The Little World

For 5 bucks a throw. That was the price of a joy ride on the City Of Prince George – the Junkers float plane that was anchored near that town in the 30’s. Takla Landing, I believe. it had a civic christening and everything as they probably hoped to make a regular passenger service with it. Not a good time to try that venture…

Well the modelnfuselage went together very well but I made a couple of false starts with the position of the bulkheads and had to prise it apart and start again. I did a little bit of sawing and cutting as well, but in the end it all fitted and looked good. There are leather seats and curtains in the passenger compartment and a lot of cold air and noise in the crew buckets up front.

Thank goodness for MicroScale Micro Clear and thin cement. I use both on windows these days and so far none have fallen into sealed fuselages. They combo is tough enough to take vigorous rubbing when I mask windows, too. I’ve given up trusting liquid masks for a lot of civil planes.

The floats are complex- no doubt about that. Revell have done their best with e struts but you are still setting 6 frames in place between two floats and the wing. I elected to assemble them in a jig separate from the wing and then let the soft cement set while the struts rested in their sockets. It was not perfect, but as close as dammit anyway.

The wing is magnificent.