The Little World

The RAF night bomber scheme is a grim sort of design.

Well I guess flying 300 miles in the dark, amongst a thousand other flying bomb dumps, and through radar-directed flak is a pretty grim business anyway. With a German Chancellor at one end and Arthur Harris at the other it seems like a murderous sort of tram route to be riding on…

Well, at least 3/4 of this plane is black – little chance of the club experts complaining that you’ve used the wrong colour. They can still grizzle at the top of the fuselage and the wing, but here there are enough standard choices of RAF Dark Earth and Dark Green to get you through. The red inside distracts them anyway…

Masking this time was just at the edges to get a clean separation and then the Big Bottle ‘O Goo smeared about to fill the interstices. It does seem quicker than masking tape once the perimeter is secure. The Tamiya semi-gloss black is not quite as good at coverage as the Mr Color equivalent, but needs must when the devil doesn’t deliver the stocks to Perth hobby shops.

Never mind stashing kits – it’s the good paints we need to hoard.