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Airfix 1/48 Meteor - bright and stripey


Pagey

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Very  nice kit to build.  The only problem part of the build was the join between the fuselage and top wings. Unusually the join of the bottom wing was perfect to the fuselage.  The decals for the coloured stripes (and codes) were xtradecals.  The bang seat was also an resin after market one.

 

This was the first time using mig ammo Panel line wash.  I was very very impressed with it. really brought the model to life

 

I scratch built the engine intake covers (the rear ones are which are eduar 1/48 spitfire wheel hubs)

Fancied something other than the usual grey/green.

 

32129340474_884c902d70_z.jpg20170218_131518 by Richard Page, on Flickr

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Exquisite job - really fine on the paint work and the panel lines are suitably restrained.

I'm just about to add to the gluttony of Meteors with a Chivenor example similar to your scheme but in the HS Silver.

Thanks for further inspiration (And I 've just got some Mig Ammo Blue Black line wash too!;))

Rob

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Oh yes, I'm loving that. I've got a thing for target tugs and I can see I'm going to have to add one of those at some point. Quick question if I may; what's going on with that open panel next to the cockpit? Is that part of the stock kit or did you open it?

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Thanks for the lovely comments guys.

 

Glynn - the decals are nice, they conform nicely to the curves with a bit of encouragement from Micro sol.  The only thing to watch for is if you are going to try to bend the decals around the wing edge, the decals get rather brittle and I really struggled to make them do what I wanted (the only down side of the decals).  The roundels are the kit one, however I had to nick a pair of roundels from another kit as there were only four of the smaller roundels on the kit decal sheet and I needed 6

 

Goggsy - the open panel below the cockpit is the gun bay.  You can open both sides if you want.  Don't know how I forgot to take a pic of the area.

 

 

 

oh.  Just got back from the Shuttleworth model show.  This model won the 1/48 catagory in the competition.  First time I have won a competition so am very pleased.

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