COBI 893 Pcs Armed Forces /5817/ Sikorsky Black Hawk

Excellent detail and fun

Easy to build and all pieces were present. Very good detail. Holds together well. Cobi kits are quick and easy kits with very good looks. Great for a display piece.

Good so far. The pieces are very easy to mix up and hard to find. If you think one is missing, keep looking. Otherwise so far so good.

Very challenging build but came together and looks great. The guys don't stay in their seats but the thing is impressive regardless.

Arrived on time and as expected.

As a model, this is a lovely piece, durable enough for a little rough handling and looking great on any shelf. However, while I would have given it a 5-star review on those merits, there were a couple of issues that take it down for me.First, the kit was missing a few parts, which while small were important for completing the model. While I had spare pieces from other builds to make up for this, it would be extremely disappointing for somebody without access to spare parts.Second, the included pilot figures don't actually fit in the cockpit very well at all, despite there being seats that look like they ought to work. The figures are too tall, even sitting as low as I could make them; brute-forcing them in actually separated some of the places and pushed the cockpit ceiling up. Currently, the only way to have pilots sitting inside is to have them leaning over and extremely loose. I would also have complained about the fact that, despite having ten seats in the model, we only get two figures, but if they all fit as poorly as the pilots then maybe that's a blessing in disguise.In summary, the finished chopper is fantastic on its own but with missing parts and poor figure compatibility, it ends up being oddly disappointing as a whole.

COBI has always provided a good product.

So I received my item today to opened it just to find that every package was open and it seems like someone started putting it together. See photo, that’s how it was packed in the box.