Your Help Required.....

[LemonJello]

I'd suggest going with the blues/greys of the Atlantic scheme, but the NMF with nose art is a can't miss idea, too.

[philp]

If you want a desert one your timing is pretty good.
Both Glanini and Maverick have recently posted profiles.

[Mossie]

Done at least two of those - although me Sea Meteor was in the three colour scheme (EDSG/ Slate grey over Sky).  I've an RAAF one somewhere, although it's aluminium rather than foliage green.  By the time the Meteor was in service, I think Foliage green was being phased out.

Definately have a Banff Meteor though.

Think your right about the Foliage Green, it might just fit in for the F.3 (Mossies had it overall in late 1944, I think) but aluminium dope is more likely for the '45-'47 timescale Ian asked for.  I've just always liked the Aussie two tone green scheme!

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

So after three sittings totalling 90mins (or there about) since opening the box, this is where I am:






All the major construction done, with some luck I can get the insides sprayed this afternoon, if not it will wait 'till Sunday when I change over from days to nights. I'll leave the decision till then, so far everybody - and I do mean EVERYbody has come up with some really great suggestions....

Here's an idea for y'all, that's just occured to me - If it was being flown by the French (I have some appropriate decals), what scheme would look better - Standard RAF Ocean Grey/Dk Green/MSG or overall Aluminium ??

Ian

[ysi_maniac]

In such case: Overall Aluminium

[Radish]

If French....why not Olive Drab over Neutral Grey, like some of their P-47Ds?

I like the 9th AF USAAF idea, though.

Going completely "off the wall", a Turkish one in sand and spinach?

Finnish with post-war roundels?

If all else fails....Natural Metal, USAAF type stars/bars, but ISRAELI roundels super-imposed over the top??

[Brian da Basher]

Wow you certainly had your coffee, Ian! What a fantastic start! I still gotta vote for NMF and 9th Air Force, although a cool "yellow wings" scheme would look neat on it as well! Add a tail hook and 1930's U.S. Navy markings...

I'll get me coat.

Brian da Basher

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

No didn't get any painting done yesterday, got sidetracked into flying an hour or so on IL2 1946..... (That Japanese Yak-15 didn't have a chance against my Dutch F-80 !). Will be throwing some paint around on Sunday as mentioned.....

However, enthused by the stupidly easy build of the Meteor, I dug-out another Tamiya 1:48 beauty, ready to perform some 'paints kits differently' nonsense upon....

Not telling you anymore just yet, but here's the clues..... It's effing big (in 1:48) has more than one engine and will be painted in my newly copyrighted 'Scorched Earth' scheme  

Later....

Ian

[Radish]

Aaaaggghhh....the Blow Torch effect  

[NARSES2]

Bit late on thsi but -

SEAC with dark earth as Wookster suggest or

She is perfectly wellcome to join my growing post 1945 Regia Aeranautica

Chris

[Howard of Effingham]

and next we have the....  B) and a historically topical scheme

well i think i get where I-H-G is going here as can't you build this kit with one of
the engine cowlings opened up? if you can i await the finished result!  

why not go with shameless self promotion here and have I-H-G as the marking letters here as some personal aircraft of some 'little known' RAF wg/cdr  

keep up the good work ian!

trevor

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

why not go with shameless self promotion here and have I-H-G as the marking letters here as some personal aircraft of some 'little known' RAF wg/cdr  

Welllllll, most of you will be familiar with 'Widge' Gleed's Spit Vc (IR * G), that's fairly close and the very well known and outrageously colourful P-47D-30 'Tarheel Hal' is coded IA*N..... even closer AND it's a 9th AF unit  !

As far as I know 112 Sqn kept their GA code to the end of the war, so if I do a desert camo'd Meteor I'll keep the coding as is.

The SEAC one is wide open, I have some spare SEAC P-47 decals that would jus drop straight on.... we'll see. Hmmmmm French Aeronaval in glossy blue..... It would be a definite 'goer' except that I recently finished a Hasegawa Hellcat in that scheme and I'm looking for something different this time, having said all of that, I do have a second Tamiya F3 in the stash......  

Keep the ideas and opinions coming, a quick straw poll tells me that the NMF 9th AF machine and the Desert coloured one are just about joint first.... decisions, decisions.

Ian

[HOG]

Oh so many good ideas    Hows about a desert finish photo recon with a sharkmouth and starzinbarz and posted to Korea with a winter wash.

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

Well tonight is decision time, and if I listened to you lot, I'd have to paint one side in the desert scheme with half a sharks mouth and the other half in NMF with some really colourful nose-art, stripes etc.... My not-so-proper poll came out a dead-heat !

As mentioned previously I do have two of these superb kits in the stash, so I will force m'self to do the two ! Dont know which one of the schemes will be first as sitting in the paintshed at the moment is a NMF Tamiya P-47 (with one coat of Alclad II already on) and a Hasegawa P-40 that is waiting for me to start throwing some desert colours at it !.... So it really is a 50/50 decision. S'pose it is entirely dependant upon how I feel at that moment  

Well, it was so nice here today we went for a long walk so no painting, will make a supreme effort to drag my lazy a*se into the shed tomorrow afternoon..... if I make it, then all bets are off !

Thanks once again, all, the progress pics will be posted here over the next couple of weeks.

Ian

[nev]

Ian, back when arrived here in a blaze of glory, you had 2 "attractions" going on.  One was your Eurovision Wars, the second was a 9th AF Meteor.....

I've been waiting on the latter for years, please put me out of my misery!