The Little World

When my mother was expecting me, an angel appeared and offered to make me either smart or good looking – her choice. I now begin to suspect which idea appealed to her. The reason I’ve come to this conclusion is I have purchased another Mister Craft kit from Poland.

You’ll remember my experiences with other MC products; a good Fairey Fulmar, a bad Renault Caudron, and a dreadful Republic Thunderjet. And my determination to pass these things by on the shelves…

Add to this the suspicion that this bomber kit’s moulds started life as a Heller product…and you can see my hesitation. Yet, it was quite inexpensive and it looked horrible and French and everything. I’d had a good week and decided that I might as well buy it and get my disappointment and unhappiness out of the way  before the weekend.

Well, I seem to have been disappointed in trying to be disappointed. I’m feeling chagrined in that I may actually have purchased a good kit…

Why people buy kits of inter-war French aircraft is as yet unanswered – but it may be akin to why some people keep stonefish as pets or vote for Trudeaus. There is a guilty pleasure about embracing the worst decisions.

Will I come a cropper in this? Well, Scalemates makes no judgement and Britmodeller and IPMS are condemnatory about everything, so the reality may be somewhere in between. The design of the thing is hideous, the rational behind its conception is flawed, and the operational history is woeful. If it was named Pierre or Justin I could understand this, but as it is I am just going to have to take my courage in my hands, knife open the adhesive tape seal, and prepare to look down the hatch of hell.