Thursday 26 July 2012

F-Toys 1/144 - Gloster Meteor F.1 - Completed -

F-Toys 1/144 - Gloster Meteor F.1 - Completed 1

The Royal Air Force's first operational jet fighter, modelled as the first Meteor to wing tip a V-1 Flying bomb, EE216 flown by Flying Officer Dean of 616 Squadron.

Re-modelled F-Toys gasphon using spare decals from some Sweet Hurricanes and the lettering which came with the toy which turned out to be really nice, originally thought they looked cheap but i was proven wrong. To make the black rectangles between the fuselage and jet engines i had to cut up the black border line from a decal sheet, only small black lines i could find.

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Actual original tail tip...
www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/30084546 

F-Toys 1/144 - Gloster Meteor F.1 - Completed 3

Used the blu-tac but using white-tac to airbrush the camo-patten.

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Used tamiya weathering master lightly along all the panel lines trying to get the 3D effect.

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For a remodel of a "toy" im super happy with the result.
Ian

5 comments:

Dazzio said...

Very impressive dude, love the paintwork on it. Altho some might argue it's too "hard", meh to them. I likes a lot :) Gotta ask tho, where do you keep all of these completed models??

Dazz

chrismandesign said...

agree !!! great job with "just" a gashapon (lately the gashapons have great details indeed)... looks very realistic... =)

Ant Sized Man said...

Thank you.
Storing these is no problem, since there so small i keep them packed in a tool box. Great thing about 1/144 is not having to worry about space.

Dennis aka Katsuden said...

Using blutag as camo masking. Good idea! I must try one of these days. Great work on a small scaled plane.

bluedonkey99 said...

ASM

Nice work, good looking aircraft!

BD99