The Little World

Well, that’s what it looked like…

The fit of the Matchbox Stranraer fuselage was exemplary. I needed no filler on the centre seams at all. The dorsal gun area, however, needed some careful fairing in to look realistic. That’s a heavy covering of Mr. Hobby white putty you see in the heading image and it was left for a full day to set hard down in the seams.

I am starting to warm to it as a filler – it is nowhere as easy to squirt in as the Vallejo nor as fluid as the Perfect Plastic Putty, but the former of these dries rubbery and the latter somewhat soft. The Mr. Hobby putty is a perfect plastic surface when you come to sand it and blends better than the other two. The only reservation is the longer setting time it requires.

I do few flying boats, but this one was going so well I am tempted to do more. The display of them is uncharted territory, however, as I have never made a sea base in a diorama. But people do, so it must be possible. So it must be as possible to make an entire seaplane base as it is a land airfield.