
Will Packard
Co-owner of DBMK Model Kits Ltd and Director of Operational Resilience at EY; guest on the Beyond The Box Art scale modelling podcast.
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Sep 24, 2026
Episode 38 - Heller/Glow2B (Europes largest distributor)
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Will PackardGUEST
Uh, you've got, and it, it's, you've got edge distortion as well, is something that you see is that the edge is, the edges of some panels, there's been damage, particularly on things like the cowlings that are frequently removed and put back on, would seem there's a level of distortion.

Will PackardGUEST
To be honest with you, we, we spent a lot of time studying photos of Seafury, of, of, of Spitfires in museums, but also flying ones currently.

Will PackardGUEST
And we've been helped by Fred Mussaf, whose day job is to maintain them, and he's been a fantastic source of information.

Will PackardGUEST
And if we put in surface distortion that you'll see, you see on a flying one, I'm not talking in the air, I'm talking on the ground, people would never believe it and buy it.

Will PackardGUEST
So we're having to literally detune it from the reality just to, because it's, it's just too extreme.

Will PackardGUEST
So yeah, I think that that's, that's, that's something that we hope people will like.
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71:17Are you thinking of including images in the instructions in future that shows some of the deformation that you're talking about and some of the panels to actually show this is an error in production, this is how the aircraft actually looks?
Episode 38 - Heller/Glow2B (Europes largest distributor)
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Will PackardGUEST
I mean, I think the thing is that we're going to be, we want to take the models on the journey.

Will PackardGUEST
People like pretty fine rivets, and this is great, but look, if you can see a rivet to that level of detail, you'd see the fact that the panel is well distorted around the rivet, and that So within the panel itself, there's a kink, and around the edge, it's not a perfect straight line with standing proud by 1.2 millimeters.
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76:58So the question obviously there is, was it Colombian or Brazilian blend you were actually using to test the rigidity of the...
