The Little World

This kit build has nothing to do with Wetaskwin, but if you have been waiting for 60 years to use that line, you just go for it.

The sprue trees that made up this kit looked like a picket fence – or a game of pick-up-sticks; there were that many struts. The box art was no more encouraging. What would a 1965 Airfix design job be like to assemble?

Well, given the wise decision to use two initial strut groups from the engines with broad channels into which to seat them – and the provision of a disposable plastic jig for the trailing edges – the task was amazingly simple and precise.

Those first to strut groups determined the leading edge geometry and the jib squared the back end. Then it was a case of sanding and trying the main struts until they clicked into their positions. If you did them symmetrically, all the stresses equalised and it was just a case of thin cement at the attachment points. Old belt and braces then added PVA re-enforcement.

One of the best wing sub-assemblies yet.