The Little World

Well, the Peggy is closed up and winged. Airframe day passed successfully.

I do not decry the Czech makers of short-run kits for their economies of production – at least I do not condemn them too much. I appreciate the fact that they bring me things I could otherwise never have. But I do miss the locating pins and tabs that are incorporated on more mainstream injection moulds. They make the business of closing a fuselage or attaching a flying surface so much better.

Being a Hasegawa kit, the Peggy’s fuselage slipped together with no stress on the seams – thus they could be done with Tamiya Extra Thin and become quite invisible. The scrape line around the centre is extremely small.

The wings are attached with marvellous steps between the fuse and wing – the wing sits within a recess and the cement joint is largely invisible. It will mean no filler in these seams at all.

Likewise, the tail surfaces are attached with tight injected pins and do not present any problem as far as alignment – it was done without any jigging whatsoever.

In the case of the flying surfaces a medium viscosity cement was used for ultimate strength.

And finally, there will be enough of the cockpit seen that I wish I had crew for it. There are still several weeks before it is closed here so I have time to scour other kits or people’s scrap boxes.