Here's all the parts, laid out after washing and inventorying. All correct except a few of the 36 pushrods and 72 exhausts came loose. The latter may not get put on anyway -- behind the engine, under the cowl, what are they thinking ? Anyway, no damage, no warpage, no problems. I should have shown the parts as bagged -- each of the fuselage halves and each if the 4 wing halves came separately bagged -- no scratches. The rest of the parts came in 3 bags, by size/delicacy, so no biggish parts were banging against tiny ones.
Here are the decals -- not much to a civilian bird. I might do a Quantas one for something different. The yellow paper is masks for all the windows. There is a color photo-etch sheet. There is also a vac-canopy. The kit gives you a clear resin canopy but it isn't very clear - the vac one may come in handy.
Here's one page of the instructions -- look very clear, well-illustrated, colors called out, etc. The full 'booklet' has 14 pages -- one page potted history, 6 pages of assembly, one page of masking, four pages depicting the 8 marking schemes, and a further two pages explaining the history of those aircraft.
Here's the S.23 (green) against the Italeri Sunderland for an "about the same size" comparison.
I thought I had an article by desmojen (Jen Wright) about building this but all I could find was a now-picture-less thread on BritModeller. Guess I'm on my own. She had same comment as I on the glass quality.
Only bummer is that even though it's resin, it just doesn't have that good ol' resin smell. IMHO, Resicast makes the best smelling kits on the market, but I'm denied that here ….
Anyway, here we are. Wifey and I are going on "vacation" the 1st week of December, so this is up as a placeholder. I will be taking a few models along -- it is a "vacation" after all, and will try to get some work done in that week. I am not taking many paints along and so will probably focus on getting the office and engines done along with some general clean-up and save any heavy painting until I return.
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