Gloster Meteorite Ground Attack Fighter - finished pics page 7

[Captain Canada]

Oh yeah ! Works for me ! I was hoping that they had got into the action, and proved how effective they were. Also sorry to hear about one getting shot down by friendly fire 

Love the look of this one. That rear 3/4 shot really does it for me. I'm saving this idea.

Cheers !

[TheChronicOne]

FLF, i totally dig it!!  Most excellent.... 

[Weaver]

That looks great! 

Surprised they didn't name them the Gloster Wizard at some point since they'd been under Alderley Edge. Along the same lines as 'Gnome', 'Svart' would have been appropriate for a dweller under Alderley Edge, however I fear it would have been vetoed too on the grounds that service humour would not treat it kindly...

Plane trees have actually been the inspiration for cammo uniforms: the guy who designed the earliest Waffen SS schemes took inspiration from them.

[zenrat]

Thanks folks.

Love it, a veritable tour de force.   

But I'm thinking that RR may have objected to the final name as well, as they called their land based Merlin used in tanks and hefty trucks by the name Meteorite too....... 

Ummmmmmm, Rolls Royce didn't object for the same reason they didn't object over the use of Meteor - bothe the Meteor and Meteorite were not aircraft engines,

[zenrat]

That looks great! 

Surprised they didn't name them the Gloster Wizard at some point since they'd been under Alderley Edge. Along the same lines as 'Gnome', 'Svart' would have been appropriate for a dweller under Alderley Edge, however I fear it would have been vetoed too on the grounds that service humour would not treat it kindly...

Plane trees have actually been the inspiration for cammo uniforms: the guy who designed the earliest Waffen SS schemes took inspiration from them.

We were read the Wierdstone of Brisingamen at junior school by the class teacher.  Some of it stuck with me but not all.  I should read it again.
My sister doesn't live too far from The Edge.

[Weaver]

That looks great! 

Surprised they didn't name them the Gloster Wizard at some point since they'd been under Alderley Edge. Along the same lines as 'Gnome', 'Svart' would have been appropriate for a dweller under Alderley Edge, however I fear it would have been vetoed too on the grounds that service humour would not treat it kindly...

Plane trees have actually been the inspiration for cammo uniforms: the guy who designed the earliest Waffen SS schemes took inspiration from them.

We were read the Wierdstone of Brisingamen at junior school by the class teacher.  Some of it stuck with me but not all.  I should read it again.
My sister doesn't live too far from The Edge.

The bit that stuck with me was where they're escaping from the svarts by going down a narrow tunnel, driven through solid rock, miles underground. The tunnel is just big enough for the human kids and the dwaves, but they can only proceed by pulling themselves with their fingers and pushing with their toes, so progress is slow. The backs of their heads and their noses touch the ceiling and floor simultaneously: if they were to bend their arms under their bodies, they'd get trapped and not only would the trapped one die, but everybody gehind them too. One of the kids is pushing a four-foot long sword ahead of him. Half way into their journey, the tunnel does a 180 degree bend downwards, and the sword gets stuck. The kids pushing it has to wriggle and maneuver it with his heart in his mouth for ages to get it round the bend and in the process, he turns himslef upside-down. This turns out to be an advantage however, since after the bend, he's the only one face-down: everybody else is on their backs, with the dust from the ceiling falling into their mouths and eyes...

As a borderline claustrophobe, I read that with more sense of horror than just about anything else I've ever read, and I still consider it the prime example of how to induce horror without monsters, supernatural factors or jump-scares.

[Rheged]

That looks great! 

Surprised they didn't name them the Gloster Wizard at some point since they'd been under Alderley Edge. Along the same lines as 'Gnome', 'Svart' would have been appropriate for a dweller under Alderley Edge, however I fear it would have been vetoed too on the grounds that service humour would not treat it kindly...

Plane trees have actually been the inspiration for cammo uniforms: the guy who designed the earliest Waffen SS schemes took inspiration from them.

We were read the Wierdstone of Brisingamen at junior school by the class teacher.  Some of it stuck with me but not all.  I should read it again.
My sister doesn't live too far from The Edge.

I've read it to several junior school classes, and without exception they have appreciated the story!

