Graham T

Fine for things like undercarriages, ordinance & other small details but I wouldn't recommend painting ANY airframe parts before gluing, filling, sanding etc.

Just completed & probably the best fitting model I've encountered!

Lovely job! Nice weathering.

Love it! I'm on the home straight with an "A" model & everything you say about the fit I agree with!

IIRC Xtracolour provide these colours but as enamels.

Two lovely models! Fond memories of nailing both these together as a kid!

Currently working on the original release but will grab one of these!

The Mark I was a rather agricultural looking plane with a 3 piece (?) canopy & square topped fins & rounded wingtips. Thereafter, the canopy changed to a two piece affair. Mks 2&3 retained rounded wingtips, thereafter square tips. On the later marks, the only really visible differences may have been weapons carried (i.e., bombs/rockets/tanks). This ignores "foreign" Vampires such as Swiss (which you mentioned) & the French. Others may know more or other subtle differences but HTH in the meantime.

Lovely. Is that Light Aircraft Grey? Unusual scheme I've not previously seen on a Meteor.

Brilliant job! I can't believe that is brush painted! How do you get such a uniform & smooth surface?

Very, VERY nice job!!!

Wow! Brilliant! (wish I could weather )

I wasn't aware of this stuff but I use their gloss black all the time for metal finishes base coat & if it's as good as that it's worth a try - especially with an anti-flash finish V -Bomber as a possible next project! As you can see I've used Xtracolour here over the bare plastic - takes a few coats but acceptable! The landing gear I first sprayed gloss black to provide bit of "preshading" which all but disappeared beneath the white!

Tamiya 1/48 F-14A & there's a LOT of white to paint. I pretty much lay awake last night dreading the fact that I needed to get this done today. As it happens it wasn't as bad as I feared but still took the best part of two tins of Xtracolour to achieve an acceptable result!

Lots of fond memories from 30 or so years ago of the Hasegawa F-14 kits. I remember that they were a bit of a struggle in places. Now of course we have the Tamiya kit which I am currently building & it goes together like a dream, however, I do miss the option to build it with dropped slats & flaps that you got with the Hasegawa kits! Suppose you can't have everything!

Knockout!

I'm at about the same stage with mine - just attached the intake trunking to the fuselage. I have to say that although the fit is generally excellent, I do find the detail in the cockpit - specifically the side walls & panels - a bit on the "soft" side & not really what I'd have expected from Tamiya. Just me?

I remember that flight deck ladder because many years ago as an ATC Cadet, I was standing at the top of it- totally unsecured! - behind the flight crew of a 115 squadron machine out of Cottesmore when we landed!

Built MANY Hasegawa F-4s & NEVER needed nose weight!!

Fantastic job!!!!

I built this earlier this year & it is a REAL struggle - especially around the jet pipes! Nice job you're making of it!

Well, while the chances of Airfix doing it are slim, the chances of a Tamiya, Kinetic or Hasegawa Scimitar have to be VANISHINGLY small!

That's STUNNING!!!!!!!!

Aha! That's good to know, I didn't actually LOOK at the parts, just the instructions! Cheers!

Looks good, first one of these KITS I've seen built for a LONG time!