I thought I would add a tip in building either of these Revell kits: The hulls on both these kits become considerably stronger if you take leftover sprue and place at least three "spreaders" in each hull, spaced out roughly evenly for the length of the superstructure, before adding the superstructure sides. On both the Revell s/s US and ORIANA, the glue-joint between the superstructure sides and the hull is a potential plane of weakness which is easily broken while handling the model, so these sprue "spreaders" will give much-needed integrity to either kit. Both Ideal/Glencoe liner kits come with a "deckbrace" for the FRANCE kit and three flat, notched "spreaders" for the s/s US kit, so the original designers of these kits had this problem in mind. Pete
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