The Little World

If you wanted to know what the box art for this 1987 Airfix Roland C II looked like, see the heading image. It was one of the sad rejects in the club junk bin. Box long gone and no future for it.

These were the Humbrol years for Airfix – spiralling down into a mess of repeats from the earlier decades – with diminishing interest from both young modellers and the management of the company. There were boxes – see Scalemates – but by the time this hit the discards, I was lucky to get a decal sheet and an instruction sheet. Unloved…but not un-buildable.

I paid my nominal fee to the club coffers and headed for the Internet to see what it once was. The results were encouraging – this was a model that bore a one-tone colour scheme in a shade of blue that did not appear elsewhere in my WW1 gallery. And it was a shade that Mr. Color specifically catered for.

Few injector pin marks but 5 or 6 sink holes in the fuselage. a reasonable pattern on the wings and superb little pilot and gunner.

A long time building? Done in the week with three other projects boiling on the stove at the same time. There’s the only sub-assembly shots I had time to take. If this seems a casual attitude, I assure you it was not – this little kit fit and did not skate over my soul doing it.