The Little World

Well, I’d watch it if they started broadcasting, and so would you.

But this is not about the television – it’s about the Airfix channel that they put between the fuslage and inner wing panel of the DC3. It is so far the widest gap this side of Darien. Not on both sides of the plane – the heading image is the port side. Starboard has yielded to a cyanoacrylate as a filler and bonder. But port is wide, deep, and disconnected.

That’s where Evergreen plastic strip comes in. I’ve got several bags of it in various thicknesses and the trick is to profile  and then drop it into the trough with slow-setting cement to bond. Eventually you cut it down to the wing profile and clean up the joint.

While I was at it I filled two dainty little dimples in the bum cheeks of the plane caused by shrinkage. There are stress marks elsewhere but they’ll be hidden by the paintwork. It is a kit of its time…and it was not a time of precision.