Anyway, talking of painting, here she is after what work was done on WS838 today.

The underside still needs to be painted on the base of the fuz and under the starboard wing. She looks great 😀 😀

Or better still the manual for a Meteor NF14. It just so happens I have my own one of those too! 😀 😀

😀 Also comes in camoflage 😀

Here we go again!!!!

Sorry, just a bit of teasing towards Rob on my part, he’ll get his own back, one of these days 😮

You wanna be careful Kev, spending all this time on the internet………your missus might ban you altogether :diablo: 😀

It is right what Kev says though about all your comments, it is good to have positive feedback from others, cause it helps incourage us to continue and the more popular we are getting, the more visitors it attracts through the door and for us at MAM, that is the biggest contributing factor in us keeping the museum alive……….if it weren’t for them, we would not be able to do what we do today, so a very big thank you too you all 😀

I know what you was saying about the yellow David and I have to admit, it is a colour scheme that stood out, but we repainted her at least 5 times in our hands in yellow but it would not work. We were informed by the museum that she served with 64 sqn at Duxford when she first came into service and it was agreed that this scheme would be a better option, giving our difficulties maintaining the airframe in yellow, so it was changed.

Maybe one day the option to repaint here yellow will arise, so long as the paint is good enough 😀

Her service at Bedford and Boscombe Down is as interesting if not more so than her career as a night fighter .

Night Fighter……thats the key word here.

This is an NF14 Meteor, a night fighter aircraft. An aircraft brought into service for fighting at night!! As Albert has already informed you, we have a problem maintaining aircraft with an all over yellow colour scheme. As we do not have the resources and facilities to spray our aircraft in proper military aviation paint, we have to make do with an alternative and unfortunatly the alternative is never going to be better so we have to live with it. The elements outside do not help, but we have found our camoflage airframes withstand the elements far better so this is the better option. Our DH Dove we painted in Dunlop markings no more than 18 months ago is already starting to fade in the light and will need attending soon.

At the end of the day, the work we put into our aircraft is 100% and we take pride in it to. A lot of people have commented on how well we preserve our aircraft and that we are a credit to the museum. That is the sort of feedback we like to hear, so your comment on it should be yellow is being ignored for now as regardless of what you say, people like what we’re doing to it and that is how it is going to stay. We’re not going to change the colour back to yellow because one individual thinks we should.

Thankyou!!

Started the repainting process on WS838 today, but the weather closed in rather earlier than expected and forced me to stop, but what I’ve done looks ok! 😉