The Little World

It looks at you.

The scale model stand-off; you have bought a kit well beyond your comfort zone. It has 1468 parts plus a booklet and a decal sheet with 47 different options. Every track link has 18 parts and you need to make up 256 of them. This might be fine, except it is a model airliner.

If you are wise you will open this one at home, where no-one can see your face. Down at the club people are going to notice and remember. You cannot look nonchalant when you are sweating.

Why did you buy it? What were you thinking? Will thinking start again soon? Why are there PE coffee spoons in scale? Is this your death knell?

Well, calm down. Someone, somewhere, moulded this and built one for the box art. It can be done. Never mind they were hauled off to the asylum afterwards…you are made of stronger stuff. If you take your time, amd then the time of everyone in your family and most of the neighbourhood, you can finish this kit.

The end result may not look anything like the box art or protoypical images on the internet. It may not be a nose-sitter or a tail-sitter, but the law of gravity means something will touch somewhere. Wingtips? Signal masts? Don’t be fussy.

You went to school for 15 years to get smarter. This kit will do as much for you in a slightly shorter time. And it will save you money in the long run. After 8 hours of cutting and gluing you will be too tired to drink or drive – all that petrol and booze money saved.