General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

I once made one of those balsa models, and in the kit there was a plan, a template on a sort of greaseproof type paper, and you started off making one side of the model using the printed template on the paper, and yoo pinned on to the template paper, I think they are called the frame sections of the aircraft and then glooed the stringers on to the frames forming the basic shape of the plane, and there was a lot of cutting and sniping of the balsa wood, and there would be balsa sections missing, so I would go to the craft shop, which at that time was an earlier version of this shop in Mesnes Street.



From there I would buy pieces of balsa wood and make parts for the model, from the shapes and information given in the template drawing.

After many months the plane fuselage was finished, and to make the aircraft skin, I used tishoo, stretched over the aircraft frame, which was glooed and stiffened into place by dope, after that painting it.

I never got round to fitting an engine and RC equipment to the plane, and it spent may years hanging down on string from my bedroom ceiling