If you are looking for a weekend project, this is probably not a good choice. It took me 2 weeks to put it together but once I was done I was very pleased with the end result. This is the first Trumpeter model I have built and I must say I didn't run into any major problems. The detail on it is incredible but that does come with a price. You have to handle it with extreme care because it is very easy to break off parts. The only couple of negatives that come to mind are there are a couple of places in the instructions that were backwards. The other negative was that there were some very very small photo-etch parts that you either had better have excellent eye sight or a set of jewelers glasses. All in all, fun and interesting to build.