The Little World

And not the sort on an ice floe in sealing season…

The BE2c is a Mens Shed model, which means the build is stretched out over a number of weeks – building interspersed with painting followed by more building. It is not a bad way of enforcing a sense of rhythm and giving adequate time for paint to dry. There is always coffee and conversation to fill the hours.

There are several clever things that can be done in the course of these weeks:

a. Paint things on the sprue trees, as the kit makers advise, and then leave them on the trees until you need to fasten them. It is possible to lose an entire sprue tree, but you have to be dedicated to incompetence to do it.

b. Paint and then pause. That rhythm I wrote about. A week means you do not have a pattern of fingerprints on the wings.

c. Nevertheless, the assembly gets eventually to the stage where it is big enough, yet spindly enough, to be difficult to transport to the club. I found a Tupperware box big enough to provide a hard shell and a stuffing of tissues inside to locate the model. It has travelled to and fro safely.