This is a awsome lego plane! I got it for Cristmas and it is great for display. If you want to hang it from the ceiling you have to use several wires. Alot of people say it is heavy, but I don't think it is. It's very expensive on Ebay. Over all it is relstic, and detailed and a Great set!

Well first off i'm from the Netherlands and this set is avaible in the toystores here, for 15 euros!!! yes! thats why I now got 5 off them...
building it was really fun! and for some reason I don't seem to have the problem of the bending wings like I read in the other reviews, and the ropes are easily adjustable by turning the ends a bit ! I love it!

Excellent, huge model of WWI airplane. It's a model, not a toy!
Lots of useful, universal elements for quite low price, great design and many details makes this set really worth recommendation.
It's not true that wings are flimsy - if you connect them correctly and precisely they are ok.

Huge plane, very fun to build. The colours are great, and the model is very true to life. Unfortunately, there are errors in the instructions: for the geometry to be perfect, the bottom tan technic bricks 1x8 need to be moved backwards 1 stud. The photo on the box is correctly assembled, and should be your guideline.

i bought this set for $3 at a second hand toy sale at my school thinking that the box only contained a few pieces but was still worth it at that price. when i got it home and looked in there though i found the set was almost 100% complete (minus two pieces) and i knew that i had probably just scored the lego bargain of my life.

the plane is fairly big considering how many pieces there actually are in the set, until i saw the final brick count on here (574) i always thought that there were a lot more, closer to around 700-750 just because it is so large. the variety of bricks in the set is another selling point in my opinion, there are a few pieces here that i don't have in any of my other sets or have never seen in these colors.

the size of the plane and the variety of the bricks made the set an exciting build, although i cant remember exactly how long it took me, possibly around 2-3 hours.

there are 3 areas where the set is let down though. firstly, there are stickers that cover multiple bricks, a real pet hate of mine when it comes to lego sets as its impossible to fully dismantle the set without removing the stickers. the stickers are also quite fragile, i had the plane on display on my desk for about 3 years, out of direct sunlight, and when i took it down to dismantled it this year i found all the stickers on the wings had cracked and were pretty much ruined, which i was pretty disappointed about.

the set is also a bit flimsy, especially on the wings. this isn't a huge problem if your using it for display only but as i had it when i was pretty young and still in to playing with lego, i used this set a bit and you always had to be careful with what you did as it wasn't hard to break, which kind of limited what you could do with it. it can also be a bit of a problem if you move the set around a bit, the wings broke off a couple of times when i was moving mine around

that kind of leads to my next point which is this set is only really fulfilling if your using it as a display set. after about a month or so of trying to play with it as a kid, i kind of gave up as it just kept on breaking, so i put it on display in my room instead. it was much better suited at this as it's size and detail made it look really impressive.

overall, as a set for display it's fantastic, but as a set to play with it's really lacking, which i don't think is a bad thing, it's just something to keep in mind when your buying it. for what i payed for the set i couldn't be happier, i think the retail on it here in Australia was around $120AUD if memory serves me well, so it was basically free. i've seen a sealed one on ebay for around $230AUD which i think is too much, even for an unopened one. if i were looking at buying one now, i wouldn't pay more than $100AUD. i also think it would be worth getting the red baron (10024) as well, just to complement the set. if you had both planes on display, it would look fantastic in my opinion.