The Little World

When constructing a kit I have learned to look at the instructions carefully. Then ignore a certain percentage of them – in particular the ones that ask me to glue on small breakable bits early in the piece. If I do so, I condemn myself to great anxiety over them ever after.

There is a great deal of handling at every stage of he game – if you put the antennae and probes and tiny projections on the basic fuselage or wing surfaces they’ll just be cracked off as you mask and paint. But some camouflage schemes or other paint jobs need to include them and you just aren’t going to get the same result gluing them on later. Sooooo…

So I glued on the numerous antennae, grumbling to myself. I also plugged up the window holes with card circles punched out of an Airfix box. It was all going to be pointless if the clear styrene nose piece did not fit, so I glued that on with Micro Klear after masking it. What the hell – in for a penny, in for a pound…

Note that this fuselage has one of the flattest bottoms I have ever seen. But it is covered in cargo hooks, antennae, and whatever. It cannot sit flat without breaking things. It ended up being supported for the rest of the build on two rails made from foamcore.