The Little World

The Miles Magister will join my club of planes that look like they can fly right – sweet, sleek craft that give confidence in their aerodynamics and do not depend upon brute force to heave themselves off the ground. Aircraft that swoop, not lurch. I do like some of the cruder planes as well, but on a different level.

The plane has a fortunate combination of decals and colour scheme that straddles the modern re-furbished museum scene and the older service planes. This same scheme flies with slightly different numbers from the Cosford collection. I have added the service buzz numbers to break up the underside. But the rest is taken from the net.

Now I do love Trainer Yellow for aircraft, and sometimes have thrown myself into fits to get subtle shades. I think this prissiness will be a thing of the past as I have found the Mr. Color 329 – which touts itself as an FS13538 – to be all I need for Commonwealth aircraft.  It is not a colour that will succeed with one coat – you need at least two over a white undercoat to get a good clean result. It flats or semi-flats well with nearly anything.

The RS decals are good – no translucency under the white of the roundels – and they stick well. But they are surprisingly slow to release for Czech printing. Fortunately these days patience is everything so I just waited them out.

Would I build more RS kits? Unhesitatingly – and I hope to discover subjects in their current catalogue that will look good in my air museum.