The kit comes as 25 pieces cast in a light yellow/tan resin. The parts are generally well done with only a few pinholes on the nose and wings. The fuselage comes as two solid cast pieces, a nose section and a tail section, split vertically directly in front of the wings. There are no decals. For the price of this kit I would have expected some photo-etched pieces for the engine screens and possibly for the pitots, but none were included. Panel lines are engraved. Most are well done, being nice and straight, while others, in particular some of the access panels, are not so straight, almost as if they were done free hand on the master. On my copy the left wing was slightly warped. The vertical stabilizers lacked rudder lines on the rear sides, which had to be scribed. The lines representing the elevators were straight on one side, but crooked on the other. I just left the crooked lines as they were, not feeling like filling them and doing the rescribing, and made sure that they faced down when mounted to the fuselage. I built the kit straight out of the box. Being resin I had to use cyanoacrylate glue, aka super glue. The kit was built as four subassemblies: airframe, the engines and transport cart. There are no locating marks for anything except the wings, which made it difficult in determining exactly where to place the rear horizontal stabilizers and the engine pylons.

As I mentioned above, there is no detail in the engine inlets, so it would have been nice to have some photo-etched parts here. The tubes for the exhaust were solid with a small indent at the outlet. Metal or plastic tubes would have been more preferable. I would have replaced them myself but I didn't have anything of the correct diameter so I left these as they were. The cart is well cast except for the wheels, which were very poor and had sink marks that are impossible to fix without damaging the detail. Painting was problematic. Usually I have a place on a kit where I can insert some kind of a holder, such as a screw or piece of wood dowel, that I can use as a handle during painting. I was unable to do this with the body, so it had to be painted and gloss coated one half at a time. The overall colour is dark green, so I chose to use Testors Russian topside green. Fortunately when it came time to apply the flat coat (Aeromaster Acrylic flat) I was able to hold the kit by the wing's edges while the coat dried. Being acrylic this didn't take long. With the engines I was able to get a wood dolly to friction fit inside the engine intakes, providing a nice handle while they were painted. The instructions indicate the engines are steel coloured. I deviated from this by using Alclad aluminum over a primer coat of Krylon gloss black.

Once everything was painted, I then added the engines to the body. Here the lack of locating marks reared its ugly head. I had a devil of a time getting them into the pylons in somewhat the same location for both engines. And my cyanoacrylate glue didn't help with matters because it had trouble sticking to the smooth Alclad finish

The final touch was to add the pitot tubes shown on the box art and for a towing bar on the transport trolley, both fashioned from Evergreen round plastic rod. They were touched up with a brush.

Conclusion

This definitely one of the better resin kits I have seen, but still not "a walk in the park" build. The kit is expensive and I can only recommend getting this one if you really need to have it in your collection.

Addendum: 18/July/2019

When I first built this model back in 2006, there was very little information on this missile, and nothing regarding reference photos. Over a decade later you now find photographs of test missiles (references [1] & [2] below) exhibiting a nose very similar to the German Fi-103, aka V-1, flying bomb. These photographs bring into doubt the veracity of the rounded nose as depicted by this kit, and until photographs showing this configuration come to light, the rounded nose is in my mind, rather suspect.

[1] astronautix.com
[2] russianspaceweb.com