MilViz F-86F Sabre Repaints

F-86F Major Boots Blesse

Found time to do one more of a great pilot, Major F. C. Boots Blesse.

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One "camo" wip in the making... :kilroy:

Canadair built (CL-13B) #381_Mk.6 flown by the South African Air Force. It is a camouflaged version and is in the colours worn while used by the 85th Advanced Flying School (Air Combat School) during the early 1980's. This unit was based at Pietersburg Air Force Base in the North of South Africa... :icon_lol:

Since I'm working from a profile, anybody with pertinent info and willing to share would be greatly welcome...

Fleurdelys
 
Coming late to the party I know but without Duncan Curtis' definitive work on the RCAF/RAF CL-13's, finding good source material proved difficult and I wanted to get it as accurate as I could. This is Flt. Lt. R. A. Brown's XB872 'R' from 234 Sqdn based at RAF Geilenkirchen in 1954. There are still a couple of things to check out; firstly the nose radar cover looks awful that colour but the only photo I can find seems to confirm it, and secondly the size and position of the underwing roundel and serial needs to be checked.

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Will post ASAP

DaveQ

PS. Gunnar - then off to complete 52-4392...and many thanks!

PPS. Uploaded here and Flightsim.com.
 
Cuco said:
Nice repaint, Stovall, will it be released, if so, please let me know!!!
Thanks in advance, Stovall,
Cuco
San Juan, PR
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You are welcome Cuco, I will try to get it uploaded today. Appreciate the interest.
 
fleurdelys said:
One "camo" wip in the making... :kilroy:

Canadair built (CL-13B) #381_Mk.6 flown by the South African Air Force. It is a camouflaged version and is in the colours worn while used by the 85th Advanced Flying School (Air Combat School) during the early 1980's. This unit was based at Pietersburg Air Force Base in the North of South Africa... :icon_lol:

Since I'm working from a profile, anybody with pertinent info and willing to share would be greatly welcome...

Fleurdelys
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you dont know how much this meant for me. cant wait for this to be uploaded.
 
Dimus said:
I believe JB (Naruto-Kun) would really appreciate this paint.
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Darned right you are....I dont really have any attachments to the SAAF F-86s(i do have a great uncle who flew bostons in WWII) but i could still do with one to do my tests in....
 
fleurdelys said:
One "camo" wip in the making... :kilroy:

Canadair built (CL-13B) #381_Mk.6 flown by the South African Air Force. It is a camouflaged version and is in the colours worn while used by the 85th Advanced Flying School (Air Combat School) during the early 1980's. This unit was based at Pietersburg Air Force Base in the North of South Africa... :icon_lol:

Since I'm working from a profile, anybody with pertinent info and willing to share would be greatly welcome...

Fleurdelys
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Thank you JB and Snow White for your interest; it is appreciated... :icon29:

Following my request for info, I managed to find a "right" sided picture of this aircraft with the following results...
Working from a usually left sided profile is fraught with historical mayhem as we can only speculate as to what is hopefully on the other side. This approach has left me with a wrong sided "Red enseign" tail flag in a previous upload and I was just about ready to duplicate my earlier error, this time around... :kilroy:
It has allowed me to correct the squadron badge as well as add some missing important stencil. I've also changed the number to match that of the pic.
The artistic license bit is just to reward myself as it looked good on the plane (and no, the pic does not show the real colour of the "pitot").:icon_lol:
 
Col. James K. Johnson

Here is one for Thanksgiving before enjoying friends at a great dinner and saying thanks. This is for Col. James K. Johnson with ten kills.

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stovall said:
You are welcome Cuco, I will try to get it uploaded today. Appreciate the interest.
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Thank you once again, Stovall, for Blesse's repaint. Just downloaded it, and just now saw you also did Col. JK Johnson's F-86, beautiful!!

Cuco
San Juan, PR
 
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