The Little World

After building a number of Airfix and Italeri 1:72 models with rather comprehensive interiors, I am not sure I’m pleased with the approach Revell have taken with the Twin Otter. The cockpit is fine; seats, control columns, and instruments in a closed space. Painted light grey/dark grey and with the added fillip of seatbelt decals and a very good dash decal, It is all that one might want in 1:72.

But aft of the cockpit it is all bare until you ht the rear bulhead – bare but illuminated by 15 clear windows. I would have welcomed a floor pan and some seats. However, I am pleased that the windows were such a good fit back there and that they could be secured with regular cement and then Micro Kristal Klear. I trust they will not pop in.

The cockpit side windows are not a good fit, however. They are loose in the rim. I adopted the dodge of taping them on from the outside and then filling their edge with Micro Kristal Klear to weld them onto the fuselage. Fortunately it worked. The windscreen is also a difficult thing to fit but I checked that it could be secured in after the fuselage was closed.