The Little World

It could stand for Parliament in a Queensland marginal seat…

As it is, the basic airframe is a beauty – straight and true and that with very little filling or fettling. The wings slipped into a recess in the fuselage sides so that the cement joint was completely hidden. I am a nervous modeller and re-enforced this area with cyanoacrylate cement, but that was just to see if I could glue myself to the cutting mat.

Guess.

The colour scheme for a Ploesti raider is either going to be olive drab or pink sand upper with neutral grey underside. The demarcation lines on period pictures are shown as both muted and wavy or clean and sharp, so as long as you make the line at the bomb bay doors sharp, you can please yourself fore and aft. The engine cowl covers are also variously low or high line. In view of the less-than-perfect moulding here I will do high line.

Once painted underneath, the putty worms went on and I tried the big bottle of cheap masking fluid. It works, but ends up looking like something out of a horror comic. The application is by Q-tip cotton swab and is the simplest thing out. I am going to tip the rest of my Humbrol Maskol into the big bottle to see if I can give it some translucency, but this is just being fussy.