The Little World

The last posting about the Bucc was a little discouraging – you saw the massive seams and holes in the thing for what they were. Like seeing an old actress without her makeup on.

Well this time you get the effect of art and science. The holes have been filled and the layers of lacquer applied. The new vertical painting stand has proved invaluable and is very much steadier than anything that has gone before. I can’t think why I did not make one sooner.

As this model is made to represent a museum relic from the cold war era it doesn’t have engines – the museum will plug up the intake and exhaust tubes with flat covers. The finish is unreasonably shiny – courtesy the zeal of the paint shop and spare cans of grey – and all the external hatches are sealed against the incursion of weather or tourists. The wings are locked in the down position…mainly because they don’t trust the folding mechanism after all these years.

Let’s hope the decals have some degree of life in them…