Eduard pre-painted harness
The detail on this set is excellent and far better than you could paint it, so it’s a no-brainer to me. Putting the belts together is straightforward, if fiddly, but they do work well. The hardest bit I find is to arrange the belts at this stage of the build as they are fairly still. Attaching with cyano, I located the harness in position. There is a moulded locating rod on the armour plating behind the pilot’s seat but I removed this and replaced it using brass tube cut from a small length of Albion Alloys tube. When attached the harness looks quite good and overall the cockpit now looks much busier than when we started.
Fuselage – stressed metal panels?
A feature of the Gloster Meteor and many other aircraft is that when you look at the fuselage sides, especially immediately behind the cannon ports and slightly further aft under the cockpit the fuselage panels have clear, albeit subtle, stressed metal panels. This is usually caused by the line of rivets pulling the panel into the ribbing beneath or either side of it.
At the time of writing we are in the process of uploading a set of 4 X HD videos demonstrating how I did this on this kit. You’ll find it in Techniques Bank – Model Construction under ‘Repairing, Reinstating and Creating Surface Detail’. Below is a ‘Zoom-In’ image showing the finished effect – you should be able to just make out the subtle rippled-effect? I hope so!
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