The Little World

I am starting to model in four dimensions. Outside for length, width, and height. Inside for detail.

Of course the general viewers will never know what’s inside, but I will. I will treasure the vision of a jewelled interior telling intriguing stories. And I will have beaten the old Airfix/Revell/Aurora monster of the hollow fuselage.

Make no mistake – they were crude. You were lucky to get a pilot on a peg, luckier to get an unadorned seat, and definitely buying a top shelf bottle when they gave you an instrument panel. Nowadays you get all of the above plus internal cockpit walls -and in the case of this Wellington, MPM give you interior geodesic frames all down the inside of the aircraft.

It could hardly be otherwise as other makers can make then separate parts – see Trumpeter. And since geodesic is Barnes-Wallis and RAF, you cannot fail to appreciate it. But how to make it look real?

Stay tuned.

That’s how much I trust those wheel well tubs to stay cemented. Smothered in PVA. If I could have attached rivets, I would have.