The Little World

Well, if you’re gonna be inside for weeks, you might as well do airplane interiors. In the case of some of the short-run Czech kits, just a few hours can seem like weeks.

But sometimes you can be fooled. When I saw this Kingfisher’s insides I could see all the Czech troubles beginning again; no interior ledges, thin attachment points, complex internal parts with small glue spots. Plus vague instructions.

As it worked out, most of these were phantom menaces. There were rudimentary location ledges that proved to be adequate, the thin bits overlapped thicker parts, and the instructions were accurate, if unwritten.

The two fuselage halves went together with no gaps – once a small warp had been sanded out – and the wide-open observer’s post actually strengthened up as more parts were added. The machine gun pintle was wildly oversize, but that was cut down easily. These little observation planes seem to have been pretty well armed as far as rear-firing machine guns. I put on the twins.

Altogether satisfying for Day Two.