The Little World

You’ll forgive me for not taking any pictures of the pignose as it was being assembled. Too much was going on in the house at the time.

The build was uneventful – thanks to the precision fit of the components hardly any filler was needed. And the tail sections fitted perfectly with no long packing rods as per the Amodel version. Indeed, the only fettling needed was to ease the slots for the horizontal stabiliser to fit – Special Hobby were a bit zealous with the tab.

The landing gear was also easy, due to a decent post and socket system. The nose weight, however, was just on the edge of enough. Still we are not on our tail, are we?

The natural metal is Mr. Color Super Silver with clear coats of the Mr. Hobby gloss. It seems to take an extra day to completely dry but is a really good gloss to put down. The main overall coats were done with the new Mr Hobby Procom Boy SQ single-action gun and were very easy to apply as long as you dilute well.

The decaling was painless – Special Hobby sheets release quickly and you need to have a landing field of water or Micro-Set for them to go to, but as long as you do your pushing about with a brush, all goes well. I went only so far with the smaller stencilling, but you get a good flavour of the markings with the larger designs.

At least the resin parts – the drop tanks – were large enough to be easily handled.

All in all, a satisfying aircraft model. I still need a Vampire for Schmatterim Air Force Museum, but this will probably be an Airfix two-seater, and they’re in every shop.