Paul's PJ Meteor NF.11 **FINISHED**

Post by **JamesPerrin** » July 22nd, 2013, 11:03 pm

Looks like you've got the fit problems licked.

Post by **PaulBradley** » July 23rd, 2013, 1:26 am

Cheers, guys - but it was way more work than I was expecting....

Post by **Softscience** » July 23rd, 2013, 4:20 am

Way to persevere Paul. The meteor is turning out quite nicely. It is light years ahead of the old matchbox kit I tried to build a few years ago.

That one had sucky fit too.

Post by **PaulBradley** » July 23rd, 2013, 12:13 pm

Cheers, Ralph - I haven't tried my Matchbox yet, but I've heard ugly rumours...

bluesteel · Post by **bluesteel** » July 23rd, 2013, 1:28 pm

PaulBradley wrote:Cheers, Ralph - I haven't tried my Matchbox yet, but I've heard ugly rumours...

The Matchbox kit I built for the NF14 was nowhere near as bad a fit as I'd been led to believe. But your PJ NF.11 is light years ahead as far as detail is concerned. It looks like it'll turn out very nicely the way you are going so far.

Post by **PaulBradley** » July 24th, 2013, 2:16 am

Thanks, Julian.

Oh, my eyes.....

That's an hour of my life I'll never get back....

Got the cockpit bits in:

Next step is to glue the canopy on and start spraying the upper surfaces.

Post by **PaulBradley** » July 26th, 2013, 2:46 am

Added the canopy, then a coat of black over the cockpit region to represent the interior framing, finally a coat of Dark Sea Grey on top.

Should get a camo coat of Dk Green on Sat AM, then a sprint to the finish!

Post by **PaulBradley** » July 27th, 2013, 9:02 pm

Green on and she's unmasked:

A bit of touching up to do here and there, but not too bad. Need to mask off to paint the black radome. Tomorrow.

Canopy turned out pretty well - I'm pleased:

Martin R · Post by **Martin R** » July 27th, 2013, 9:05 pm

PaulBradley wrote:Canopy turned out pretty well - I'm pleased:

I reckon you've got every right to be; she's looking rather nice!

regards,

Martin

TomW · Post by **TomW** » July 27th, 2013, 10:44 pm

Cor I like that a lot Paul, looks great.

Regards

Tom

Post by **splash** » July 27th, 2013, 11:51 pm

Well done Paul you have mad an ugly a/c look pretty.

Regards Splash

Post by **PaulBradley** » July 28th, 2013, 12:03 am

As long as I don't make a pretty aircraft mad....

Cheers, guys. Almost ready for decals......

Wookie13 · Post by **Wookie13** » July 28th, 2013, 8:48 am

I seem to be out of step with many, but I prefer the early NF & trainers with the framed canopy to the late bubble models.

Post by **jssel** » July 28th, 2013, 1:56 pm

Great work all around Paul.

aeroplanegripper · Post by **aeroplanegripper** » July 28th, 2013, 4:11 pm

That's looking really good Paul, I didn't realise what a big aircraft that NF meteor was. Nice one.

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