For a long time I
wanted to build a F-86K "Kaasjager" (Cheesehunter) of the Royal Dutch
Airforce, Kaasjager was a local nickname for the aircraft. A few years ago,
I
ordered somewhere in Italy a Resin kit by Tauro models, but I still hadn't the
guts to build it, and then, there was the Special Hobby release, which made me
very happy! When I got the kit it looked all great, preprinted photoetch for the
cockpit, nice detail, and a large decal sheet with several options.
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images below to see larger images
I Wanted to build a early
version, so I had one problem, the kit wings are a -40 wings and older
versions had the -30 wings. So these had to be shortened, and there was a
little other thing which had to be changed to make it all perfect, I think
it was something with the slats, but I'm not sure about it. The overall
look with the shorter wings is OK to me. The building process went quite
ok, and wasn't that hard, the cockpit was together in only 3 evenings,
(hail to the pre-coloured photoetch!! :-) ) and also the rest of the kit
went together quite well.
After painting the
whole kit with Modelmaster and Humbrol paints, I completed it with decals
from Dutch Decal sheet 72039. The plane is Q-239 with Squadron codes ZX-15 based
at Twenthe AFB in the period 1955-1956.
Overall the kit was
a very lovely to build, and I probably gonna' get a few more of these and complete
them in Norwegian, German and Italian Markings, and of course some more Dutch
versions!
I hope you guys like
it, and feel free to leave any comments.
Cheers!
Niels
Lelystad, The Netherlands 2007
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