My eighth Meteor build since I restarted modelling in January is a conversion: the MPM F.8 combined with the Alley Cat resin conversion for a U.16 or U.21.
This has been my first resin conversion and was most impressed with the quality of Alley Cat's product. When it came to the decals, they were superb, very detailed, thin but not fragile and adhered well.
This is a comparatively simple conversion, requiring replacement of the nose and wingtips, neither a 'biggie'. I went for a model of WK800, now in the Old Sarum collection and famously long-lived as the last U.16 to fly. I could';t resist adding the lumps and bumps applied to the airframe in 1988 for the Radar Vector Miss Distance Indicator Trials. I think the domes are slightly overscale but I wasn't going to argue.
The paint job was pretty straightforward except for the demarcation between the two colours ahead of the cockpit. I think the yellow goes too low and the shape of the taper there won't clinch me the IPMS Nationals. One thing I have omitted (yet) are a set of metal tubes to form the jet pipes.
Here we go:
Kind regards,
Neil