plastic scale model 1/32 F-100 D

**North American F-100D Super Sabre**
**1/32 scale**
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Super Sabre in 1/32 scale
... continued from page 1.... The undercarriage with wheel bays is visible so it was needed to built all from scratch. The undercarriage legs were given strength by using a steel clothes hanger that was bended and integrated in the wings through the fuselage. This also gave strength to the wing-fuselage joints.
The armament canon bay was also detailed as was the nose undercarriage.
The wings of the F-100 has slats and the F-100D has a different flap layout, but the ID model provides the correct wing shape. The slats and flaps were cut-out and detailed. This required a rounded curved sheet of plastic as the leading edge, for which I used an old B-29 wing! This also give strength to the wings as it acted also as a spar.
The ejector seat, as all detail parts scratch built from plastic card. The various instrument panels acn also be seen prior to fitting into the fuselage.
An interesting point was the finish of the vacuform model. There were first no decals and I really wanted to use a metal coat so the surface was carefully polished as to remove all scratches. This is really needed for a metal look. The F-100 has various looks of shades of metal. This was achieved with different metal paints such as from Testor. The rear section was given a treat of "burned metal" by spraying transparant blue and brown paints, mixed with metal paints. Details were highlighted with the paintbrush, but be carefull not to exaggerate this!. The paint scheme desired required the use of various spare decals and using strips of colour decals. It took quite some work to put on the stripes and codes, but the result was worth it! It now sits on the model shelves for decades. Here some more recent photos are seen. You will see that the canopy has coloured yellowish in the years due to its material. Not a lot can be done about that! This vacuform ID-model took first prize in the vacuform category at the IPMS Nationals Contest, The Netherlands in 1992.
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