Aircraft Tug w/J-47 Engine

[Scale-Master]

This is from an old 1/32^nd scale Hasegawa F-86F Sabre kit.  I found it in my Dad's collection and always had been intrigued by that tug (going back 50 years…).  Unfortunately there were no instructions in the kit, and the only ones I found online did not include the tug or the engine so I just test fitted the parts until it was done.  The tubing is old Tamiya material from motorcycle kits.

WIP:

 

 

[Lucius Molchany]

Cool I have been following your progress on the FSM Foru(Gene Rowe here)Great job and it would be nice if more kits had the added parts like this tug 

[slusher]

Awesome engine!

[Old Nasty]

Very cool.  A very interesting subject.

[cobraman]

Excellent.

[stavanzer]

Man, I saw similar Tugs towing engines on the flight lines daily for most of my time in the Air Force. Ours were Olive Drab, and the big P&W F100 is huge compared to the Sabre engine, but wow that brings back memories. All it needs is a Crew Chief, in a T-Shirt driving the thing!

Man, Mark you hit Dead Center on this project! Thanks!

[LDO]

I opened this expecting a J47 powered aircraft tug. 

[TooOld]

Very cool tug and great looking engine !  I also remember these tugs while in the USAF , thanks for the memories !

[PappyD340]

Very nice!