The 1:48 F-86A wheel bay plugs cover the bays of the first production Sabre during the spraying of camouflage. It is not a kit but a masking accessory for a plastic model. Shaped to the Clear Prop kit.
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You are not buying a model but a working aid for the painting stage. The shaped fillers drop into the landing gear spaces of an F-86A model and close them off during spraying, so that the outer shade reaches neither their inside nor the mechanism you painted there so conscientiously beforehand. The shapes are based on the Clear Prop kit.
The F-86A was the first production version of the Sabre to reach combat units. It was powered by a General Electric J47 jet engine and its armament consisted of six 12.7 mm machine guns in the nose. It was the A models that bore the brunt of the first air engagements over Korea, and their duels with Soviet MiG-15s became a turning point in the development of fighter aviation. This machine has fairly shallow landing gear spaces, but they are clearly visible from below.
First finish and paint the bays themselves, and only then slide the fillers in. Take care that they sit flush with the surrounding surface: a filler that stands out will leave a mark at the edge, one that sinks will let paint inside. Once the finish is dry, pull them out and tidy the outline of the bay with a fine brush if need be.
With the silver and metallic shades commonly done on the Sabre, paint that has run in is exceptionally conspicuous, because it cannot easily be polished out. It therefore pays to mask more carefully than with matte camouflage and to look at the model from below before spraying.
Neither plastic parts nor paints are in the set; what you handle with it is the masking alone.
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