The Little World

Settle down class. Stop giggling. You in the back, too.

The cockpit on the BT 1 had every chance of being awkward – PE rudder pedals and control knobs and such Czecherie – but I refused to let it daunt me. I have already made a Douglas SBD-4 and I am dauntless…

The green colour doesn’t exist on the IPMS and Britmodeller charts. It would lead to fistfights at Telford or Sandown Park and I am going to be careful how I exhibit it at WASMex in the future. The reason it is this shade of green is because I remember the colour photography of NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC taken aboard US carriers in WW2, and I have chosen to use this as a reference. I know how wrong it is likely to be as I have experience of a whole family of Kodakchrome colour films – A, II, and II+ but quite frankly I fancy it. Complainants may submit their scorn on the form attached. Make sure it is accompanied by a fresh $ 10 bill.

There is still a machine gun in a mount ring to come – a PE horror that needs bending in three planes and a smooth curve to function, but I have seen Ian in action and feel honour bound to at least try it.

The good news finished, the bad news is next. There are fit issues with the basic wing panel. Not on top, but at the aft wing fairing. The mismatch I assure you is not me, but I’ll deal with it by progressively filling and smoothing. To be fair to Prague, these disparities are reasonably rare.