The Peggy will be a Tuesday Plane – the name I give to models that I dedicate for my scale modelling club outing each week. If I am rigorous in sticking to this schedule it should last quite some time – I do not work on it on other days of the week. Were the club closer to my own suburb, it would become a Tuesday and Thursday plane.
The first assembly is always the cockpit and interior and in this Hasegawa have done a superb fitting job – it tests out perfectly when you sandwich it between the fuselage halves. The recommended colours are quite uniform and somewhat dark, but I plan to post-shade this with some lightening and dry-brushing. It may be that a fair bit of it is visible through the clear perspex so I might as well get it shining in there.
The wings and engine nacelles are perfect fits straight off the sprue trees. I have used the technique of roughly masking around the nacelle interiors with housepainter’s masking tape – I did this as well for each fuselage half – as it prevents most of the over-spray and reduces having to clean it up. The time taken to mask with this is so small that it makes the choice of airbrush over paint brush a no-brainer. And again, if one prepares a number of components for the same colour and brigades up the work, it is all done well before you need it.
Final note: the horizontal stabilisers are one-piece mouldings. I so wish that other makers would do this; gluing two halves together is often just imprecise enough to give you a wonky tail. Plus the two-piece often has a very thick trailing edge. Note the pegs for fitting – they’ll be snug in the fuselage.
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