Thank you, being liked by its pilots is the ultimate accolade. I’m sure the missing blue stand piece will turn up, I just hope not crunched under a shoe!
That was my first ever German airplane model kit way back in 1977 when I was ten years old. My mom bought that for me but didn't buy glue. I had kid's modeling clay which I used to stick the parts together. Of course the kit just fell apart and my mom then got me duco cement which was a thing then in the 70s. Sort of worked, but not that good but I liked how it smelled. It would dry like some fossilized amber. The only part left of that kit which I still have is a wheel spat. Lolz
Good that something survived! Out here, we had a glue that was supposedly good for anything, called Tarzan’s Grip. I tried to build a model with it, and it just left smelly gunk on the parts, with no melting of the plastic into each other as needed. Tarzan didn’t have much of a grip of styrene!
Hi Matt, great review as usual, never seen a blue stand with matchbox before, possibly as this is potentially a later moulding. Thanks James.
Thanks James, it’s certainly a mystery. I can’t find any reference to a blue stand, but I’ll keep looking. Cheers!
Excellent review of a plane that was popular with its pilots. A pity a piece went missing.
Thank you, being liked by its pilots is the ultimate accolade. I’m sure the missing blue stand piece will turn up, I just hope not crunched under a shoe!
Thanks for doing this one - always thought it was a good-looking aircraft.
An absolute pleasure, thanks for the suggestion. I’d forgotten just how nice it was, and still is. Now to build it!
That was my first ever German airplane model kit way back in 1977 when I was ten years old. My mom bought that for me but didn't buy glue. I had kid's modeling clay which I used to stick the parts together. Of course the kit just fell apart and my mom then got me duco cement which was a thing then in the 70s. Sort of worked, but not that good but I liked how it smelled. It would dry like some fossilized amber. The only part left of that kit which I still have is a wheel spat. Lolz
Good that something survived! Out here, we had a glue that was supposedly good for anything, called Tarzan’s Grip. I tried to build a model with it, and it just left smelly gunk on the parts, with no melting of the plastic into each other as needed. Tarzan didn’t have much of a grip of styrene!
I would build it again if I could find one or two
Yes, I haven’t seen any other than this one for a long time. From memory, they go together nicely, for a parasol-wing type.
I have the Airfix kit in my stash
Good stuff, I’m looking to build this one soon, and may follow it up with an Airfix example at some point.
the question is not if the kit is worthy of being built, but rather are you worthy of being the one who builds it.?"
Absolutely, I’ll have to build a few lesser kits first. It’s a really nice machine.