<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS">if you go to towerhobbies website and look up the P-47 kit and click on it, there is a hyper link for the instruction manual. click on that and read it about a hundred times before you even buy the kit, so you are familiar with the build. that gives you time to plan on doing things differently if you wish and have the mad skills to do, plus, you can plan any detailing that isn't in the manual or building process; such as panels, etc. in the beginning of the manual, there will be a list of what is included in the kit for you to ponder over and it will tell you different ways of doing the LG and whatnot engine information, what type of retracts to use if you decide later to switch to them (requiring mods to fixed gear construction). i was looking at all their kits, trying to figure out which one i want to build, but all the manuals are there. i've also heard that top flight has some of the best kits out there. here's the link to it:
http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...LXHU86&P=0
read up on it though, if not just for the sick enjoyment of reading about building stuff. (likeme...
) i have many manuals for planes i don't even have,would like to build, but don't have the time for all of them.</span>