Unimog S 404

In 1958 when modern German "Bundeswehr" became alive there was a huge demand for a light truck. The solution was to introduce the Daimler - Benz "Unimog S404". German Bundeswehr bought about 25.000 of this 1,5 to trucks in various versions. One of these versions was the "Radio Cabin C1", which was most used cabine among all parts of the army. The vehicle revealed as extremely succesfull, so that many other nations introduced the 1,5 to truck, too. Among them are Belgium, France, Swiss, Portugal and other NATO nations.

The kit comes in a large cardboard box, about the size of typical plastic kit boxes. The resin parts are packed in zip-bags and are well protected by styrofoam chips.

The kit contains

226 resin parts including the whole interior for the cabine with 3 radios

1 sheet of PE parts

1 set of clear plastic lenses

1 sheet of clear plastic for the windows

decals for three optional vehicles

Assembly instruction

The assembly instruction contains a list of all parts and each part is shown on drawing and is also named. The instrution itself shows the correct place of the parts in drawings and pictures. Painting references are given in the instructions using generic color names.

The resin parts are attached to casting blocks. Attachment points are quite small and they are very easy to remove even for anyone with minimum experience in working with resin kits. On some parts there are deliberately some additional resin pins and plates added to help in casting process and these need to be removed.

All parts have crisp and very well defined details on them.