North American F-107
Ultra Sabre

by Francesco Pernice

 Italeri's 1/72 scale Super Sabre is available online at Squadron

This beautiful aircraft challenged the F-105 in a USAF competition for an attack plane.
Unfortunately the choice fell on the F-105 even though the F-107 was undoubtedly better in many respects.

This 1/72 scale model is a mixture of the VAMI Models resin kit and the ESCI/ITALERI KIT.

The VAMI kit is rather difficult to assemble because the resin is deformed. Using the wings and tailerons from ESCI's kit was a great help.

Flaps are always extended downward in pictures of the real aircraft so they were cut-off and repositioned. Many panels above the wings were also re-engraved.

The landing gear was taken from the ESCI model and modified according to pictures of the real aircraft; while the wheels of the main landing gears come from an Italeri YF23.

The model was painted with Humbrol Metal Cote on a glossy Azure base, coated with Gunze clear gloss and finished with red/orange. Decals come from different sheets dedicated to USAF in 1/72.

In the end this was very hard work in an ocean of filler!
 

Text, Images and Model Copyright © 2001 by Francesco Pernice
Page Created 11 October, 2001
Last Updated 26 October, 2001

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