The Little World

I used to think women were unnecessarily fussy about their shoes and clothes – everything had to be wrinkle-free or seamless. Men were not worried about that sort of thing.

Then I took up scale model kit building and realised how much I had been fooling myself. I am hella fussy about the fit of the parts and the resultant seams and gaps. And every YouTube instructor is even worse – there are people polishing their models in between each step of the process to make sure no seams are ever seen.

It is a relief in this sort of strife to come across a maker as good as Tamiya or the new Airfix. I was able to go through an evening of dry-fitting with no more hard work than a few strokes with a sanding stick on all the disparate parts. The seams between wing and fuselage and between tail planes and their slots seem so well-engineered that I can tell no filler will be required. All it’ll need is careful two-part cementation and enough patience to let the weld action fully develop.

Even the fuselage halves will slide together cleanly with no stress – I’ll do them sectionally, though.

As you can tell from the photos, it’ll practically fly dry.