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G-ASLW served with the RAF as WS829 before being sold to Rolls-Royce in September 1963 for use as a photographic chase plane. It was sold in July 1969 and after it was attempted to illegally export the aircraft to the Biafran Air Force ran short of fuel and ditched in the sea off the Cape Verde Islands. This is the old Matchbox Meteor NF14 with home made decals.

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Thanks for looking.

Steve
 

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I drew the artwork in CorelDraw and after a couple of test prints on normal paper to check size and shape, printed it onto decal paper. I've got a laser printer that takes a white toner cartridge so those parts were printed on that whilst the dark blue ones were printed on my inkjet printer.

 

Steve

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The most eye-catching civil scheme seen in quite some time.

 

Very interesting back story too. The things some people get up to is amazing (I refer to the pilot and the organisers of that last flight).

 

Michael

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Very nice build of a less than perfect kit. I remember seeing this aircraft and the Spitfire in the Rolls-Royce house colours over our house at Mapperley when I was a plane mad teenager. 

 

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