I have previously reviewed a few other ICM kits, and I would say that this one was perhaps the hardest kit I have attempted from them. Let me first say that this kit has the extremely high quality and detail that I have come to expect from ICM. The reason I say this was the hardest for me would have to be the scale of the kit. This is a very nice and well detailed ship in 1:700 scale, which is quite common for ship models. This is the first 1:700 scale ship I have built. The scale itself is not bad at all. The part I have extreme difficulty with is the small details ICM produced for this scale. This was far more detailed than I expected for this scale (more detail than a 1:350 ship I had built previously), and some of those details were just too small for me to manipulate and fit as they are supposed to.