The Little World

Drifting past the club work table one day I was delighted when a club mate handed me a small kit box and asked whether I’d like it for free.

It was not the scale or sort of item he makes, so It was going spare. I think it originally came from a third member, being passed from hand to hand like a comic parcel. Never mind – to paraphrase Harry Truman…” The Box Stops Here “. I’ll build anything in 1:72.

The kit is made by PST, another small Russian factory. They seem to specialise in vehicles, old and new. There are a number of kits of support vehicles from the Soviet era in their catalogue, though whether they’ll get out of eastern Europe all that often is debatable. However, this one was here, now, and nearly complete. The only missing part seems to have been the tiny decal sheet.

Sprue trees were in two colours and delightfully free of flash or burring. There was a crispness about the tyres that was refreshing. No clear styrene parts, as this design had a folding blast shield in front of any windscreen.

And a refreshingly accurate instruction sheet. Colour call-outs in Cyrillic but you can pretty well guess that a green Russian truck is going to be painted in Russian Green…

Note the amount of detail. Buyers of this kit got value for their Ruble. That may change…