The Little World

No colour call-out.

No decal sheet. No safety instructions. No history of the prototype. Just sprue trees and a basic diagram.

If this describes a lot of the kits you buy, congratulations – but only if you got them cheaply. If you paid full price you deserved all the added extras.

What good would a basic box of plastic be? If it was a model that had a long history with many users, most of that would be documented on the net by now. After-market casters and printers would have made any number of decal sheets and accessories for it. All you would need to buy is the bare bones – the rest would be whatever you rassled up.

I would be willing to buy this sort of kit with my mind on whatever I could make of it. I would not have a drawer full of unused extra decals. And I could make my own decisions about which wrong shade of green to paint it.