New 1/32nd scale Sabre kit.

[Airframes]

For any Sabre fans out there, I thought I'd just let you know that Hannant's in the UK have just announced the arrival of a new kit from Italeri.
This is a 1/32nd scale kit of the F86F Sabre jet; whether it's a re-boxing of the Haegawa or Kinetic kits, I don't yet know, but I'm trying to find out, and suspect it's a brand new tooling, as I saw a hint of this recently on the Italeri web-site.
The kit includes decals for 4 aircraft, including 'The Huff' and 'Miss Tena', based at Suwon during the Korean war, a No112 Sqn RAF (Germany) Mk4 based at Bruggen in 1955, and a machine from the Italian Air Force.
The UK price at Hannant's is £39.99. (less VAT for overseas ciustomers).
When I get more info, I'll let you know.

 

[Lucky13]

Wit! No No. 4 Squadron!?

Wrong scale for me anyhoo!

 

[pbfoot]

Weren't most if not all of the RAF Sabres Canadair MK 4's a nice one from North Luffenham would be nice

 

[Airframes]

Yep, you're right Neil. With the exception of a small number of interim types, RAF Fighter Command, and RAF Germany both operated the Canadair-built F4. However, the Sabre was very much a 'stop-gap' aircraft within the RAF, until the Hunter became available, when all Sabre squadrons made the changeover.