Well, when Karl uses it to refer to me, it's because, being knackered with Rheumatoid Arthritis these days, and with bent legs, he reckons I walk like Douglas Bader, and his radio call-sign was 'Dogsbody',
The name was 'created' as a p*ss take by W/Cdr Woodall ('Woody'), the Duxford sector controller, based on Bader's initials (DB), which, when he was promoted, replaced the squadron code letters on his aircraft.
Consequently, Karl is 'Red Two', and Gary (Geedee) is 'Red Three'.
We also started a 'Biggles Speak' thing a few years back (hence all the 'Old boy', and such like, now seen here on the forums), and various Biggles characters names were allocated to Karl, myself, Jan and a couple of others who meet up now an d then, but that's another story .......
Back to the Meteor, and I decided to let the 'Milliput' on the fin have some more time to fully set as, being fairly thin, I don't want it to crack when being carved and sanded. Also, as insurance, I had to re-cement the upper fuselage joint, as I dropped the bloody thing after being caught off-guard with the weight in the nose - fortunately, it landed half on carpet, and half on a folded polishing cloth !
So, whilst waiting, the center section mess was cleaned up, and those gaps and poor joints have been filled, using stretched sprue set into the gaps, melted and pressed down, using Tamiya extra thin cement (Textcem), and then sanded flush.
The pics show the stages in the process, and a shot of how the assembly looks so far.
There's still some final sanding and polishing to do, and the very small gaps, 'pinholes', and areas where I enlarged the curved cut-outs in the intake nacelles, have yet to be filled with either 'superglue', or my talc and varnish 'Porridge'.
Those larger gaps at the intake nacelle joints aren't perfect, a there's a slight 'step', but they should pass once painted, as they're on the line of an actual cowling panel joint, and can be detailed as such, and considering the mess the whole thing was in before, I'm fairly pleased with the result so far.
As I've worked almost non-stop since yesterday evening, I'm now going to have a night off, go for a couple of pain-killing pints, then have an early night and sleep for England !
Thanks again for the interest, and I'll be back sometime tomorrow.