The Airfix pilot dream
Once I built a model, an Airfix Spitfire MK1A 1:72. I built it following the specifications, piece by piece, joining the 27B with the 12A and so on, as the manual said. The only thing I didn't liked it is that the cockpit is always closed, so very carefully I saw it and put open over the cockpit frame, exquisitely painted with its dials, switches and controls. And in the middle of the cockpit I put Carl, the pilot. I painted it very carefully, grasping mi right hand with my left hand to counter my clumsy pulse; I make him mouth, eyes, nose, googles, scarf over the reglamentary blouse and his leather helmet with ear pieces. Really, Carl seemed happy. I took a trupan square over wich sandpaper, acrilyc gloss and the mutilated bristles of a brush created the tarmac and grass of an english base of 1940. Over it, in an acrilyc puddle with fake leafs, I put my Spitfire, on a frame, and hanged it on the wall for eternal joy and secret envy of my visitors. Small transparent circles marked