The Little World

I am nothing if not buoyant when it comes to really bad kits. It is the effect of cheerful optimism and iron-bound stupidity. I welcome a challenge…much as I welcome Redback spiders.

Considered as an artistic thing, the port wing of the Revell Buffalo is rather elegant. It has a french curve to it. I do not think the Brewster company designed it that way, however. The designer is long dead but I do not wish to shift him in his grave – I shall attempt to straighten it.

a. A firm base upon which to press.

b. clamps to apply form pressure.

c. A source of heat – in this case a hot-air hair dryer.

And after a surprisingly long period of time, a reasonable – if not perfect – result.

The top half of the wing was also depressed – though not as much as me when I discovered it. The fix here was two Evergreen plastic beams forced into the structure after being sanded to shape. it’s brute force and ignorance, but it restored some of the airfoil shape.

And that is as much as my luck will stand – I carried on and assembled the fuselage to match this with the knowledge that there was going to be a dark camouflage scheme over it to distract the eye.