Special Hobby

[rickshaw]

We all do, I suspect, Kit.  I am looking forward to both versions of the Meteor.  Another question which springs to mind.  Is there now any major version of the Meteor which isn't now available as an injection moulded kit, except the PR.19? 

[Thorvic]

If we have the Trent and the prone then surely we should have the Metrovic meteor with the underslung Beryl engines, as that should really open up some interesting options for us lot 

[PR19_Kit]

Another question which springs to mind.  Is there now any major version of the Meteor which isn't now available as an injection moulded kit, except the PR.19? 

Hehe, and at the rate the Czechs are going I'm expecting a request for the PR19 plans from Prague any day. 

[NARSES2]

If we have the Trent and the prone then surely we should have the Metrovic meteor with the underslung Beryl engines, as that should really open up some interesting options for us lot 

Very much so, would be another jet I'd actually build

[PR19_Kit]

The Beryl Meteor didn't have the engines THAT much underslung.

There's a side-on photo of it on page 71 of the new Meteor book by Aeroplane Magazine and the engine centre-line looks about level with the underside of the wing. I'm going to mention the book in the 'My Library just increased' thread but it's REALLY good, apart from not mentioning the PR19 of course. 

[Thorvic]

You sure Kit ?

[PR19_Kit]

Yes I am, the piccie in the book is NOTHING like that one. It's Mk IV for a start, so it looks like they built two of them.





Scource is the book I mentioned above of course.

[NARSES2]

Now that's interesting. I've not heard of the latter version. Just read up on it in my Putnam's, although there's not much on it.

[Knightflyer]

I must I wasn't aware of the second 'long nacelles' version. I was aware of the 'low slung' one which had me wondering following Kit's comments if I'd remembered it really badly! I presume the Mk.4 Beryl-Meteor was as the standard Mk.4 except for the forward nacelle engine extensions (can't see the rear properly, are they standard length?) Is it the 'same' Beryl engine in both versions ? Just had a thought of a whiffed Meteor with the 'wrong' sort of Trent engines! 

[jcf]

The F.9/40M DG204/G didn't have F.2/4 Beryl engines, it had the earlier, and different, Metrovick F.2/1.
In a nutshell: all Beryls are F.2s but not all F.2s are Beryls. 

The Beryl powered Meteor was the F.4 RA490, which later in life was equipped with jet deflector Nenes.
Shacklady's The Gloster Meteor has a nice profile photo of RA490 when equipped with Beryls.

BTW Shacklady's 'old' book, Macdonald 1962, is an excellent reference on the Meatbox and is readily available
very inexpensively. used.addall.com shows copies of the 1963 US Doubleday edition starting at $6.00 US.

[PR19_Kit]

There's another piccie of RA490 on the same page of the books showing the Nene installation and what HUGE nacelles they are!

The engines are mounted 8 ft forward of the wings (!) so the exhaust could exit on the aircraft's centre line, and there's a scrap view of the exhaust of one engine. Looks just like the back end of an F-35............

It seems the thing could fly at only 75 kts with the deflected thrust, that must have been worth watching!

[kitbasher]

Anyone treated themselves to a Special Hobby Seafire FR.47 yet, and if so, what are they like?  Seen nothing in terms of reviews (or even scuttlebutt) in magazines or on the web.

[The Wooksta!]

Erm, I answered your similar question in the stash thread...

Delivered this week:-

Special Hobby 1/72 Mk47 Seafire

First impressions of the Seafire?  Seen nothing about it on t'interweb other than catalgue listings.

It's much the same kit as the SH Seafire 46, just with the addition of the undernose deeper scoop.  Ooodles of spares.

It's nice, although from the few test fits I've done, I'd fit the lower wing to the assembled fuselage before adding the upper wings.  If you assemble the wing first, it doesn't want to fit properly.  The Xtrakit 22 was like that, as well as the much vaunted Hasegawa VII/VIII/IX which some imbeciles think is better than the Airfix IX.  They're wrong.

[kitbasher]

A fair cop, Lee.  Forgotten all about that.  Too much going on at work and home and precious little brain space left to retain that info!

[Weaver]

Another obscure one with serious whiff potential: the Vought V-156 Chesapeake Mk.1:

http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/SH72268




Junkers W-34 "captured hack":

http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/SH72271