Toby's Meteoric Mk4. FINISHED

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Nice! The hi-vis stripes must have been fun!
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Beautiful!
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It's a beauty! The flat silver looks good.
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8-) Very nice indeed Toby
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Oooh that does look very good.
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That's one nice Meteor!
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Thanks guys. Progress on hold today due to this. :mrgreen:

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Not envious at all......not a tiny bit.......

Ok, totally envious!!
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I'll pretend I have not seen it :) otherwise I would have to run in circles out of envy. :)
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And it's a bloody tail sitter :oops:
I had a sneaking feeling it was going to be. Should've put more weight aft of the cockpit :roll:

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Need to use a lot more gloss as the finish is nowhere near as good as I'd hoped due to a slight incident with dust, an open window and freshly applied varnish. Never happened before. :shock:
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All done. I'll post some more pictures in the aviation forum

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You did a splendid job on it. I like it a lot.
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Looks blooming marvelous. Great build.

How did you cure the tail sitting?
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Old_Tonto wrote:Looks blooming marvelous. Great build.

How did you cure the tail sitting?
I stuck a pin into the fuselage just behind the rear wing hence no shots from that angle ;-)
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:ha: :ha: :ha: A cunning plan. ;-)
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