The Little World

I know what Forrest Gump felt like sometimes – particularly upon opening a Czech kit.

The box of czecholates that you get can have hard centres, soft centres, or centres with no positioning tabs whatsoever. You will be challenged. In the case of the Twin Mustang the fit of the cockpits was actually reasonable – after a little internal sanding. The fuselage seams approximated each other fairly well.

The wing portions had quite deep wheel wells – but thankfully these were single-piece tubs. Some other kits want you to construct a box of front, back, and side panels in the curved inner surface of the wing and then try to close it. The most daunting of all turned out to be a set of sadists who moulded an entire well with ribs made of resin. I think I lost half my body weight in nervous sweat detaching the parts from their mounting blocks on that particular kit. I never expected the assembly to actually go into registry but it did.

Well, the leading edge here was a little out of register, but I can cope with that. And in fact the business of having no registry pins between fuselage halves is actually becoming a more comfortable thing – I even look at kits where they are included and sometimes trim them off deliberately.

The resin hoses in the cockpit side walls eventually went in the trimming…but I did not worry. Sherry helps with that.

Note the square tyre profile, the fabulous but unused gas tanks, and ” Long Dong “. If I ever get into Korean War building I will seek out another F-82 as a night fighter with the dong.