The Little World

My success with the diorama shelves for my IKEA bookcases has inspired me to expand my aero museum theme. I have two shelves set out as Schmattarim Museum and am busy finding Israeli and related middle eastern aircraft to fill them. I suspect I’ll be able to add a couple more before the theme is exhausted.

And isn’t it nice – Special Hobby has made some specialist planes and Italeri can supply a number of the more common modern ones – the Kfir C-1 is the first of the modern jets.

Note that I have implicit faith in Italeri – like Airfix, I have never had a bad model from them. Admittedly I am concentrating on their more recent mouldings, but if the results are good, I am not complaining.

Note also the simple sprue trees for this Kfir – no flash, no sink marks, hardly any ejector pins to worry about.

The decal sheet – three versions straight off the sheet and enough stencils to give you decal blindness. And i’m going to have to make sure I get the writing the right way up as it is in Hebrew. At least you won’t be missing which side this one is on with those orange ID triangles.