Hi Ralph,
Thanklyou for your efforts, I didnt know that Italeri also bought some of Esci's molds. I'll ping an email to them later today. I've also put my problem up on some facebook groups I'm a member of, got some possible leads, but nothing concrete yet unfortunately. I have managed to find some online builds, with tantalising glimpses of the assembly instructions underneath the 'in progress' model. For the moment, at least I can make a start on the bloody thing....May even do a build log :-)