Initially, it was a dream. Little box, decent art, one page instructions, only roughly 20 parts total. "It's a cinch", I told myself. "Be done in a week."
4 working days later I am still trying to decipher the instructions and also make the two fuselage pieces mate. I swear that the two fuselage pieces aren't even from the same kit. Raised detail on the left at the seam isn't duplicated on the right at the seam. The halved vertical stabilizer on the right is larger than the left.
The instructions are several drawings with no writing (probably to cross the language boundaries). But if a picture can speak a thousand words, then these crude drawings do a pretty good Mime impression. First off, the pieces that are sketched showing their positions during their step in the creation, do not even resemble any pieces in the kit. There are no piece numbers like other kits. Just crude drawings of the pieces.
Secondly, the only writing on the instructions are for paint colors. Which are written in half English / half Czech. I can read "black" and "red", but what are "plast" or "svetle seda"?
The cockpit was fully constructed from the get-go. It fell out of the box a molded cockpit from the factory. I was in shock. Nice touch, but it was difficult to do some of the painting I normally would have done pre-glued, such as the seats and the flooring.
Okay... WORK IN PROGRESS. I am still making things fit. I will keep updates here as it goes along. I like the challenge!
