The Little World

Here’s the scenario: Super Hobby Good Times Model Kit Cooperative produces the first-ever model of the Benoit-Farquarrson medium bomber.

You can get it in Tanganyikan, Ecuadorian, or Moldavian markings – armed with either blunderbusses or cruise drones. There are PE parts, resin parts, and a genuine wooden voodoo idol included with the kit.

Should you be the first to build it?

a. Yes, because you will steal a march on the other competitors for the next Big Local Scale Model Exhibition.

b. No, because no-one has ever heard of the thing, and many people regard it as a fraudulent scam.

c. Yes, because this is likely to be the only time you’ll ever see a kit from this company.

d. No, because it is badly moulded, overpriced, and unlikely to be of interest to anyone – ever.

e. Yes, because no-one can turn up and rak you about the colour or weapons fit. You’ll have the only photo ever taken of the thing and it is so blurred that they could be looking at a aeronautical abscess.

f. No, because someone will buy another kit of this and do it better than you. They’ll win the ribbon and medal and you’ll just finish up with that 1:72 scale abscess.

g. Yes, because you cannot face another Spitstangschmitt.

10. No, because every time you pick it off the shelf the sales staff in the hobby shop snigger and start to do high fives.