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Yesterday was a board game day—we spent seven hours on two scenarios of Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island and a game of The Castles of Burgundy, so there was no time left. Today, though, I am continuing with Cruella.

From this point onward, unless stated otherwise or obvious from the context, all abbreviations use the Latin alphabet.

Actually, not quite—there is a little group of board gamers at Nadya’s office who play after work every Tuesday. She asked me to refresh our memories of Brass: Birmingham so they could play it next week.

We played half a game (Nadya got a little confused about discarding cards, and we had already remembered how to play anyway). At 14:15 I started clearing the kitchen table without any particular hurry, and around 14:20 I sat down to build.

I am continuing with the steps, though not quite in order:

The two pages of the instruction booklet happen to open at these steps, so I tackled them in whatever order was most convenient.

First I did step 9—no problems at all. I was even surprised by how clear the headlight lenses T14 stayed. If you did not know, when you glue clear headlights with ordinary model cement, its fumes can turn the lenses milky white. There are even special cements to prevent this, but this time I managed without one. Still, a note to myself to buy some…

Then I decided to tackle the photo-etched parts. And here—a problem! All right, a “problem.” The part numbers in the instruction booklet turned out to be mixed up and did not match the numbering on the fret. Or perhaps I am just too stupid and could not match them up…

On the other hand, even I am not quite that stupid, so you can easily work out which part goes where from its size and shape.

I glued the two parts labelled W11 in the booklet to the hull, then continued with the two side panels, W6 and W2. Apart from the inconvenience of working with cyanoacrylate glue, there were no problems. I left the two panels unglued to the hull, though, because all the parts should be painted first. The question remains why so many small photo-etched parts had to be glued to the two large photo-etched parts, but let us not get into that…

I continued with all the other small parts that attach to the hull, again leaving the machine guns—they need painting before they can be glued onto the hull too. I also skipped the two mudguards A24. They need to be painted separately and attached only after everything is painted and the tracks are fitted; otherwise, fitting the tracks will be extremely difficult.

So, after about an hour and 40 minutes of work, this is where I got to:

When I will continue is unclear. It may have to wait until next month (in other words, Saturday and Sunday), because it is time to get the airbrush out…