North American F-100D Super Sabre – Trumpeter 1/48

Trumpeter 1/48 scale, box number 02822, F-100D Thunderbirds kit is converted to Turkish Air Force F-100D Super Sabre.

Kit has totally engraved panel lines and rivets but they are very weak. Fortunately kits plastic is soft so i re-scribed and re-rivet all detail easily.

Movable surfaces like rudder, flaps/slats can be build active position. I prefer closed slats instead of open because lack of detail.

Landing gear struts was detailed with some wire and streched sprue.

No canopy detail coming with kit. I added some Evergreen plastic .

Landing gear bay doors re-builded to make more accurate. I used some part of kit, Evergreen plastic and sprue.

Pilots body and head are from another kit. Arms are spare resin arms, parachute is shaped epoxy putty. Seat is resin.

Extras:

• Resin cockpit (Aires)
• Colorless photoetch instrument panel (Aires)
• Seat (Aires)
• Wheel bays (Aires)
• Exhaust nozzle (Aires)
• Wheels (Aires)
• Resin nose
• Metal pitot tube
• Stencils (Cam Pro Series F-100D)
• Decals (Microscale Super Sabre of Turkish Air Force)
• Bombs (Hasegawa Weapon Sets)
• Paints (Vallejo Acrylics)
• Reference Sources: F-100 SUPER SABRE IN TURKISH AIR FORCE Volume 1/2 by LEVENT BASARA