I also bought set 5248 a while back and I finally opened it last Tuesday I had fun opening all the bags and trying not to lose anything while we were on our way to site in the van, I didn't bring the box so I only noticed when I'd got abck and looked at the box art that the bucket is meant to go on the front of the cannon not the blue hook on the horses harness
ah well easy mistake to make. I've taken loads of photos of them exploring the woods where we were working which I need to upload at some point I'll share the first few with you for the minute.
I really like this set I think it's got plenty of good accessories like the sleeping roll although it's abit fiddly trying to attach the roll and the gun to the back of the saddle. The horses are also beautiful complete with their Playmobil army brand
and great faces and manes.
I like the detail on all of the soldiers uniforms they look very smart with the cuffs and collars and the hats are all nice although I think it would have been nice if they'd given one or two of the guys a moustache, or stubble better yet some sideburns I do like the old clean shaven spiky haired faces but, it would just be nice to give them some variety
Again the wagon's a pretty nice looking bit of kit and the gun's got an Eagles crest on it which looks quite good, obviously the missiles aren't particularly accurate if you're a collector but, great fun for kids and good that you can slot them into the back of the wagon for storage, I wasn't sure what sort of missiles would look more accurate but, looking at the old sets I noticed that they used yellow cartridges/shells which I think look more accurate.