[A. Pirling]

Dear cardboard modelers!
For the following report, I apologize for the strange English.
The English I learned in school is not good enough,
to give it here in writing from me.
Therefore I use the translation software DEEPLE.

After the Fokker Dr I from Casalta in 1:14
I would like to start today with the
the S.E.5a from the same publisher in the same scale.

I have also built this model some years ago.
some years ago. At that time I knew nothing about it,
that you can improve the visual effect of a cardboard model by coloring the edges and folds.
to improve the optical effect of a cardboard model.

At the end of this report I will show both models for comparison.

Scale: 1:14
10 pages with parts on high gloss, relatively thin cardboard.
2 pages with parts on gray, solid cardboard.
2/3 pages with pre-cut reinforcement parts
1/3 pages with pre-cut thin but very strong former parts

36 sketches for each step of construction.

Short building instructions in English, Spanish, German and French

Two small remarks beforehand:

While building the current model, I was surprised over and over again
how much I had to delve into the building instructions again, even though I had
I had already understood and implemented the model and the building techniques years ago.

The second remark refers to the - from my point of view - completely
chaotic arrangement of the part numbers on the individual sheets.
I still spend minutes searching for individual parts.
Whether there is a system in the arrangement of the part number is not apparent to me.
Here are first some pictures of the construction sheet: