Revealed: Top Secret Gloster "Meteor" Derivative!

[John Howling Mouse]

See also the build-thread (which I will be updating with more in-progress pics & text):  http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,8242.msg109321.html#msg109321

Look at this old news article I found from the 1950's.  It's a bit yellowed with age but clean and crisp as the day it was printed (magic, ain't it?).





I began this one on Dec. 31, 2005.  Didn't even take four years to complete...pretty fast build (for me).  

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You can see the in-progress build at: http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,8242.0.html

[AeroplaneDriver]

Best presentation ever!

Nicely done Sir!

[Ed S]

Brilliant.  Great concept, excellent modeling and the newspaper idea works great. 

Ed

[John Howling Mouse]

Thanks, guys.  The newspaper article was surprisingly hard to produce.  Here is a series of better images, some are the color versions of the b&w pics used in the pseudo "Wall Street Journal."























As the model is too heavy for the landing gear, I will mount it on a short piece of clear acrylic rod, a few scale feet above a blur-painted
runway as though it is just becoming airborne (or just coming in for a landing)



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You can see the in-progress build at: http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,8242.0.html

[John Howling Mouse]

Some more pics:

















I'll be updating the whole build thread to show all the steps leading to final completion.  I had wanted to surprise you guys with
the final product before revealing too much about the basic concept during construction:  "What if the British had invented the A-10
instead of Fairchild in the USA?

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You can see the in-progress build at: http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,8242.0.html

[Cobra]

Super Sweet!!!!!!! looks almost like a German Design i'd seen on Luft46 & "Seek and Destroy"!!!! Nice job on the Newspaper Story

[Tophe]

Very beautiful (despite the weapons, I don't like killing tools, sorry)

[Spey_Phantom]

fantastic model, and wow, what a presentation 
excelent work 

[Radish]

Just.....BRILLIANT!!!!

[Hman]

STUNNING 

[Weaver]

Superb model and the newspaper presentation is excellent - a tour de force on all counts!  

Personally inspiring to me too: I have both Meteor plans (none like this) and newspaper plans (not for the Meteors), so it's good to see inspiring examples of both.  

[lancer]

Oh that is just brilliant!!! In fact it's BAZTASTIC!!!!!

[Orne M]

All-around incredibly neat work.

[Mossie]

Wow!!!  It still kind of looks like a meat box, then, well doesn't!  At first I'd thought you'd used parts almost entirely from the Meteor, but there's one ore two I can't put my finger on, how'd you go about it Baz?

EDIT, I see now, found the in progress thread!

[Scooterman]

Aaaaaaaaaaa..........