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I've had this kit languishing in the pile for some time. I've occasionally looked in the box, thought a bit and pondered, and put it away again. It looks like an original issue of the 1st kit ever issued by Heller..... EASY, EEEEASY you collectors..... ‼️ I'd never read the back of the box, which is a grave omission with any Heller products. Until a couple of weeks ago while discussing on the chat thread..... What I have is an "Exact Reproduction, in a Numbered Limited Edition, of the First Heller Box Produced in 1957" The barcode is a bit of a give away, isn't it?? Never the less the plastic and the instructions are as they were, and the Decal sheet is well short of modern standards of what we have come to expect. So I'm going to make a start and see how far I can get. I doubt that it will be all the way to completion. So far, all I've done is release the rudder from the fuselage sides. Visible there among all the raised details are a couple of sweeping lines across the fin. They are the delineated outline for the Air France decor! 🤔😕 A major hurdle I'm anticipating is the front windscreen parts. The transparencies are way too big for the moulding which has all the glazing bars already in situ. If the transparencies are placed over the nose, then the discrepancy becomes painfully obvious..... This was one major reason for always closing the box and putting it away again. I don't know if this is what you got back in 1957, and it's been carefully reproduced here in the name of historical accuracy, or a more modern error in making the repro kit. But I'm going to have to come up with some magical solutions. No better place than on here, right ⁉️🤩
