The kit includes left and right wings, fuselage, tail group and the prop/spinner assembly.  The wooden base on the right is not part of the kit any longer.

. . . and if you know what you are doing, this is the result.

Read the disclosure paragraphs below.  If you aren't scared off, click the 'add to cart' button to purchase a model.

The price is $54.00, which includes shipping to the lower 48 states.  Fifty-four bucks is a chunk of money for a plastic model, but it's not remotely cheap for us to have them made.

FULL DISCLOSURE!  Read this before you buy an Ion model kit:

First off, they are pretty heavy—they are not hollow. If you are the kind of person who likes things to have some heft, these are for you.  They weigh about 4-5 pounds. Second, they're pretty big—wingspan is about 21 inches.

Next, they are not just a glue-it-right-out-of-the-box sort of proposition. Because they are resin cast (as opposed to resin molded) they have bubbles and pits in various places.  In any given model, there are around 20 pinhead-sized pits, mostly in leading edges of the horizontal stab and wings.   People who are into models tell us that this is no big deal.  They tell us that you simply fill in the pits with the product of your choice (get thee to a hobby shop) and sand smooth.

Similarly, the guys who made the castings recommend that you drill thin brass rods into each component to hold them straight while you glue it together.

There is some flash on almost all of the parts that needs to be razor bladed off and then sanded smooth.  In the left-hand picture above, you can see a quite considerable amount of flash on the trailing edge of the left wing.

If that's not enough, some of the prop blades got warped in shipping. We are told the fix is easy—they told us to heat the prop by running it under hot water until it is pliable, straighten it, then re-set with cold water. Whew.

AND there are no lines indicating where the canopy should be, so you have to do it by eye.  We are trying to figure out a way to make this easy, but we haven't hit on a method yet.

We tell you all of this for the obvious reason—we don't want anyone to get ticked off that this is not a super-duper ready-for-primetime deal.  It's . . . well, it's a kit.

Resin-cast Ion model

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