David W

That’s a lovely build, nice work on the bombs too 👏 Dave

I noticed that when building mine and also when viewed from the front, the real intakes have rounded edges bottom inner and upper outer corners where as the kits are square. A minor detail but I’ll probably make some full intake covers as now I’ve seen it! Great kit overall. David

Hoping the Telic Shark mouth decal is accurate! Neither Model Alliance decals or Hasegawa’s attempt were close enough for me. Dave

I plan to build another one without squadron markings and have the xtradecal post war serial letters and numbers in both black and white. Will dig them out and see how they match up with the Hasegawa serial numbers size wise. https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/X72157?result-token=SjNFe https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/X72158?result-token=SjNFe Dave

Also just realised you’re after the QRA aircraft markings rather than the meteors. I misread your heading! 🤦🏼‍♂️ Dave

I should mention there was a fair bit of trimming involved, think I used two separate/cut decals per brown band and they really took some work to adhere to the missiles air intakes. The bands are also not meant to join between the intakes as on the real thing. The black decals at front of missile were also sourced from the kit decal sheet and trimmed to size. More time spent on them than I’d have liked! 😅 Note the different configuration of the missiles front to rear, intakes facing inwards/outwards. Dave

Not sure what kit you are using but I used the Hasegawa aim-120 decals on mine as the bands supplied for the kits Meteors are too thin. Pig to fit due to the meteors complex shape but worth the effort.

Spectacular! Bought this kit after reading your wip thread which is hugely appreciated! Thank you. Dave

Nice work Dave, I have this kit in primer awaiting a few touch ups here and there. Bought it when first released so it’s been a long on and off build even by my standards! Probably not helped that I decided to have it in flight and drop the leading edge slats! 😑 Recently finished the Hasegawa 72nd kit which is far superior.

Ah so it is Dave! 🤐 Had it on backorder at Hannants for ever and still not in stock there. Hope the SM comes quicker.

I’d be excited but their Flanker B hasn’t arrived here yet so who knows when this one will arrive! 😭 😭

That is spot on! Great paint job 👏

Most likely. Their shark mouth decals for Harriers in operation Telic were incorrect too and the sheets were of poor quality in general.

There really isn’t to be honest, think I had to re scribe two panel lines on the engine nacelles. It was a joy to build and afterwards I went out and bought every variant Eduard produce in Weekend and Profipack! Cheers everyone for the comments! 💙 Dave

Straight from the box, a lovely kit to build! Think I paid about £8 for it 😎 Dave