Flag Plot

 Here's the North American F-86F Sabre  "Paper Tiger of the 51st Fighter Wing stationed in South Korea circa 1953. Captain Harold E. Fischer, Jr. shot down 11 MiG-15s while flying  Paper Tiger. Capt Fisher , in turn,  was shot down over China as the dog fight drifted over the Yalu River into China. He was returned by the  Chinese    Government in 1955. (ref 1)  The Kit:   This is the Fujimi  kit released in the 1980s under the Testors label  with decals provided by Repli-Scale.  The kit was painted with shades of Alclad ll.    RJ  Ref 1: Wikipedia article: Harold Fischer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Fischer

Here is the Tamiya F-51D depicting a Mustang assigned to the SC National Guard circa 1946-7. (The Air National Guard would come with the passing of the National Security Act of 1947 that established the Department of the Air Force.)  This is a great kit with a good fit and a wealth of details. I used no filler. It's painted in Alclad metal lacquers. The decals are from the  commemorative  decal sheet of the 2016 IPMS/USA National Convention held in Columbia, SC.   I tried the hair spray technique on the cockpit floor to replicate the black paint wearing off the plywood deck.   Deck got a coat of interior green, and the green portions were masked.  More masking to define the plywood deck then a shot of wood brown followed by a coat of hairspray.    Interior black applied to the cockpit and green masking removed. I exposed the wood color with a stiff nylon brush.  Complete Interior:  Complete:  REFS:  1 . F-51 Mustang Units over Korea ; Osprey Frontline olor #1, by Warren Thompson,