Revell 04218 Airbus A380 Design New livery "First Flight" 1:144 Scale Unbuilt/Unpainted Plastic Model Kit

This is a Revell model with loads of tiny, fiddly bits to fit together and paint.This model is not for children to do and certainly not to play with.That said it took me 3 weeks to build and paint but it loved it, the model has lots of fine details and intricate building to do so well worth the effort.

The Airbus A380 kit is up to Revell's usual high standard. My 14 year old grandson has been able to slowly, but accurately build the kit in order to add it to his collection. It does take patience, but these kits really do encourage engineering style methodology and instils new skills. Not for the faint hearted, but a great kit producing a beautifully accurate model.

I bought this as my first build, it’s a great large scale model which I found reasonable in difficulty. It was fiddly in places so is probably not suitable for younger moddelers without close supervision. Produces a great finish but requires you to buy extra paints if you want to exactly match the livery, however this is pretty standard for this kind of model.The included instructions are good but would be better if they included advice or clearer instructions on the best point in the build process to add the livery stickers and/or paint the plastic parts. I ended up sticking some parts together before adding on one of the stickers which should’ve been placed on first to get the beat finish.Would recommend for anyone wanting to get in to the hobby providing you have sufficient patience!

Bought for our son for Christmas. He’s absolutely loving making it. Very good instructions. Just a pity Amazon delivered it and stuck an address label over the actual picture!

Good idea but low quality.

Well detailed model of the preproduction drawings with only minor differences to the real thing. Available with several different decal sheets. A great addition to any scale airline fleet.

In true Revell fashion this kit disappoints. Plastic mouldings are low quality, all parts are fiddly to remove from the sprues, and many alignment features are just that little bit smaller and less accurate than they need to be. To cap it all the 2 main fuselage mouldings are warped leading to a massive gap around the nose cone which would need filler to repair. Stick to Tamiya kits from now on, at least they've designed them to fit together well.

When finished, it's a nice plane, but unfortunately the description did not specify, that glue and paints you need to finish the model are not included in the set.It should also be pointed out more clearly that the model is for advanced modellers - lever 4 out of possible 5, meaning the kit has hundred of pieced. Not for children aged 8+ but rather 18+. My husband had a week of fun assembling it, while it only took an hour from my 7-year-old son to break the tiny wheels ;)