A friend recently gave me a huge surprise when he sent me
some printed paper models. It almost felt like having several
Christmas+birthday celebrations on April.
I like to use the gifts I receive. And the same as I would not
store a shirt a friend gives me. I feel I cannot leave this models
stored and uncut.
My opinion is that the best way to honour the friend, and the gift,
is to use it.
So here's my building thread of Martinez Casalta's RAF Se5a, one of
the kits I received.
This one's for you Ron, with my deep gratitude!
Editorial Martinez Casalta was a Barcelona-based print that produced
several paper model kits during the 1990s. They were released under
the commercial name "Paper kit". They published classic cars, a couple
of airplanes (the beloved Fokker Dr.1, and this Se5a), and even a Mikado loco.
Martinez Casalta is not on business anymore, and the kits they
released are now hard to find.
The kit comes in a big envelope, containing 10 pages of printed parts
plus 2 pages of reinforcement parts and a sheet of pre-cut cardboard
parts. The content can be seen on the back of the envelope.
It also contains a page of very general instructions in three languages
(Spanish, English, and German). And a big page with assembly diagrams.
Here's a photo of some of the pages. For size reference, the orange
plastic triangle on the bottom right corner is a 32cms (12in) triangle.
And here's a photo of my left hand next to some of the cockpit parts.
Assembly will be interesting. Diagrams are very clear and easy to understand.
But for some strange reason, parts have a very weird numbering order,
as you can see in the very first diagram:
I will start cutting tonight. First I have to clean my working table,
wash the cutting mat and order some other things here at my house.
Soon (or maybe tomorrow) the first pictures.
