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Neuling
Top work! 👍👍

Villiers de Vos
Fantastic work.

gorby
Nice work!

Rui S
Great work 👍

Shar Dipree
Fantastics. 👍

Bohrmann
Very good. Great paintjob.

Neil
Lovely!

Pietro De Angelis
Fantastic build and dio,
also admired on track-link,
congrats!

Bruce Huxtable
Immaculate!

Clement
Hi guys,

This is the venerable Xtrakit/MPM/Special Hobby Gloster Meteor F.8 which has since been superseded by Airfix offering but I had it in stock and I figured "how bad can it be?".

Back in 2006, 18 year old me had been blown away by Brett Green's build on Hyperscale which convinced me to order the kit straight from Hannants.
Well folks, Mr Green makes it look easy.

As a short run first-timer, I wasn't ready for the amount of sanding, cutting, filling and scratch-building needed to get this kit to look passable.

I don't think it's my best effort but I'm glad it's now across the finish line and I'll gladly avoid short-run kits in the future 🙂

Have a great day and happy modelling!

gorby
Beautiful!

Neuling
The finish is: beautiful 🙂

Clement
Thank you guys, highly appreciated 🙂

Guy Rump
Excellent job! 👍

Clement
Thank you Guy.

Kesa Tiho
Very nice. Looks like you werent lying when you told me you buy a kit and then spiral out of control buying aftermarket kits 😄

Clement
Thanks Kesa. I wouldn't even call this one "out of control", it can get so much worse once resin gets involved 😄

Marius
And another exotic scheme from you with the casual flawless metallic finish. It's so easy, right?

I have the Special Hobby Mk8/9. I wasn't aware there is some better offering from Airfix. Is the Airfix trully much better?

Clement
Thank you Marius. I haven't build the Airfix kit but people who have build it and the MPM kit all praise the newer british kit.
The MPM kit is pretty good for a short-run kit but suffers from short-run issues.
Trailing edges are thick, there are hardly any locating tabs, some details have to be scratch-built etc. Not a beginner's kit.

Metallic liveries using lacquers really isn't that hard if you ask me. To me, it's easier than trying to replicate a 3 or 4 tones camouflage with accuracy.
On this build, I first airbrushed Mr surfacer 1500, polished it with cloth, then Mr Color GX2 gloss black and finally A-stand (Alclad) White aluminium.
The finish result is very tough and can be manipulated easily.

Claudio Nascimento
Congratulations!! Beautiful work. 🙂

Robert Podkoński
Beautiful indeed.

B. M.
Amazing job on this one too Clement. Not your everyday Meteor!
In the box, the kit looks okay, but indeed, once you're in the building process, you start to figure out a where the tough spots are.
I remember especially the engine pods…they really took some special care.
Your Meteor looks superb, no trace of a short run kit anymore.

Sven Schönyan
Still way to clean but finished so far.

Zbynek Honzik
Clean job. 👍

Oleg Bogolei
exellent model! unattainable level of neatness and cleanliness))

Sven Schönyan
Thank you very much Zbynek and Oleg!

DerMattes
Looks fantastic! 👍

Sven Schönyan
Thank you Mattes!

Alex
Schön geworden, die Bucc! Schöner Nebeneffekt - fast keine Decals!

Guy Rump
Great result. 👍

Tibor Szilvai
Superb Buc! 👍

Sven Schönyan
Thanks Alex, Guy and Tibor!

Ronan
Very nice paint job , Swen
Which paint did you use ?

Sven Schönyan
Thank you Ronan!

I´ve used Real Colour RC043 British Desert Pink over grey One Shot primer.

Ronan
Thank you Sven
Very convincing result 👍

Łukasz Gliński
Very neat 👍

Sven Schönyan
Thanks Lukasz!

一生还一夜
A masterpiece

Sven Schönyan
Thank you!

Denis Dogadov
Airfix has very large stitching lines, so you probably shouldn't have highlighted them that way.

Mid Franconian
Very nice Buccaneer! I like the panel line highlighting.

Sven Schönyan
Thank you guys!

Maksim Kurmaz
Very nice aircraft. the color is so cool. With so contrast panel lines it looks a bit artificial, but its probably better than dull. Congrats!

Sven Schönyan
Thank you Maksim! Yes, the panel lines are very dark which is due to the deep engravings of the kit. I´m still playing around with the washings but get alsways stuck to either dark brown or starship filth. Depending on the topic and body colours I tone them down with a lighter grey or black in some cases.

I should have created some more shadows and grime according to pictures of the real thing but there´s still much to learn for me when working with oils (and to overcome myself and just do it).

AndreasK
Started this little side project as contribution to the "November Project" Group build of the Abenteuer Modellbau podcast.

Really no joy this little kit from the 70s. I cannot understand why companies (Heller in this case) pack this together with glue and paint as starter kits. This shall better be called "starter repellent" as it keeps away everyone trying to find a new enjoyable hobby.