[Sakrison]

I suppose most of the models I build are level 3 or 4, with an occasion 5. What publishers call "difficult" might simply have lots of parts, making it time-consuming but not actually difficult. (The hardest part of building GPM's "Bismarck" was fitting it onto my workbench.)

Some the most difficult kits I've built were level 2 or 3 models with lousy instructions. The Porsche 962C I'm working on is a case in point -- lots of parts, most subassemblies at level 2 or 3, but the *&%$#@! instruction diagrams are a nightmare.

I rarely consider the difficulty of a kit when I'm deciding what to build. More important is the time I'll likely need to devote to it and whether or not I have room to display it.