10/1/2010 - Assembly was a breeze. How I wish I could say that about all model kits, but Pegasus made a good one here. There are minimal seams so not much putty / sanding work will be needed. I will hold off on adding the needle nose - the small section of styrene rod in the plastic baglet. The launch rail & stanchions are assembled but not glued into the vac-form base yet. I'm not 100% sure I'll use this - would sort of like to display this on its dock.