This is the all resin PJ Productions kit of the Meteor F Mk 8, finished in 54 Squadron markings form Xtradecal.

Being an all resin kit it is quite heavy especially as everything in front of the c of g is solid resin to avoid a tail sitter (it still needed some additional lead packed in as well).  In order to avoid strain on the resin u/c this was modified so that it is built around a length of brass rod that starts in the wing and goes right into the middle of the wheel.

Quality of the resin casting was excellent with only a few air bubbles needing to be filled. Fit was also very good.  The two main problems associated with the kit are the shape of the wing tips which were not square enough and had to be replaced with plastic strip and sanded to shape. Also maybe because of shrinkage the kit scales out smaller than 1/72nd scale, not much can be done about this but since it is too small in all dimensions it still looks like a Meteor.  RAF roundels were from the kit and went on fine and the squadron markings from Xtradecal were excellent.

I thoroughly enjoyed making this kit and maybe I will buy an MPM/Hannants injection moulded T7 for comparison sometime.

Andrew

Click on images below to see larger images