The Little World

How many times have you dismissed something as too minor to much concern yourself with?

And how many times have you been proved wrong? The casual builder of this little Academy kit may well miss some of the joys of the universe if they take a flippant attitude.

Admittedly, the cockpit is nothing at all. It is a sealed cavity that suggests a seat. It can be represented with a lick of brown paint.

The engine is basic – but so little of it is seen in the big cowling that it need not bear push rods or wiring. I’m sure someone out there with nothing to do and great deal of time to do it in will cut out the engine and fit a resin copy, but then people play competitive Solitaire as well…

The wing flaws yielded to perfect Plastic Putty and some cotton swabs.

The struts are rather chunky, so they may get a scraping before being fitted.

And the fuselage closed well once the non-helpful registration pins were removed. I would once have regarded these pins as sacred, but I’ve seen how they can skew a fuselage and cause endless scrape and fill work later. Far better to remove them, flatten the centre seam on a true sandpaper surface, and marry the two halves that way. And keep any moulding errors for the underside.