The Little World

The day I assemble the fuselage from the flat pack with a little hex wrench.

I almost seemed like that was going to be the case when I first saw the way the aircraft had been sectioned. But Heller was wise – if the Potez was rectangular in cross section there was no point in making it of two halves when four panels could do it. All they had to do was provide adequate location ledges around the edge of everything and some strategic cutouts for the cross-braces.

I did resort to a model-maker’s steel square ruler for the first of the joins – after that everything went on square anyway. There were no major gaps and the fettling was minimal. Even the Mister Craft factory couldn’t stuff it up.

The masking of the windows was also super-easy. They are the width of one of the rolls of masking tape on my dispenser so it was a case of cutting one end square and then laying it down with a cocktail stick. The only complex curves are in the cockpit canopy and they went under Maskol for protection.

Note that the tail plane has very nice bracing that can be attached at this stage of the game. The wing bracing will be another matter. I am practicing juggling eels in preparation for their fitting.