Unlike the Imperial Guard with their emphasis on ground based heavy armour, the ancient eldar retain enough technology in their Craft Worlds to make elegant and ethereal grav-drive based fighting vehicles depending on their speed and manoeuverability to hit their targets hard. The weapons package carried by the Falcon (Imperial designation) ensures anything it fires at will be destroyed.
The Falcon also has a passenger compartment allowing for the transportation of a small squad from, or to, the battle front.
Overall, this model went together very well with the minimum of fuss. The major problem with this kit was getting the pilots and their cockpits assembled correctly so that they would allow the cockpit covers to open - there's a small piece that fits behind the pilots into which the hinge of the cover fits. Going by the plans, this piece seems to fit to the back of the seating but this means that the body pieces don't fit (trial and error, only with a bit of blue tack to hold everything in place. Wonderful stuff.). It actually does go inside the seating area as an additional backrest for the pilot. After that, everything more-or-less clicked together.
The main body has a passenger compartment with a drop-down hatch, which was just a bit out of true in this kit meaning it doesn't quite close properly. Also, the fit for the belly mounted lasers was so tight that the clips that were supposed to hold it in place had to be removed in order to emplace them. Fortunately it is such a tight fit that the weapons hold in quite well without gluing even without the clips.
The main (lower) pilot's position could have done with being mounted slightly higher - as it is, the glue used to attach the seat seems to have stuck the rotating bit of the belly guns and the gap between the cockpit hinge and the body is just sufficient to let the cockpit drop off if one is not careful!
The red was applied over a white undercoat - one of the few times I use white instead of black for undercoating, as a black undercoat means the red isn't quite as vibrant somehow. Unfortunately, I wasn't quite as steady as I could have wished when adding the black markings on this side - the other side is better, honest.
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