`Gloster Meteor III ´
The first officially operational jet combat aircraft of the Royal Air Force in 1944.
The Gloster Meteor came into service shortly before the Messerschmitt 262,
and around about the same time as the Arado 234 started flying missions.

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The fit was as close to perfect as any other kitset I have encountered A little addition to the sparse cockpit. The radioset is fictional.
The kit comes with the usual one piece pilot figure, seat, backwall and instrument panel with decal for instrument panel detail.
A bit of cardboard and small bit of balsa filled in behnd the pilot as a radio set and a thin length of sprue made an adequate control stick.

Fuselage and interior parts fitted together incredibly well.
I am building this kit with undercarriage retracted, and the doors fitted snuggly into place.
Everything fits near perfect Humbrol 163 and 106 camouflage the top Generic version of decals applied
The rest fits together without any problems.
When reading other reviews of this kit, the only complaint was about the fit of the canopy.
I didn't encounter any nasty problem, so I must assume Airfix have fixed that problem.

An overall finish of microflat unified the glossy Humbrol 163 and matt Humbrol 106.
The painting guide indicates Humbrol 165 for the underside, but that didn't seem the right colour, instead I used Humbrol 64, a light grey.

The decals went on very well, clinging to every detail beneath them.
Options for three aircraft are provided on the decal sheet, including wartime and post war roundels.

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Review of Airfix 1/72 scale Gloster Meteor III.

ADDENDUM oct 2007

With the return of Airfix. This kit has been reissued
and now includes a V1 flying bomb.


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