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To begin with, there's no box.
I bought this model from GPM in Poland in September of 2014, and
it is in the form of a book that is 16.5 inches by 12 inches. The
book contains 35 pages (explained in greater detail below).
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The inside front cover has instructions, but they are written in
Polish. I translated a few single words and got a fairly good idea
about what's going on. Then, I finally sat down and typed the
whole thing into a Word document, then submitted it to Google
translate. That helped a lot, but non-human translations always
leave a bit to be desired. Here's an example of what I ended up with:
Construction of the model starts with the implementation of Hull.
Segments 1, 2, 3 do not make trouble. Before gluing segments
4, 5, 6, construct the pilots cabin, segments 19 to 26 (Fig. Auxiliary).
Segments 4, 5, 6 are fixed together in this way, with the lower part
paste double frames, ie. 4b to 5a and 5b to 6a, while the upper
parts are concatenated sklejkami.
Apparently, Google has no idea what "sklejkami" means...it just
gave that word back to me. I expect it to be pretty obvious when
I get to that point.
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Actually, the biggest help at how to assemble the thing are two
numbered drawings. These show the placement of internal
bulkheads and sheets of "skin." Also, it's important to notice
that they numbered the model pieces with a certain order
using numbers and letters (for instance, 34a and 27b). The
wings seem to be mostly in the 32, 33 and 34 range...engine
pod parts all start with "37." The drawings and number groupings
are the most helpful aspect.
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There are 14 pages that are printed on normal thickness paper.
These pages contain templates for bulkheads and other parts that
need to be made with a material stronger than 67-pound paper
(approximately the thickness of an index card). The idea is to
cut the thin-paper template out, glue it to 1 or 2 millimeter cardboard
(approximately what you find on the back of a writing tablet),
then cut that part out. In the numbered drawing above you can
see those parts fitted together to form the internal structure of the main fuselage.
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The rest of the kit consists of 21 pages printed on what
seems to be 110-pound paper (slightly thicker than a
standard index card). These are mostly the parts that will
form the skin of the model. This picture shows a page
that is about 16 x 12, and contains one wing tip and some
parts that go on the aft section of the fuselage under the
horizontal tail.
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