Hi All
Brought some kits and decals off a work colleague and was immediately drawn to this one because of the gold colour scheme and the impressive Golden Hawks markings which came courtesy of an old Sabre Decals sheet.
Started this one roughly about the time I started Tom's Spitfire, I had a choice of the Heller or the Matchbox Sabre and settled on the Matchbox offering as the Heller kit seemed to have too much wing sweep when compared with the layout drawings supplied with the decals. A shame as the Heller kit is a lot more detailed and also came with two types of droptanks. I borrowed one pair from the Heller kit for this build.
The kit went together quite well only needing a bit of filler around the wing joints, did the classic "forgot the nose weight" trick. Fortunately I was able to roll some superglue covered weights down to the first bulkhead through the nose intake.
Paint and decals went on ok and I was only two parts away from finishing when I realised something was wrong, there was only a tiny bit of ground clearance under the drop tanks when sat on its undercarriage, I had fitted the wrong drop tanks! (Classic 50% chance of being right, 100% wrong
). So back to the Heller kit for the other tanks. At the same time I fumbled the model and dropped it, landing on its undercarriage the nose wheel shot off and was swallowed by the rug monster
, back to the Heller kit for a nose wheel.
Finally I got it finished...............
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Robomog, on Flickr
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Robomog, on Flickr
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Robomog, on Flickr
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Robomog, on Flickr
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Robomog, on Flickr
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Robomog, on Flickr
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Robomog, on Flickr
Thanks for looking ...........
Mog
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