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 truck in various versions. The vehicle revealed as extremely succesfull, so that many other nations introduced the 1,5 to truck, too. Among them are Belgium, Swiss, Chile and the United Kingdom as SAS mothership.

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

The kit consists in 113 resin parts, a set of PE- parts, clear lights glases, a sheet of clear plastic for the windows, decals for three "German" vehicles, a length of wire and the assembly instruction is included. One of the instruction sheets contains a list of all included parts. Each part is shown on drawing and is also named.

Second sheet of instructions contains some general assembly guidelines and the assembly instruction giving instructiuons in the form exploded diagrams. Painting references are given in the instructions using generic color names and numbers.

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, too.

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