The Little World

Not Texas.

Deep in the heart of Northern Italy. At the Savoia Marchetti factory cementing together the S.79 bomber and being alternately impressed and horrified at the way it is going.

Impressed? Look at the detail of the shock absorber on the tail wheel. Not really terribly visible from the outside, but sturdy enough to reassure me that the back of the model will not collapse on the shelf.

The tail surfaces have ended up as nicely as I predicted, with the fabric detail clearly visible.

Horrified? The wing root gap looked to be accurate but proved to not be so. There is a step there that’ll need disguising. If I ever build another S.79 or a larger S-M aircraft I will check the fuselage to wing mating well before cementation. I will also consider never mating a lower wing to a fuselage and then expecting the upper surface to be correct. Wings together and then we fight it out.

But I protest too much. The lower fuselage and wing assembly needed very little putty to close up perfectly.