Bought this monster from Bob Craddock for a fairly reasonable price. I had one when they were in production, but never finished it. Thought it would make a good Sport Scale project for the Hobbytown Classic. The kit goes together well, with the typical well illustrated instructions. The main degree of difficulty comes from making the thing into a better contender (surely the only folks still building these rare kits...). The injection molded parts fit the tubes well enough for flight safety, but leave serious gaps between the part and the tube end. The parts in my set were also slightly out-of-round, but sitting in some hobby shop basement for 15yr could be the cause of that! Luckily, I've had some experience building plastic models. The gaps were filled using Squadron White Putty. The main effort on this kit was cutting & sanding down the curved wooden strips that model the long conduit covers on the prototype. Just for grins, I used some little photoetched rings for some of the exterior detail. It'll never be seen from a judging distance, but it looks great close-up! Had to use two sets of decals, my original set was off-register, and of course the other set has the cracks of age. Despite what it sounds like, I really enjoyed the thing. It's 1

....And the contest? Well, it  won! Even without fancy flight tricks, it looks great in the air. I think this, combined with  the size of the model and it's rarity, worked for me in the judging (won by only 5pts over a beautiful Merc