Airfix Gloster Meteor F8 1/48 scale Korea review and build - HD 1080p 

The natural metal finish (NMF) is great. Wonderful build 😃

Just popped up on my feed, Gary. Very nice result! A beautiful aircraft!

Great Meteor! ...I love the 1/48 scale kits!

love your videos, very laid back making models a pleasure

Fantastic build! Keep'm coming Gary.

Thanks for this video mate! You have given me some inspiration to start my kit now!

Very cool build Garry! Thanks for sharing, learned a lot. Happy days and model on! 😎

Very nice build!

Awrsome build there, well done. I have built MPM's 1/72 offering and enjoyed it but boy this 1/48 has a different league of detail! I found a grey wash on the main external panel lines really made it come alive 👍

You've tempted me. Nice job bringing out all that detail.

superb presentation, superb build.....................

Top notch modelling as always!👌🙂

A great build, this is a kit I've had my eye on.

Great work, I hope the upcoming 1/72 version will be just as good from Airfix.

Awesome, this kit is si great and your built it si nicely ...😍🤩👏

Nice job!

Just found your channel and subscribed. I like what I see so far and will be checking out more!!

I am just finishing mine. The nose took a bit of fiddling to get a decent joint. I did wonder about the rocket colours, as metal didn't seem right. I will do what you did. Your builds are first class.

Hi Garry, that was a excellent build, lt came out perfectly, I rather like a lot of the 'post' war jets, thanks for sharing your work, best regards from a Kiwi living in Australia.

Bloomin good camera 👌 nice job 👍

Enjoyed, subscribed.

Great video Gary. And a great one to discover your channel on. Instant subscribe. Okay - trivia dump: BTW it's pronounced "GEE-long" Flyer - the first syllable is pronounced as a "G" like "Gee-Whizz". Geelong is a satelite city of Melbourne. A77-854, the second scheme in the kit's first pilot was Sqn Leader Don Hillier of Adelaide over Jan-Mar (who was lost on ops flying A77-343 on 8 Mar 53). The aircraft was renamed by pilot Sgt J McCarthy (presumably from Geelong) for the final three months of combat missions until the end of Jul 1953 as “The GEELONG FLYER”. The Geelong Flyer was the first officially named train operated by Victorian Railways from 1926, providing a high-speed one-hour service between Melbourne and Geelong, at 115km/hr. This provided some good nose art. A77-854 returned to Australia aboard HMAS Vengeance in Nov 1954. Back in Australia in 1954, A77-854 was inducted by 2AD and re-issued to 77 Sqn and named “Hot to Trot” for the “Operation Welcome Home” formations over capital cities in Jan-Feb 1955. The airframe was sold to RH Grant Trading Co 19/05/58 and scrapped. Luckier than some of it's squadron stablemates that wound-up rotting in the desert outside Maralinga South Australia as static aircraft test beds for British Govt nuclear tests in the 1950's.

Geelong is pronounced "je-long", its a major regional city about an hour south west of Melbourne. The F8 meteor flown Halestorms scheme is at the Temora Aviation museum, i believe the forward fuselage of the actual jet George Hale shot the Mig down in exists in a museum in South Australia as well. Temora also have a CAC27 Sabre in flying condition. Quite a sight when they are together.

More 1/48 videos very entertaining

That prone position meteor is actually on display at RAF Cosford, for anyone who wasn't aware

Excellent! Do the sea fury next please.

Interestingly the May 1941 flight was the official test flight. The aircraft had flown the previous month as part of the preliminary test flights to establish takeoff speed and airborne stability.

I just ordered on them new HK models Metor in 1.32 wonder what this things going to be like now! It Was only £77 from a model shop down England don't know if there new or old kit's I've never seen one personally but liked your build alot so seen that and thought why not!

Scheme 2: Gee-long. As in gee-wiz. But us Aussie’s pronounce it more like jalong. It’s 80km SW of Melbourne Victoria. The Geelong Flyer is the train between the two. Nice build…It just happens to be my last one, too.

Those pipes at the front of the undercarriage bay look to be lagged hot air pipes from the engines; either for cabin conditioning air or heater air for the guns.

Nice build, enjoyed the video, but do you have any reference for those blue ejection seat packs and head rest? Never seen any seats like that and it looks a bit odd...

I took a sunset photo of Hale storm, when I was at War Birds Downunder in Temora! If you are interested, I can send you a copy.

Lovely natural metal finish. Did you thin the Vallejo metal colour at all? I was struggling recently to get it down smoothly - perhaps my needle & nozzle were too fine. Nice trick with the interior wear effects too - much easier than messing around with hairspray chipping!

Hi mate! Just wondering what sort of primer you use? I've got a Vallejo Mecha airbrush primer I bought but haven't used. I'm going to start a 1/32 Bf109 soon and just wanna make sure everything is okay... Nevertheless a good finish! I've got to start using that layer of metal before as well! I've learnt a lot from your videos, I really appreciate it! Cheers!

Very impressive! Size matters 😀. What were the bicycle weights for? What would happen without them?

Just curious but wasn't the Brit habit to paint these postwar jets in high-speed silver, and not bare metal, genuine question coz I was about to launch into exactly the aircraft shown, I hope to get at least almost as good a build as you have achieved. Top little program you have, thank you 😃👍🏴‍☠️

Geelong flyer. 🤣🤣🤣 the Gee is pronounced as Jee as in Jeep. It’s a city South of Melbourne.

Gee... long second largest City in Victoria Australia Jee long

The 'Gee' in Geelong is pronounced the same as in 'Gee - Up Horse' or 'Gee - Whizz.. Not like Ghee, clarified butter.