OK, here goes the kit unboxing
The kit when ordered from eBay showed up about a week later. Cost for me was $35 USD plus shipping of $8.80, good price for a nice size kit.
I got a small box in good condition, no rattling or moving inside the box.
Once opened it had a bubble pack with all kits items packed inside for safe shipping.
so now I opened the bubble pack and reveled what was packed inside.
Inside the bubble pack were two pages of instructions, a bag with wood parts, a bag with small parts and a post card of finished build as an example of how to kit will look when done. Next a breakdown of items.
The roll of main wood parts shows good quality work with 3-4 different wood types
The parts bag had three separate bags of item broken out
one zip-lock bag of small wooden detail parts
A second zip-lock with ropes, pins, blocks, posts and small casting parts
Last bag was larger castings to include two crew figures.
Here is close up of the kit info from instructions. These are multi-language instructions.
Sheet 1 page 1
Sheet 1 page 2
Sheet 2 page 3
Parts listing
Close up of one section of instructions, repeated each page in multiple languages
The kit comes with a building jig to get spacing of floor frames and and ships structure properly spaced
Instructions have multiple full scale views of construction of deck and hull sections.
this shows how deck is a bit above base on kit, with ladder going down below and different heights of hull sections.
One thing I didn't see in the kit were recommendation on size of display base needed for building the kit on.
From setting parts out on my cutting mat, a 9" x 12" wood base of nice wood is needed to display the kit.
Hope you enjoyed this review, I think this kit will be a fun small detailed diorama of workings on the ship.