When it arrived it came with scale elevations in colour, so my construction was made much easier than I envisaged it would be.
So here is my construction method. Don’t try this at home folks.
Clean up the castings.
Cut out the card body and wings to use as templates.
Photocopy the templates.
Assemble the rear card fuselage.
Mark out the wings onto plasticard.
Mark out the rear fuselage onto the nylon I found in a tea chest 20 years ago.(This is not obligatory. Any suitable soft plastic is preferable.)
Cut out the wings and fuselage.
Refine wings and fuselage shape, if you can find anything hard enough to abrade this particular type of nylon. Belt sander failed, but hot plastic block with no signs of abrasion on it at all managed to burn my finger tips.
Several hours and cusses later..............................!**!!!**
Drill holes in lower and upper wings using the template made at 2 above, ensuring that the holes do not come through the top of the upper wing.
Drill and pin the fuselage halves together.
Green stuff the joint line and fill the under belly hole up to the level of the crews feet positions with the same, and smooth in with water.
Whilst waiting for it to go off, make the card wing jigs, supplied with the model , and produce cammo decals from the cardboard patterns.
Clean up joint with wet and dry when it has cured fully.
Attach the lower wing and the tail unit.
Spray all parts undercoat white.
Paint the front fuselage and underbelly sky blue.
Decal inner sides of top and bottom wing after treating with micro set.
Paint crew, engines and props.
Glue in pilot.
Position engines in Y struts and glue in place.
Place cross struts in side holes in fuselage, but do NOT glue yet. Ensure that they are long enough not to fall out once they are extended to meet the side of the engines.
Fit the top wing and engine struts into the bottom wing and emplace the jigs.
Temporally put in the struts at the ends of each wing to help align the assembly.
Glue engine to bottom wing.
Slide out cross struts from holes in fuselage and glue to engine and also at the fuselage end. (Ensure they are parallel and straight in both planes.
Insert the main struts through holes in lower wing and glue into holes in both wings. Then insert the cabine struts through the top wing and glue in place.
Seal the holes in the top wing, and wet and dry smooth when cured fully.
Paint a white coat over the smoothed off wing surfaces to cover the green stuff and provide a base colour for the wing decals.
Micro set and cammo decal top and bottom wings.
Bend wheel nose assembly to shape and attach to the nose.
Assemble the main wheel struts paying particular attention to the enlarged view supplied with the kit. It is easy to get parts the wrong way round.
Micro set the rest of the areas of the plane which are to be decaled, and add the decals allowing time for each area to dry before moving on to the next.
Lightly brush over the decals with micro sol to help them conform to the contours of the plane.
Paint all the raw wing edges light blue.
Paint the tail plane edges dark blue to match the darker cammo.
Position the propellers and gunners and glue into place.
Varnish the finished model to taste.
Enjoy flying your new Giant.
This one was difficult. No further comment is needed by me.