The Meteor Channel at iModeler (33 articles)

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On This Day…March 5th

by david leigh-smith on March 5, 2019
in News — 5 Comments

The USS Seal (SS-183) during her trials, off Provincetown, United States, 5th March, 1938. Seal left for her fifth (of a final count of twelve war patrols) tour on 24 Oct heading for the Palau Islands. On 16 Nov, she intercepted a convoy of f[...]

Jet Age Museum in Gloucestershire part 2

by Michael Gosse on March 3, 2019
in Aviation — 14 Comments

Dear iModelers! I was thinking about continuing one of my last articles about the Jet Age Museum. During a wonderful road trip through the southwestern part of Britain in 2017, I got the chance to visit the Jet Age Museum in Gloucestershire wher[...]

Airfix 1/48 Gloster Meteor F. 8

by Scott Nelson on February 15, 2019
in Aviation — 9 Comments

Here’s my version of the Airfix Gloster Meteor F. 8. Much has been written about this kit so I won’t bore you with more of the same. This makes kit number four for the year.

Final builds of the year – Airfix Sea Fury and Meteor FR9

by Alan Price on December 31, 2018
in Aviation — 16 Comments

Here are a few photos of my final builds for the year (not strictly true but I cant show you the very last one yet!) which are the Airfix 1:48 Sea Fury and the Airfix 1:48 Gloster Meteor FR.9. The Sea Fury has the Barracuda wheels and cockpit p[...]

Airfix 1/48 Gloster Meteor F.8

by Boris Rakic on December 16, 2018
in Aviation — 23 Comments

Here's my contribution to the "100 Years of the Royal Air Force" Group build. The Airfix kit left me with somewhat mixed feelings - on one hand it is nicely detailed and goes together well for the most part, on the other hand it suffers from a [...]

Meteor Prototype DG202

by Julian Shawyer on December 13, 2018
in Aviation — 21 Comments

This is the Tamiya 1/48th scale Meteor F.1. I made this when it was first released 18 years ago (1997). It came in for a lot of criticism at the time because it had air brakes, and the Meteor F.1 had none. It transpired that Tamiya had based t[...]

On This Day…November 7th.

by david leigh-smith on November 7, 2018
in News — 13 Comments

Originally a passenger ship for operating on the Black Sea, the hospital ship 'Armenia' was sunk on 7th November 1941 by a German torpedo armed Heinkel He 111 while evacuating civilians, hospital staff, and wounded soldiers from the Crimea. Even[...]

1/48 Airfix Gloster Meteor F.8

by Eric Berg on June 26, 2018
in Aviation — 14 Comments

I’ve had a great time building the last few years’ worth of 1/48th Airfix new tools, so I figured why not give their 2016 issue Gloster Meteor F.8 a go. I assumed this kit would live up to the ease of Airfix’s recent Spitfires, P-51D, Defiant, [...]

1/48 Gloster Meteor F.8

by John Healy on February 10, 2018
in Aviation — 28 Comments

This is the second issue of the recent Airfix kit. It includes markings for two RAAF 77 Sq. Korean War veterans and a Dutch aerobatic team example. This issue also differs from the initial RAF release in that it includes eight 60lb. rockets. [...]

Tamiya Meteor and Doodlebug

by Julian Shawyer on September 8, 2017
in Aviation — 30 Comments

This is the 1/48th scale Tamiya Gloster Meteor F1 & Fieseler Fi103 V-1 flying bomb mounted on a simple Perspex stand. Both models were built straight from the box. The only alteration is the pilot. His head was removed and turned to look to [...]