The Little World

Don’t give up the ship.

Or the kit, for that matter.

My first club morning with this kit went very well - the dry parts fit was excellent for a period piece and I was ready to work on the interior by the time I left for home.

I did paint the inside and started to detail the sparse cockpit when I noticed that the clear parts sprue tree was missing. I suspect I tossed it into the scrap bin at the club with other wrappings – and by next Tuesday it would be long gone. Perhaps a club mate would have seen it and saved it, but it was small enough to elude me…no fault if it went into the bin unnoticed.

Well, I am not about to sink this ship for a ha’penny worth of tar – I have plated in the windows and windscreen with Evergreen sheet and will fill the gap up with thin sprue goo layers until it makes the windscreen contour. Then I’ll paint it black and shiny with silver frame bars.

It is a convention in airliner models so I guess it can be extended to this rescue plane. The rest of the model will be shiny and colourful enough.

Hell, my uncle Jack sailed back from Tassafaronga in a cruiser with a coconut log bow…If I do damage, I can do damage control, too. I will get me a red jumper.