The Little World

I kid you not…there really was a Marcel Bloch and he really did design airplanes. And he used his own name, which is pretty damn brave. Around the people I know there would have been an immediate reaction.

This model from Mister Craft is, of course, a rebox or remould of a Heller kit. That is no criticism, as I have built a Heller French bomber through Mister Craft and been very satisfied with the result. However, there was also a Renault Caudron rebox that was woeful, so you peep into your new kit ith a sense of nervousness. Fortunatley, I think this one is from the good part of the Heller factory.

Not many parts – not much detail, but true to plan shapes and a reasonable fit of the parts. It’ll be all down to the colour scheme later. Note that there is some flash and a few ejector pin marks but nothing that you cannot deal with in five minutes.

Glory Be, there is a pilot. He is hunched over in an attitude that suggest he needs more fibre in his diet, and the seat he occupies looks more like a Hollywood prop from a Conan film, but I do not suppose we’ll see much in the cockpit anyway. I shall paint him carefully and call him Marcel.

The instructions are good, but you must never be judgemental if the Mister Craft written bits differ from the actual parts in the kit or the diagram of the assembly. They may not be talking to each other in the Mister Craft office and this is the result. If you find yourself winging it, reflect that it is an airplane kit after all.

Decals look good. I live in hope. In any case, I will be using only a few of them, as I have hatched a scheme that requires very little in the way of marking. Thank goodness for Google and the vast resources of forgotten pictures it presents.