The Little World

Our club rooms play host to a swap meet every few months and I attend regularly.

It is best to come on the opening gun for these as the bargains can run out quickly. Many of the items on display are of little interest to me – cars, trucks, and tanks – but there is always an admixture of aircraft. I just hope they are in my favoured scale.

Note aside: many of the sellers are people with large stashes. So, too, are the buyers. It is a styrene bourse, with many kits changing hands a number of times. Many of them will never be built – or at least never completed.

I, on the other hand run a minimal stash and build everything I can lay my hands on. This time $ 20 delivered two factory-sealed Airfix kits from 1996 and I left more than satisfied. They are new enough to be good enough and the decals may still work.

The Hunter is a case in point. Good Airfix instructions, reasonable moulding of the time, and clean decal sheet. I will opt for the box scheme as it was at RAF Tengah in the 1960’s. Close enough to here to be relevant.

I note straight away that the nose will need weight, so I might as well go out and pound one out even before I take the kit to the club. Lead, Sir, and damn the toxicity!