The Little World

You don’t have to leave a tip.

A morning at my scale modelling club begins with 45-60 minutes on the road – coping with a series of traffic lights and a clogged-up river bridge. It is wearisome but I figure you have to pay for your pleasures somehow.

The comes up to 3 hours of hobby activity; cutting, cementing, painting, and drinking coffee. how much you actually get done in that time depends upon whether you are engaged in political or paint-colour arguments. Sem days it is one part only.

The Delfin was different – not being a later Czech kit with super-detailed cockpit or resin and brass, the basic structure could be fitted and attached in one morning. Kudos to KP for fuselage halves that fit, at least after the locating tabs were removed. I think they have learned to skip this feature and let the modeller figure it out themselves – and generally it makes for a better fit.

The wing pitots were doomed from the start so they will both come off and be drilled for brass replacement. and the nose weight can be slipped in after the wings are on – letting me assess how much is needed. If lead wasn’t a toxic metal and probably fenced in with thousands of health and safety regulations, it would be a good sideline as an aftermarket business – use the inside of fuselages to make moulds for casting weights.

The instructions are exact about the angles of attachment for the three-part wing, but you need to see the detail on the diagram – nothing in print. Which is in Czech, anyway…