The Little World

Well, I learned my lesson early. I built an Airfix model of a Vickers Wellington back in the 1960’s and no-one told me about nose weights. The plane turned out to be a tail-sitter…

I was cautious with the new Airfix Liberator I am building in case the plastic model company was going to fool me again. I taped the fuselage halves together, taped the wing and tail on, and set it on a flat surface. Of course the weight of the thing pulled it down at the back.

So I got one of the old Brown Bess musket balls – an ounce of lead – and tried it – the plane popped down on the front wheel. Then I simply flattened the sphere on an anvil with a couple of blows from a hammer and glued it into the space between the cockpit and the revolving turret. A coat of green paint hides it enough for my purposes.