The Little World

As opposed to lumpy Potez.

The designs of interwar and early-war French aircraft form a fascinating subdivision of aeronautical insanity. From the angular designs of the late twenties and early thirties to the sleek over-designs of the forties, they seem to have decided to over-run the buffer stops every time they drew up to the drawing board. This Potez is streamline moderne, rather than cubist.

The Azur kit is typical Czech short-run – no locating pins , shallow recessed panel lines, and a bag of resin castings to make up for the economics of casting a third sprue tree. The canopy is centre-cemented with a nose piece, but this may yield to PVA glue when the time comes.

I note that the chap who sold it also invested in a couple of accessory packs of whitemetal machine guns that look very nice indeed.

The instructions are pure Azur and the decal sheet gives three liveries. The final scheme will be some variation of French brown/green/grey.

There may be pinning needed for the wings – but all in all it looks like a good enthusiast’s kit.