The Little World

If you look very carefully at the image of the Stranraer with the lower wings in place you’ll see two things:

a. The fit of the wings and tailplanes was darn near perfect. No putty needed and only the merest whisper of cyanoacrylate to seal the top of the wing.

b. There were tiny little holes near the attachment points in the wing where the interplane struts hit the top of the wings. These took a half-hour to drill one afternoon. I decided to follow the lead of other builders and rig the Stranraer once it was assembled and painted.

No idea whether it would be best to use EZ Line for this or a monofilament fishing line. The former has that delightful elasticity that can be worked into taught rigging. The latter can be more to scale, though it requires weights during rigging to get tension on the wires.

Thanks to the MAP plans service for having a 1:72 plan for this aircraft and to a member of Britmodeller who released it to the internet. It enabled me to find the true position of the wires and to check the dihedral against a 1:1 diagram.

My compliments as well to Matchbox. This build was every bit as good as the Privateer they released years ago. Admittedly I saw that in the Revell re-release but I loved building it and this one was shaping up to be just as sweet. Matchbox March may be memorable every year.