The Little World

Well that was an instructive two weeks. I’ve had as much as I can take and the Avro Tutor has had as much construction as it is going to get.

Purists will cavil at the lack of rigging but I know my limitations. I will eventually try to rig something but it’ll be a better fit than this thing. I noted on the internet that the 1:72 Airfix BE2C is built with the aid of plastic jigs that are on the sprue trees – they are used to erect the inter-plane struts so that they fit both top and bottom. Encouraging.

As it is, the Tutor is not all that bad – there are worse in the collection. It is well-proportioned at any rate. And the decals went on so cleanly that I will not even need to settle them or coat them. I shall pronounce myself grateful and consign it to the British trainer diorama or the back of a hanger at RCAF WET DOG.

And to prove that I am as much a fool today as I was yesterday, I took advantage of a Metro Models sale in Melbourne and ordered another Amodel kit. This one will be a Soviet four-engine bomber. At least it will be a monoplane…