[loupgarou]

The bit that stuck with me was where they're escaping from the svarts by going down a narrow tunnel, driven through solid rock, miles underground. The tunnel is just big enough for the human kids and the dwaves, but they can only proceed by pulling themselves with their fingers and pushing with their toes, so progress is slow. The backs of their heads and their noses touch the ceiling and floor simultaneously: if they were to bend their arms under their bodies, they'd get trapped and not only would the trapped one die, but everybody gehind them too. One of the kids is pushing a four-foot long sword ahead of him. Half way into their journey, the tunnel does a 180 degree bend downwards, and the sword gets stuck. The kids pushing it has to wriggle and maneuver it with his heart in his mouth for ages to get it round the bend and in the process, he turns himslef upside-down. This turns out to be an advantage however, since after the bend, he's the only one face-down: everybody else is on their backs, with the dust from the ceiling falling into their mouths and eyes...

As a borderline claustrophobe, I read that with more sense of horror than just about anything else I've ever read, and I still consider it the prime example of how to induce horror without monsters, supernatural factors or jump-scares.

Mygoah, what dreadful stories to read to young kids.  It makes me even more glad I wasn't born in your islands.

[NARSES2]

The bit that stuck with me was where they're escaping from the svarts by going down a narrow tunnel, driven through solid rock, miles underground. The tunnel is just big enough for the human kids and the dwaves, but they can only proceed by pulling themselves with their fingers and pushing with their toes, so progress is slow. The backs of their heads and their noses touch the ceiling and floor simultaneously: if they were to bend their arms under their bodies, they'd get trapped and not only would the trapped one die, but everybody gehind them too. One of the kids is pushing a four-foot long sword ahead of him. Half way into their journey, the tunnel does a 180 degree bend downwards, and the sword gets stuck. The kids pushing it has to wriggle and maneuver it with his heart in his mouth for ages to get it round the bend and in the process, he turns himslef upside-down. This turns out to be an advantage however, since after the bend, he's the only one face-down: everybody else is on their backs, with the dust from the ceiling falling into their mouths and eyes...

As a borderline claustrophobe, I read that with more sense of horror than just about anything else I've ever read, and I still consider it the prime example of how to induce horror without monsters, supernatural factors or jump-scares.

Mygoah, what dreadful stories to read to young kids.  It makes me even more glad I wasn't born in your islands.

If I'm honest I've never heard of it. When I was at infants school the teacher read Beatrix Potter to us and at primary we would have read Enid Blyton 

[Dizzyfugu]

Very nice! 

[Old Wombat]

I remember "The Weirdstone of Brisingamen" as something I've read, many, many, many years ago but in school we also got "Snugglepot & Cuddlepie" & "The Magic Pudding".

[zenrat]

Thanks Dizz.

[Weaver]

The bit that stuck with me was where they're escaping from the svarts by going down a narrow tunnel, driven through solid rock, miles underground. The tunnel is just big enough for the human kids and the dwaves, but they can only proceed by pulling themselves with their fingers and pushing with their toes, so progress is slow. The backs of their heads and their noses touch the ceiling and floor simultaneously: if they were to bend their arms under their bodies, they'd get trapped and not only would the trapped one die, but everybody gehind them too. One of the kids is pushing a four-foot long sword ahead of him. Half way into their journey, the tunnel does a 180 degree bend downwards, and the sword gets stuck. The kids pushing it has to wriggle and maneuver it with his heart in his mouth for ages to get it round the bend and in the process, he turns himslef upside-down. This turns out to be an advantage however, since after the bend, he's the only one face-down: everybody else is on their backs, with the dust from the ceiling falling into their mouths and eyes...

As a borderline claustrophobe, I read that with more sense of horror than just about anything else I've ever read, and I still consider it the prime example of how to induce horror without monsters, supernatural factors or jump-scares.

Mygoah, what dreadful stories to read to young kids.  It makes me even more glad I wasn't born in your islands.

Kids LOVE being scared.
Kids LOVE dreadful stories.
Kids are NOT innocent little angels.

Kids need scarcy, dreadful stories to start acclimatising them to the realities of the world, if hitting adulthood isn't going to be a traumatic shock to them. We're seeing the consequences nowadays of kids being wrapped in too much cotton wool for too long...

[TheChronicOne]

Damn this little bird is cool. I came back around for another look.

[AndrewF]

Very good! And the name changing story is an accurate rendition of how these things work in business/law.