The Little World

Never pass by a book on a shelf. This may make you a menace in the public library, but trust me that your modelling will improve. I found a copy of ” Canadian Aircraft Of WW II ” in the now-defunct Hylands bookshop in Melbourne. There were multiple copies of what must have been a slow seller. I sped up the process, I can tell you.

I set out to build as many of the featured aircraft as I could. Imagine my delight his year when I discovered not one, but two of them in Special Hobby kits. I ordered several from Metro Hobbies and set about planning where I could get he appropriate decals.

Foolish me. The kit planes and the decals are exactly the ones in the book. All I need to do is a good job and I’ll have what I want. I even decided to get two variants of the Vickers Delta MkIII for wheels and floats.

The first one is the water-borne version – MX-B.

The decals are a little spotty – there are missing portions – but I have two identical sets and between them I shall get the required markings. The second Delta will need some additional roundels, but these are in the spares box already.

Note that these will be the second and third Delta in the collection – I’ve got one in RAAF markings as well.

The kit is precise and free of most flash. There are no troublesome sinks or ejection posts. The clear canopy is excellent. and you get an entire spare wing plus wheels and landing gear in the kit. I’ll eventually end up with a spare pair of floats on a spare wing as well as the wheeled assembly on a wing. God knows what I can do with them but it’s likely that someone somewhere has a fuselage that can mount on them, and we’ll have a a Frankendelta flying.

The build book is good – the best of the Special Hobby productions yet.