The Little World

I am always eager to get a plane on its feet. And then I’m not, when I look and see what the manufacturers have moulded. So many of them make a set of landing gear that can never support the plane and is miserable to install. It is one of the stations on the model-building railway where cursing is permitted.

Not Airfix  – modern Airfix – and certainly not on this fine Heinkel. The legs and struts are very well keyed into their appropriate spots and are indeed locked into the correct handed positions by moulded pegs. Only one way is right or possible. Once they are all in they brace each other and you can get away with the very tiniest drops of PVA as re-enforcement.

Note that the tail wheel door was taken off the plane at the time that the RAF spray crew got to it with the yellow paint and still retains the RLM colour.