The Little World

Nothing crude about Eduard scale model kits.

At least if this little crop duster is anything to go by. The mouldings on the sprue trees are superb. In fact I would rate them as highly as some people rate Tamiya offerings in the same scale.

For a person who built some of the very early Special Hobby kits and some of the other, later, Czech kits, this comes as a revelation. Even if the firm suffered a factory fire a year or so ago, they are producing absolutely first-rate results.

The basic assembly of the cockpit was easy, though the decals that make up the control dials take a little care in application – I did not entirely trust the adhesion for such tiny panels and laid them on over Tamiya decal adhesive. The cockpit tray has exactly precise locating ledges in the cockpit sides. – the bulkheads and fuselage sides meet perfectly, and there was no fettling needed to assemble it.

My new practice of adding the clear canopy parts and then masking them ( which everyone else does, too ) meant that I was going to have to be careful with this aircraft – the panels are large and the inside is extremely visible. Again, the panels set in with only the minutest of trimming and thin cement could fix them. I might consider PVA for this step if I doubted the future of the canopy.

The ready-to-paint was really one day – meaning that if you concentrated, you could do this in a weekend.