The Little World

How can a short-run moulder be so good at making injected parts…

And then make so many bad resin ones; detailed resin panels that are meant to fit precisely. ” Meant ” is a curiously elastic word.

I have been making two cockpit tubs from this Czech kit – they involve sides, back and top – a little box of detail, if you will. The real cockpit has a straight floor and plumb sides. Aero builders are like that – fussy.

The parts that make up the model tubs are, in themselves, wonderfully detailed and precise. But they do not fit together with any of these characteristics; where they can sway, they sway, and where they can veer, they veer. In the end they’re less precise than a simple injected box that would drop into the fuselage interior.

In some cases they are a worse proposition than just two pegs protruding from the fuselage sides. I am cynical about the standards of the 1950’s but they did give us cockpits that worked…

Sand, sand, sand. Cut, cut, cut. Bitch, bitch, bitch. I’m so glad I’m having fun…