"Taking your time" is the watchword(s) alright.. managed to get some of the more fragile bits of the engine off the sprue but still had a part break on me.. easily fixed though. The engine itself didn't want to join together until I did some serious trimming of ejector pin flash/removal of locating pins/filing of one half.. and then it went together beautifully.
I have had a Roden Austro Hungarian Oefflag in the stash for a while (and some AM Sworl decals) and love the look of it.. this kit is exhibiting the same sort of standard. I find that I'm paying lots of attention to each part of it, thus far, with a view to making it look as good as possible, even though I'm going to try some new (to me) techniques on it..
Good plan on keeping all of those spare bits. From that habit, I was able to improve my Airfix camel.
Yup.. that (unused) Roden engine is so many leaps and bounds ahead of the Revell or Airfix offreings.. ditto the MGs.. useful spares to have (as are all the excess decals.. I can see some cheap AF/RV Albatros' getting pimped!)
