Formaplane was one of the premiere names in vacuform kits in the early 1970s. I actually built a couple of them and they were fairly basic kits that required a considerable amount of effort from the builder just to do a fair job of the subject.

This one is typical in that it comes in an oversize box with a single sheet of vac plastic and two lengths of plastic rod. This rod is used to make the struts for the wings, tailplanes and the landing gear. It is round so needs to be sanded to an airfoil shape. The vac sheet includes channels the modeler can use to make the various struts so it isn't like you are totally left on your own to shape these.

There are wheels, engine, prop, instrument panel, wings and fuselage halves. Interior bulkheads are provided along with a seat and barrel halves for the machine guns. To make an airfoil shape for the prop, you'll need to fill the back of the prop molding with filler of some sort and then shape it. Same with the engine as you only get the front half. Wings were pretty thin so you may not need to do that for the flight surfaces. The cowling has a number of openings in it that will need to be opened. There is no indication on the cowling just where these go so you need to use the box top or instructions to help in this area.  The windscreen will need to be made from acetate.

Instructions consist of a typed build sequence along with an exploded view of where everything goes. Also supplied is a color and markings diagram. Markings will need to come from the spares box or painted on as no decals are provided.

There are few today who would even consider trying to build a kit like this. I obtained this in the IPMS Gateway kit raffle a few days back. One of the 'dangers' of plunking your funds down for raffles. There were several of these types of kit in the pile, undoubtedly from some vendor who bought a collection from a widow and knew he would never sell it.