The Little World

You can only put off the inevitable so long.

Eventually it becomes horribly evitable and you either have to shit or climb off the pot. I finally had to start sawing on the Bristol.

The vac-form plate was a surprisingly easy task. I’d YouTubed a group of modellers in Canberra who were discussing vac-form modelling and picked up several good ideas. I applied their experience and the parts came off the plate beautifully.

The parts also joined well, with internal reinforcements. The parts were as good as their moulders intended. I just needed to mutilate the Airfix kit to attach them…

Note to those who would take their hearts into their hands: wash well and dry on a clean towel. Nothing feels worse than a slimy heart when your hands are dirty…

The trick turned out to be holding the vac-form nose against the Airfix fuselage and pencilling around it – then subtracting half a millimetre for the pencil lead. The subsequent cut line was fine – with the slack to be taken up later with Sprue Goo.

The tail was even easier – and as I joined the halves with Mr Cement Special cement they set perfectly – no mess.

Read my next chapter, when I try to cut my way down through the layers of Sprue Goo to make a decent nose. If the language becomes robust you can gaze at the ceiling and think of the Empire.