Hello, friends.
I recently received a number of CardPlane kits from Modele Kartonowe. They are all very nice kits, and it was difficult to decide which to build first. The ultimate deciding factors were 1) the finished model has to fit in my display cabinet, and 2) this kit was the only one I have approximately matching paints for edge coloring.
Unfortunately, unlike some CardPlane kits, there is no English description of the plane, so all I can tell for now is that it was a single-seat fighter prototype developed in the early 1930's. It was unusual in that the wings were swept forward, allowing the wing roots to attach to the fuselage behind the pilot, giving him an excellent field of view.
The kit consists of two pages of instructions in Polish, two pages of diagrams, four pages of single-thickness parts, and two pages of parts to be laminated onto thicker stock. The printing is excellent, and the diagrams are clear, as is typical for CardPlane kits. As a bonus, parts for detailing the cockpit and engine can be downloaded for free at the Modele Kartonowe site. I will be adding the extra detail parts to my model. One can also download a sample parts page in PDF format, as well as see some pictures of the completed prototype model, one of which is shown below.
My last build was the CardPlane WZ-X. It was not without difficulties, but over-all it was a very enjoyable build and produced a fine model. I am very much looking forward to getting started on this model, and then maybe another CardPlane subject after that.
Uebrigens, genau wie unser Freund Leif aus Schweden, ich schreibe lieber auf englisch, kann aber deutsch ohne Schwierigkeiten lesen...wenn man nicht zu viel Slang nuetzt.
Tschuess!