Valier "Raketenschiff"

Another nice kit from Fantastic Plastic. It is #6 in their line of classic rocket ships.  The craft was the idea of  Max Valier, a fan of the rocket scientist Oberth. From FP's site:

Valier's dream was a rocket-powered suborbital "Raketenschiff" (Rocket Ship) that could fly from Berlin to New York City in one hour. In a series of published articles, he proposed evolving his rocket plane from existing commercial aircraft, adding rocket boosters to augment conventional motors until the craft was 100% rocket powered.

 The kit comes in 16 parts and a set of decals. The instructions are a little sparse this time, with a exploded view of the original CAD (I think) and you need to refer to the box art for decal placement.

As mentioned, the kit almost falls out of the box completed. ;)  Check back for the completed model. Thanks for looking.