The Little World

Grown old in the mould – but tarted up with a new box.

This Airfix model is a 1990 re-box of a series of Moths that originally hatched in 1957. It started in a plastic baggie cocoon but eventually graduated to the small cardboard box.

At least that allowed Airfix more surface area to print upon and they could come up with a pretty good rear-of-box colour profile of the original plane. The instructions are definitely from the 80’s.

All to the good and all pretty irrelevant – I have built an old Tiger Moth in RCAF trainer colours and might re-visit it the future if one of their civilian-marked kits re-appears. In the meantime the Kate Moth will be completed with the aid of a set of floats from the spares box as well as a new set of interplane struts.

It is not that the ones on the sprue trees are missing – it’s just that they are so woefully inadequate. Spindly and bent – the struts you have when you cannot strut any more…

Far better to risk the replacement set and accept a slightly changed wing position. The floats would be a new flying sensation anyway.