F-100 Super Sabre

[m94x]

I just bought an F-100 Super Sabre on Ebay and was wondering if anyone has one in their collection that can tell me who made it originally. My model is not chrome plated and I am contemplating having it done-any advice? Can you show yours if you have one so I can see how it should present? Also, it is missing the canopy and I need a replacement. sorry for the small picture-until I receive the ashtray, this is the biggest I can capture the Ebay photo.

[grwebster]

May be this is a better photo

[grwebster]

It looks to me to be a theater made piece. Not an Allyn or other known manufacturer in my opinion.
F-100s were in south east asia during the VN war so my guess would be that it was made there.
All aluminum, never chromed originally, so my input would be to just polish it up. Easy to do and inexpensive.
As far as a canopy goes it isn't 1/72 scale so using a kit one would not work. There was a post here that got into canopy manufacturing detail, so do a search for it.

[m94x]

Thanks for the advice-what did you use to enlarge the photo? I know the resolution is there, I just can't seem to blow it up from the file I save from Ebay.

[Aeronaut]

I hate to rain on your parade but to me it looks that the vertical tailplane is very short, it may have been cropped as the rest of the model looks good.

[richardstarr]

This profile shot (side picture) looks great.
I think your aircraft looks absolutely fabulous and very impressive.

I have three of the FOMAER NORTH AMERICAN F100D aircraft.
The F100 SUPER SABRE is one of my all time favorite jet planes.
Yours is better because it has the stand.
I believe the FOMAER models are closer to 48th scale and perhaps 1960???

May I recommend MAAS METAL POLISH first? Sometimes, depending on the
metal, the MAAS actually works quite good. Try this on a small metal piece and verify
the results first. I have used the MAAS polish on my stainless steel NORTH AMERICAN AVIATION B1
strategic bombers, and they turned out beautiful. Regards, RICHARD

[m94x]

An astute observation about the tailfin- early models of the F-100 apparently suffered from what is known as inertial roll yaw coupling which could sometimes lead to loss of control of the aircraft. The problem was resolved by increasing the tailfin and wingspan. My model is of the post-fix model when no one knew why the jets were crashing.

[m94x]

Richard-i'll definitely try the MAAS polish-where can I find it? Can you post some photos of your F-100s?
Ed

[Aeronaut]

An astute observation about the tailfin- early models of the F-100 apparently suffered from what is known as inertial roll yaw coupling which could sometimes lead to loss of control of the aircraft. The problem was resolved by increasing the tailfin and wingspan. My model is of the post-fix model when no one knew why the jets were crashing.

I would agree that it could be a pre-enlarged-tail model it it wasn't that it looks like it is a two-seater (by the cockpit cavity size). The two-seater prototype had the enlarged tail already.

[grwebster]

m94x
I have an Apple MacBook Pro computer which comes with a program called Grab. It will let you take a cropped photo of any part of your screen.
BUT by hitting Apple/command Shift and 3, the computer takes a 'screen shot' of the entire screen. I just saved this in iPhoto, then cropped it to just the photo of the Super Sabre and that is what I posted.
Depending on your computer, try and find out how to take a 'screen shot'. I think they all have that capability.