Airfix
1/48 Meteor F.8
Kit A09182
Control
surfaces are installed. I sanded down the rivet detail a bit on
the surfaces, it seemed a bit too prominent but looks good now. A
very small amount of Perfect Plastic Putty
was used around the gun bay doors. The windscreen seems to want
to sit a little high, some plastic was carved from its base so it would
fair into the fuselage better.
Little
things, nothing serious. The ejection seat had been installed
with white glue. When I test fit the sliding canopy I found that
the armor on the back of the seat interfered a little
in
the closed position. It was easier to mask off the cockpit with
the seat out so it was removed. The instructions have you install
the nose gear at this point, but that makes for the
possibility
of damaging it later in the build. My plan is to put the nose on
with white glue and paint the airplane, then remove it and install the
nose gear.
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