The Little World

Rinse, Repeat, repeat, repeat.

It’s all your own fault, you know. You chose a scheme that has more than one colour and spurned the maker’s decal sheet. You could have done it as a prototype with bare metal, a works number, and be done in time for tea.

But no, you had to pick something with four colours that would take a square metre of masking tape each time you needed the next stripe. The only saving grace was the fact that the wings were one colour, could be painted separately, and then stuck on afterwards.

Of course there were the inevitable bleeds where masking tape did not clasp a rivet line firmly enough. There would be scraping and patching. Just as well that the original aircraft was a workhorse that accumulated its share of grubby patches anyway. No showroom supercar, this.