The Meteor Channel at iModeler (41 articles)

The Meteor Channel at iModeler

Gloster Meteor

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Gloster Meteor, the nose job one.

by Jimmy Zed on September 27, 2020
in Aviation — 18 Comments

What is it with Airfix and noses? Their Sea Fury i just completed recently is a bit of a shocker and now this. I suppose it keeps one busy instead of just stick part a to part b type of deal, but it is a tad annoying. Anyway, besides that it isn[...]

Gloster Meteor F.8 at Försökscentralen

by Stellan Schroeder Englund on September 5, 2020
in Aviation — 16 Comments

The Försökscentralen (Test & Evaluation squadron) is a lesser known part of the Swedish air force. It tests flying materiel, tactics and equipment. Although it probably got less money in the budge than Pentagon use for paperclips in a year, [...]

Special Hobby 1/72 Gloster Meteor “World Speed Record”

by Alistair Gauld on August 26, 2020
in Aviation — 18 Comments

Hi There, A small diversion form building for Innis by sticking together one for myself. Primed with Mr. Hobby Finishing Surfacer White, Painted with Colourcoats RAF/FAA Yellow, Xtreme Metals Aluminium and Tamiya rubber Black. Finished with Al[...]

A Meteor’s Engine

by Stellan Schroeder Englund on August 7, 2020
in Aviation — 8 Comments

While struggling with completion of Airfix' Gloster Meteor F.8 the included Derwent is a model in itself. It's not bigger than 20 mm x 35 mm but certainly will be an eye catcher on the side. Finnished in Vallejo colours throughout and a bit of o[...]

Airfix 1/48 Gloster Meteor F.8

by Predrag Ivanovic on July 26, 2020
in Aviation — 10 Comments

Nice Airfix model, except of nose cone mounting everything was smooth. Hope you like it. Cheers!!

Aussie Sea Fury

by Jimmy Zed on July 10, 2020
in Aviation — 40 Comments

This one has a fairly unusual peace time 'kill'.. On the morning of 30th August 1955, one of the oddest 'shoot downs' in the history of military aviation occurred; No 805 Squadron would be called upon to fire on an unusual 'enemy' in the skies [...]

Airfix Mk1 Tank “Mother ” Dio 1/72

by neil foster on April 10, 2020
in Diorama — 7 Comments

Hi to all of you iModellers, it's been a while since I posted anything but as I'm stuck indoors along with the rest of the world I decided it was a good time to catch up. This is my interpretation of the original picture showing the prototype Mk[...]

Suez Crisis…Airfix 1/48 Gloster Meteor F.8 Israeli Airforce

by Reinhard Spreitzhofer on January 3, 2020
in Aviation — 5 Comments

Built in 2017. The Meteors were Israel´s first jet aircraft and they served in the No.117 Squadron which was also called the "First Jet Squadron". Airfix kit, Isradecals, Vallejo Metal Color Aluminium, antennas on spine are scratch.

Gloster Meteor F(TT).8

by Joseph Fenech on December 22, 2019
in Aviation — 11 Comments

Airfix 1/48 Meteor F.8 finished as a F(TT).8. Decals-xtradecals

Gloster Meteor F8 1/48 Airfix

by neil foster on April 20, 2019
in Aviation — 19 Comments

Well here we are with another rendition of Airfix's new Meteor this time as you can see in markings for an aircraft flown by the Israeli airforce. It is nice to see another 1/48 Meteor available to us and I must admit to getting a little giddy w[...]