The Little World

Or fighting with a cage, if you prefer. The business of welding together a plastic cockpit frame inside a plastic fuselage. Faint hearts need not apply.

I have served my cage apprenticeship on a Special Hobby Avro Anson with a resin tubing structure and as a result I have been excused several centuries of Purgatory. I’m still leery of the business but the use of injected framework that yields to standard cements is the key to success. You can prop together two components and touch the junction with a fast liquid cement more successfully than you can using cyanoacrylates.

The cage fit first time, and has dropped into the fuselage equally as easily. I chose baby poo green as the most likely choice for a CCF-produced plane. Still using an FS paint. I don’t really suppose it matters all that much and I do want the tubing to be seen through the closed canopy.

Oddly enough, the instructor’s seat will be easier to insert after the plane is complete – it slides in on a pair of tubes