In common with the Ro44 but unlike most other biplanes, the upper wing mounts directly to the fuselage and therefore shouldn't be a problem, however, the floats, both main and outer wing, are strut mounted and could cause some alignment hassles. While the main float struts are plastic, the outer wing float struts are resin potentially presenting more challenges.

Judging from the box-top artwork, there is some rigging but no rigging diagram is given. Therefore, if you like to rig your models you will nead an outside reference of some kind

The decal, by Etech, are beautifully printed and cover three aircraft, one from the cruiser Montecuccoli in silver, spring 1938, one from the battleship Vittorio Veneto, also in silver, summer 1941 and one from the cruiser Eugenio di Saoia in sky grey upper and sky blue lower surfaces in 1942.

The twelve page instruction booklet has nineteen clear build diagrams and six pages of paint/decal drawings for the three aircraft.

This kit should build into a very interesting model and Octopus [Pavla] should be thanked, along with some other Eastern European manufacturers, for giving us kits of some of the rarer aircraft.

Recommended for the experienced modeller.

Thanks to Squadron.com for the review sample