The Little World

And if the business the Dornier Do 27 is engaged in is aerial observation…it is superbly designed.

From the pilot’s seats you can see every blessed thing down and forwards while from the passenger’s benches you also have a completely open set of side hatches. This would be a good plane to leap out of as a sky diver.

The Huma kit is not as precise as some of the later Czech or Ukrainian offerings but a little selective sanding closes the fuselage halves. No locating tabs, naturally, but I’m starting to appreciate the freedom this gives for micro-adjustments. I expected the rather solid wing to be a bad fit but was pleasantly surprised at the way it settled on the fuselage.

Likewise I viewed the windows – clear as they are – with trepidation as there was only a rim to fit them on. However, a little careful sanding put both side and front panels in reasonably well. The centreline joint for th windscreen is clumsy, but a picture taken of the real thing in hatzerim suggested a way to make that useful…

The windows went on well enough with Microtape that they could be coated with liquid mask and seal the interior for the painting. Note that the only filling needed was a little sprue goo in the tail section.