The Little World

You have to wonder how we did it.

I mean back in the last century when we built scale model kits and did not use putty to fill in seams. Were the kits seamless them? Were we blind? Was filling a gap considered a disreputable act?

Well times have changed, and many of you have gotten smarter. You no longer clap you kits together willy-nilly and depend upon locating pins to decide if a fit exists. Many of you file off the pins and slide the fuselage and wing haves together to best advantage – often sacrificing the fit on the bottom for the more visible one on the top.

You resort to a number of fillers to compensate for what the maker has left undone. Commercial tubes, home-made jars, or what have you. You occlude the gaps with strip styrene or superglue. You hack away rivet detail to make contours match and then try to put it back with a pin.

Then you file, sand, cut, and burn it off trying to leave just enough to hide the seam. You raise the valleys and level the mountains. Over and over again.

If it were slavery you could get help from the United Nations.