The kit contains several sheets of die-cut styrene (the part numbers are shown on the reduced sheet drawings in your manual.) The parts are not fully cut through. Ease them out by cutting around the shapes with a sharp knife. Do not try to cut with a heavy stroke, use gentle pressure and repeated strokes. Cut the parts only as you require them or you will have a box full of parts you do not recognize! It is very helpful to identify the parts with pencil and write the part numbers onto the pieces, with a soft pencil, then erase them out before painting.
 

  This can be done several ways: either place the area to be bent in hot water and gently bend, or place the area to be bent over the edge of a flat piece of plywood, holding the styrene flat to the ply, gently bend the outer edge down and roll backwards and forward over the edge; the styrene 'will start to curve, the further you bend it down the sharper the curve will be.

  If you have to curve strips along their length, hold them between you fingers and thumb at center and pull your hands apart.  As you pull your hands apart bend them upwards as you pull, this will curve the strip to a gentle radius.

  Look at the printed styrene sheet and make sure you know what the parts are. Only cut out the pieces as you need them. Again use a steel rule with a sharp knife and cut away from "the fingers with gentle and repeated strokes.
 

  It helps to get a good finish onto wood dowels if, before you cut them up or final coat paint them, you paint them.  Model Slipway reccommends that you paint them with 2 or 3 coats of "Humbrol®" clear cellulose primer filler. I used a couple coats of Krylon® primer.  Then rub them down between coats to a glass smooth finish. When they are then cut and assembled, they can be painted with the straight finish coat of paint.