The Little World

I seem to have hit upon a theme recently – the photo-reconnaissance aircraft as moulded by the Czech firm of Sword Models. An RT-33, a Thunderflash, and now a Grumman Cougar F9F-8P. The RT 33 was diverted to a Canadian hack aircraft, but the two others are up there taking pictures.

The box yielded several good sprue trees with only a little flash. The photo-etch pad supplied cockpit, wheel and wing fence detail. A fancy resin seat. Clear canopy. Good decal sheet. And…The Instructions…

I write it like that for a reason.

This build went on very well through a week or so but there’s little opportunity to show photos of the process – they were deleted by mistake from the memory card as the holiday week went on. You can’t recover lost information cheaply and once the thing is finished there is only an outside to show.

However, read on…