rossm Posted April 12, 2017 Share Posted April 12, 2017 31 minutes ago, tempestfan said: The Airfix 3 is their 1970 rivet monster. They reboxed an MPM kit (8 IIRC), but that was ca. 10 years ago. The Airfix 1/72 F8 was a rebox of the MPM kit which appeared in the UK under the Xtrakit label. Checking Hannants it is still available as an Xtrakit or an MPM kit, the latter being upgraded versions with resin and etch at twice the cost. The Airfix III has also appeared boxed as a 'Dogfight Double' with a V1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Work In Progress Posted April 12, 2017 Share Posted April 12, 2017 4 hours ago, MilneBay said: I turned one into a MKIV many years ago - couldn't find an example of the Frog one at the time. That's lovely, that is. How did you do the big nacelles? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilneBay Posted April 12, 2017 Share Posted April 12, 2017 (edited) 20 hours ago, Work In Progress said: That's lovely, that is. How did you do the big nacelles? Thanks, they came from the then very new Matchbox NF11/12/14 kit with lots of filling and sanding. After I had finished it there was a sudden resurgence in the amounts of the Frog/Novo MkIV which is always the way Edited April 13, 2017 by MilneBay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilneBay Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 And this is one of the very late MkIIIs with the extended nacelles. Cobbled together by me some years back from Matchbox and Frog parts. I was using up bits left over from a doing a T Mk 7. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Work In Progress Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 Very nice. I have sooo many Meteor kits, not sure why, but I can't resist them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phat trev Posted April 13, 2017 Author Share Posted April 13, 2017 10 hours ago, Work In Progress said: Very nice. I have sooo many Meteor kits, not sure why, but I can't resist them. I think perhaps the meteor just looks right (all variants!, most schemes too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilneBay Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 I'm also a bit of a Meteor fan myself - there's just something about the old girl. This is a T Mk 7 cobbled together from left overs - it isn't the Aeroclub conversion. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rossm Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 On 13/04/2017 at 9:46 AM, Work In Progress said: Very nice. I have sooo many Meteor kits, not sure why, but I can't resist them. Me too, must be something about it, I'm not enthused by Hunters but I could build Meteors all day. 5 built and 8 in the stash! Aiming to cover all UK Marks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hook Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 On 12-4-2017 at 8:21 AM, rossm said: Checking Hannants it is still available as an Xtrakit or an MPM kit, the latter being upgraded versions with resin and etch at twice the cost. The "Hi-Tech" boxing replaces the stock MPM plastic cockpit, wheel wells etc. with resin - @phat trev, perhaps you could ask around in the Spares Bin section, the leftover bits might be used to upgrade the Airfix F.3. HTH, Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rossm Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 (edited) I've now laid hands on the Terrance Marriott article and checked most of the references he gives, also a couple that were not available to him. For detail the Modeller's Datafile on the Meteor is pretty comprehensive with drawing and photos of cockpits, undercarriage and engines (photos are from preserved aircraft). There doesn't seem to be much detail in any of the other books - except I haven't been able to check the RAF Yearbook for 1984, the one Marriott reference I haven't got my hands on. I'll try and scan the article and some of the Datafile over the weekend - please PM me your email address. In the meantime see what you can find in Flight magazine e.g. 1944/5 search I also found a few more Meteor kits so that's 11 in the stash! Edited April 15, 2017 by rossm Brain sends the words but the fingers can't spell them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 Not sure how many I have salted away, but it's well into double figures... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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