The packaging of the Airfix Storch is new to me – I’ve had baggies and boxes, but this is the first plasti-pack. I am surprised that the sprue trees survived the years. 1973 is the year it was repackaged like this – and it’s one of the Paul Planes that spent years in a hot closet.
It will be a storch to start with, but become a criquet in the process of the build. The type was taken over by the French after the war – in some cases directly with Luftwaffe markings – and re-produced by Morane-Saulnier as the MS 500. Numbers of them were used by the French in the 1950’s in Indo-China. I shall review my French decals and see which set comes closest.
The sprue trees are of the period – flash and distortion is evident. But the basic fuselage halves and wings look quite straight. A little care should see this built with reasonable precision – at least as much as Airfix could incorporate at the time.
Never look a gift kit in the radiator – some of the least pretentious turn out to be the most satisfying.
The Little World 
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