The Little World

I was right to wonder about the fragility of the cockpit on this Dora Wings kit.

Even at the outset, some parts did not come off the sprue trees intact. Fortunately there are pieces of Evergreen plastic in the scrap box that match the profile of the broken pieces.

The fact that the greenhouse is so large on this design is a wonderful hazard – you daren’t leave out any of the major cockpit structures lest you make the thing look bare. The seat is spindly, and so are the structures around it – however the cage does fit relatively well inside the fuselage mouldings and only a little fettling shrinks the thing to allow closure.

The large structure dead in the centre of gravity is the fuel tank – it contributes a lot to the integrity of the fuselage. Still progressive cementation, though.

Note that there are some small areas that suggest short shots but these may have been left that way to allow the cage to be squeezed into the fuselage space. Whatever, I shall take them as they come and fill them shut when all is done.

And why was the Bristol exhaust system so complex? Was it because they wanted to make it invisible at night or was BristoI just infested with British Boffins? I shall ask a club ‘rak.