The Little World

A rare week – it is not often that I build two models in one week – in parallel – of the same plane.

I have no regrets. The seams and pins of the old Airfix kit yielded eventually to Sprue Goo and the the wretched struts were eventually cemented home in roughly the right positions.

The paints were easy to mix, the parts (mostly ) fit, and the Airfix decals floated down perfectly. The home-printed stripe insignia were done as duplicates on the inkjet printer and it was a good thing, too. Several of them folded or scrubbed off and I barely got enough to finish the job.

The grey-silver-black aircraft is Royal New Zealand Air Force and the linen-silver one belongs to the Irish Free State Air Corps. A first for the collection. And misalignments and odd angles are straight from the kit box but considering that the originals were wired together they may have had many warps as well.