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  1. On evening of the 25th May 1986 my dad called me into the living room, the news was on he said the vintage pair had crashed. As a keen young 15 year old aviation enthusiast I was well aware of the vintage pair and had seen them at airshows on many occasions. It was shortly after that I decided to build models of both the vintage pair XH304 & WA669. The only mainstream injection moulded Vampires in those days was the Heller & Novo ones, both single seaters, I did obtain both Merlin & ID models T11s, but were well beyond my skills and never got built. So the project stalled and my modelling then was put on a back burner with to post school teenage life. Now Airfix has released the T11 the project has been re-awakened. I have also the Pavla and Eduard enhancement sets, I did originally plan to just use just the Pavla stuff but nearly all pics of parked T11s show the flaps down so I decided to build it flaps down too, So the Eduard set was ordered for that, I will also use Eduard instrument panel. There is also plenty of other detail on the Eduard set but I'm not too sure about their inspection panel covers think adding PE ones would make them stand too proud of the surface. Took a trip to Newark last week to get some pics of the T11 there, and also took a colour sample card to match the Grays and yellows. So plan is Xtracolor X15 for the grey and Humbrol HU69 for the yellow, they seemed the best match. From pic I've found of XH304 the inside of the flaps were grey, does anyone know if the inside of the flap bays was grey too? Standard obligatory kit shot:- Thanks for looking Mark Edit 16th Sept 2014 Meteor WA669 build started here
  2. Thought I'd better get the ball rolling on this to go along with my Vampire T11 XH304 build. Basic kit is the MPM Meteor T7 Quick summery of what I've done so far. The MPM kit has a one piece canopy, going to build this canopy open so have mounted the kit canopy on a bit of balsa and made a cast of it for the first stage of making a vacuum mould for it. The resin cockpit insert of the MPM kit gives very little room to cut out a space to get the suggested 3g of weight in, so I've cast a custom shaped white metal weight to get the maximum use of the space. A mould was made of the nose of the insert and a cast made of it. From that cast a section was cut out was then made from it that weighed 0.5g this when cast in white metal will weigh 3.5 g. I then made a mould of the cut out and cast it from white metal. The white metal cast weighed 3.3g so wasn't far off. A corresponding cut out was made in the cockpit insert and the weight glued in with CA. Quick centre of gravity test today with blobs of white tack stuck in appropriate paces represent the 2.4g of the tail and 0.5g for the engine tailcones suggests it wont be a tail sitter and its balance point is just forward of the mainwheels. I asked on another thread if anyone had ever fitted the Eduard flaps intended for a Dragon /Cyberhobby meteor to the MPM wing but didnt get any answers however I did learn who Finbar Saunders is though. Ordered one anyway so will with a bit of plastic butchering I'll try and give it a go. Thanks for looking Mark
  3. With all this Airfix 2013 kerfuffle going on and the forthcoming Vampire kit, I'm reminded of airshows when the Vintage Pair were around. I distinctly remember them screaming around the sky really close to each other and so different to most of the other 'modern' stuff. Inspired by these memories, I'm mentally prepping a Vintage Pair dio (perhaps) of the new Vampire & a Meteor. Here's where I could do with your help, fellow BMers. I've got an old Matchbox NF xx kit that I could use, but was keeping to do a Fradu TT20 tug. Is there a bespoke T7 kit available or is the Matchbox kit 'convertible'. Something to whet the appetite...
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