Gloster Meteorite Ground Attack Fighter - finished pics page 7

[zenrat]

Gloster 01 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

Rolls Royce Derwent Mk.V powered strike aircraft brought out of retirement in a panic and thrown into action during the Suez War.

It'll get longer wings, RAF desert camo, Musketeer stripes, 60lb rockets, napalm tanks...

It's the Frog mould, repopped by Zvezda for MMD.

[PR19_Kit]

It'll get longer wings,

[Snowtrooper]

Since Gloster moved away from birds with the Gauntlet, Gladiator, and later the Javelin (let's assume "Meteor" was an anomaly), here's some potential names that have the "old arms and armour" theme but still keep the trademark alliteration (and many of them being just as obscure):
Gloster Gousset
Gloster Gambeson
Gloster Greaves
Gloster Gorget
Gloster Gardbrace
Gloster Guige
Gloster Greatsword
Gloster Guisarme
Gloster Glaive
or for a bit of Colonial style flavour:
Gloster Guangdao
Gloster Gada

[zenrat]

Thanks for the suggestions Snowy but Mossie provided the answer in a link in another thread.


Gloster Gnome.  It's small, funny looking and spent a lot of time in a cave...


<edit>  Due to much dog related thread derailment this aircraft has been renamed the Gloster Griffon.

[Devilfish]

(let's assume "Meteor" was an anomaly),

The original name for the Meteor was to have been Thunderbolt

[Rheged]

I think one of the original test pilots referred to it as the Gloster Gormless.

[PR19_Kit]

I think one of the original test pilots referred to it as the Gloster Gormless.

I think that was the E1/44 that Bill Waterton was describing. I read about it in his book 'The quick and the dead' only the other day.

[Rheged]

I think one of the original test pilots referred to it as the Gloster Gormless.

I think that was the E1/44 that Bill Waterton was describing. I read about it in his book 'The quick and the dead' only the other day.

You are right, of course.  I'm in Carlisle, away from all sources of reference and relying on memory.

[CammNut]

Carlisle does that to you

[jcf]

Gloster 01 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

Rolls Royce Derwent Mk.V powered strike aircraft brought out of retirement in a panic and thrown into action during the Suez War.

It'll get longer wings, RAF desert camo, Musketeer stripes, 60lb rockets, napalm tanks...

It's the Frog mould, repopped by ZvezdA FOR MMD.

Steal E.1/44 TX148's cruciform tail off of a Meteor F.8?

[zenrat]

Now that's an idea.  Maybe also a teardrop canopy.  Don't want to make it look too different though.

I love the packaging.  The box folds up from a single piece of card and the picture is a very simple but striking image.  It was the main reason I bought it.

[zenrat]

Started.
The major change to this is going to be the longer wings so I thought i'd start there.

I glued the kit wings together (wow, they are so short) and also the donor wings.

[PR19_Kit]

The major change to this is going to be the longer wings so I thought i'd start there.

Always a good starting point. 

I glued the kit wings together (wow, they are so short) and also the donor wings.

From a U-2 maybe? 

[The Rat]

Steal E.1/44 TX148's cruciform tail off of a Meteor F.8?

Always loved the look of the Gloster Ace, in either tail configuration. If there were an easily available model of it the whiffing potential would be great. Project-X did one, but it's not easy to find.

[zenrat]

The major change to this is going to be the longer wings so I thought i'd start there.

Always a good starting point. 

I glued the kit wings together (wow, they are so short) and also the donor wings.

From a U-2 maybe? 

Me 109 actually.  Not very long in the grand scheme of things but enough to extend the span out to a decent length and give room underneath for some stores.  Plus they are the same shape as the Gloster originals.