I JUST COULDN'T resist it when I saw this come up for sale on Facebook for sale adds, and so I bought it mid December, and after all the Christmas rush and post it finally arrived this afternoon.
I have the first built, and one of the later ones that served at Blackpool, B - 1 prototype and B - 525 with the the full rear quad mast and self righting baloon, but I have never built B - 500 with the first rear truncated quad mast and NO self righting bag.
And so this will fill the gap and I will have a full set of 3 with subtle differences both in the stern fixings AND the crew seating arangements.