InAir E-Z Build Classic Airliner Model Kit, Delta Airlines Lockheed 10 Electra

Reader Reviews
We bought this model for a my daughter's school project on Amelia Earhart. The plan was that she'd put it together while I supervised. (She's only nine and does not have any experience with model building). While this model's specs say it takes 15 minutes to put it together, the fit of the parts turned that into forty-five or more minutes.The instructions were pretty much useless. There are illustrations on the sheet for seven different models. Each plane only had one page and that page.......wait for it.....measured about 1 3/4" by 2 1/2"! The instructions were so vague (and small) that they didn't even show you that there are three different size screws that need to go in specific areas. Something that is actually pretty important during the assembly.While joining of the first three parts (both fuselage halves and the tail section) my daughter said the screw holes done's line up. I encouraged her to keep trying, which she did for about five minutes. I looked and sure enough, alignment hole in the fuselage was off by about 3mm once the jig tab was inplace. I ran downstairs to open the hole with a Dremel. Now that the modification was complete, we could now see that the rear jig tab held the tail section crooked. Enough that the average person could see it five feet away. Had to cut off the jig tab and now glue the tail in place (this model was designed to go together with just a screw driver)Now on the main wing panels, I found myself running down to the work shop about five more times (in addition to the three trips to modify the tail section for proper fit) to ground down tabs that misaligned so much that they held the pieces apart. (After the third time I should have just gathered the parts and my daughter and finished down there).While the goal for a $15 model is not perfection, I don't think it should take this much work and time to make the parts fit correctly. I've been building R/C models for 20+ years and fortunately I'm somewhat handy and was able to do the modifications . Not sure most kids or adults without much modeling experience could have gotten it together without a lot of misaligned parts.I do like the overall appearance and am thrilled with the detail, but getting there was not a 15 minute build by any means. Long and short this father-daughter project turned into 95% dad and 5% daughter.