the huge variety of projects Philip had been
working on, or which were lined up awaiting
his skilled attentions. There were a handful of
prop models, but the vast majority were jets,
with some of the most impressive models cur-
rently available adorning the shelves, and
some superbly finished models approaching
completion for their proud new owners.
Philip will be doing all of the finishing work on
Ali’s Meteor, commencing with priming the
entire model, before adding rivet, panel line
and fastener details, prior to painting in Ali’s
chosen colour scheme and then weathering.
What takes just a minute to write will in fact
take a huge number of hours for Philip to
complete, particularly given the size of the
Meteor, which means that every small detail
will be visible - models built to a smaller scale
generally need far less of this detail work, as
many of the smaller details are too small to
be visible. We will be showing more of
Philip’s work on the Meteor in a future issue,
but a few photos are included in this article,
just to whet the appetite!
Moving back to my example; at the time of
writing we are deep in the middle of a U.K.
winter and (unlike Philip), I do not have a
heated and insulated workshop large enough
for the model, so things have come to a halt
until better weather allows us to get back to
work. Currently the model is ready for the
panel lines to be added, and some time has
been spent with straightedges, laser levels,
and pencils, to draw the panel line positions
onto the airframe. As soon as things warm up
we are ready to apply the lining tape, and
then use primer to spray along the tape lines,
ready for the tape to be removed, to leave
what we hope will be perfect panel lines.
In closing for this article, I would like to thank
Ali for his immense patience with the Meteor
project - neither he or I had any idea how long
it would take, with many delays along the
way, some of which were down to factors
beyond our control, for example the retracts
became a saga unto themselves! AdditionalInstrument panel and gunsight installed.View of the left hand side of the cockpit, which includes the (dummy) engine start buttons.The right hand side of the cockpit carries most
of the switches and levers found in a Meteor.METEOR F.8
There are a large number of leads to connect to the
PowerBox Mercury, these all having labels atta-
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