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North American F-86 Sabre

North American F-86D in 1/48 by Revell

Hi Folks! I just joint this community and thought I'd share one of my recent builds, the North American F-86D in 1/48 by Revell. It is the bir of Capt. A. G. Limpantsis 445th Fighter Interceptor Squadron Geiger AFB; Wa USA December [...]

Major Erich Hartmann Commodore of the German Air Force Fighter Squadron 71 “Richthofen” 1961

The F-86 Sabers were the successors to the U.S. Air Forces legendary P-51 Mustangs and their first jet-powered fighter aircraft. The XP-86 prototype first flew on October 1, 1947. The first production version, the F-86A, was armed with six [...]

KOREA: THE FORGOTTEN WAR - 1/48 Hasegawa F-86E-5(Can)Major John Bolt, USMC

The F-86 Sabre was the first really successful US jet fighter, with 9,800 Sabres produced between 1949-60 in the U.S., Canada, Japan, Italy and Australia. The F-86A was capable of supersonic flight in a dive, though the airplane was [...]

Monogram F-86 Sabre

This kit was in a shrink wrapped box with a $2.99 price sticker on it. The box was dated 1976. The kit was in great condition, the old decals looked perfect. I also had a new set of Warbird Decal’s F-86 common stencils & markings [...]

Airfix Hasegawa F-86F-40

During the Korean War, the F-86 Sabre had been outperformed by the MiG-15 with regard to altitude performance. The MiG’s operational ceiling of 50,000 feet allowed the Soviet fighters to almost always use an altitude advantage when [...]

1/48 F-86K Sabre Dog

This is the "MustHave!" models F-86K. Basically "MustHave!" models took the complete 1/48 Revell/Monogram F-86D Sabre Dog kit and simply added a completely new tooled "F-86K" fuselage. They also added a [...]

Hasegawa 1/32 F-86E(M) Hellenic Air Force

The North American F-86 Sabre is best known as the United States' first swept-wing fighter that could counter the swept-wing Soviet MiG-15 in high-speed dogfights in the skies of the Korean War (1950–1953), fighting some of the earliest [...]

John Glenn's F-86F Mig Mad Marine, Academy 1/72

Hi all after a long time of inactivity as a consequence of lot health issues, finally back on track :). Finished Academy F-86 in colours of John Glenn machine from Korea war period. Academy is well known "plastic", good details, [...]

1/32 Kittyhawk F-86D Sabre Dog

Finally finished after over a month of frustrating assembly and painting. This is the model I posted about a month ago in which I stated "was a total loss", but after taking a break I picked it up again and finished it. Many [...]

North American F-86D "Sabre Dog"Revell 1/48

Good day iModelers, today I wanted to share my first completed kit of 2022. This kit is the well known and widely available Revell F-86D in 1/48 scale. This kit is about 20 years old now, but if I didn't know better, I might've guessed [...]