folks,

  An aircraft kit long overdue for my PAF line-up project...

  This is my humble rendition of the PAF's North American F-86F Sabre jet fighter the first operational american jet fighter with swept back wings.  This aircraft was hurriedly fielded in the korean war to fly against the Russian made MIG-15 fighter.

  The PAF received this aircraft during the late 1950s, and was quickly put to use in an aerobatics team which was the "Blue Diamonds".

  This project was from an old Heller kit which took a bit of work to be updated.  Raised panels lines were sanded off and rescribed.  All the decals were from scratch. Paints were Gunze Sangyo Mr. Metal and acrylics with a Mr Hobby 1000 primer base sanded smooth with 400 and 1000 grit sandpaper and finished of with a buffing stick.

  Different hues of NMF aluminum effect were achieved with the use of Gunze "Smoke" color and other clear colors.

  Among the varied paint schemes that the PAF Sabres were rendered, I decided to do the color scheme for the personal mount of Capt. Florendo A. Aquino Jr. (Serial # 52-5473/ "ALOYAN III") with the 7th Tactical Fighter Squadron, circa 1957-1958. (Thanks to Tausugair's reference artwork...)

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  [url=http://zcap.freeyellow.com/looney6.JPG] [u]Actual aircraft pix click here...[/u][/url]

  [url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v615/starQhenson/PAFBlueDiamonds1960copy.jpg] [u]A magazine cover featuring this PAF F-86F squadron...[/u][/url]
          
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  Some pictures with my other PAF Sabredog build...

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  Photos and text © by Glenn "wingnut" Bontigao

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