The Little World

Relax. This is Safe For Work.

If they have accepted the fact that you build plastic model kits, the worst is over. You can stop pretending to respectability and go back to looking at Airfix magazine in the toilets.

The perverse hopes we speak of are:

a. The hope that a major manufacturer will mould modern kits of some 1930’s biplane that you covet.

b. They will mould it in the scale you like to build.

c. They will mould it with some form of modern slip-moulding magic that allows both wings and the interplane struts to slide out of the machine on one sprue tree. You clip two feed points and glue the sucker in.

Stop hoping now. If you go on to adding moulded rigging and a sandwich in the pilot’s hand the universe will cause you to fall down a sinkhole.

You may also wish:

a. That you will never again lose a vital part of your kit into the carpet.

b. That when you do, there will be a spare on the sprue tree.

c. Or the maker will mail you a replacement in two days.

d. Or that you’ll find a replacement in the spares box.

e. Or that when you finally exhaust all these possibilities for replacement, and give up and scratch-build the part ( Three days out of your life… ), that you will not discover the thing under a magazine after you have done the second colour coat on the model.

f. And that there will be some helpless creature nearby upon whom you can wreak terrible revenge.