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Continuing the Building plan booklets theme started last month. To understand this, you will need to get to know the dimensions of the boxes (if you are not already familiar with this topic).
Last month I showed some of the smallest kits in the series. These tiny cardboard starter kits had their own model pages. As the series moved towards larger sizes, the box sizes started to increase. When they reached the "standard" size, an extra tray of the same size as the previous one was added. Thus the larger boxes contained more "levels". The sets at the very end of the series were made with a tray of a size of two boxes side by side (there were more of those in the set), and then the top of the series was the "im Schrank" version. This was effectively a piece of furniture. 
Richter was constantly underlining the complementary system of sets. He took every opportunity to make it clear that the purchase of the next box did not make the one previously purchased obsolete. The elements of a smaller set were inextricably linked to the next addition. 
The small kits at the beginning of the series had a small booklet to fit in the box. As a result, the next (now larger) box had a smaller building plan booklet. A KK NF 1 set’s supplement was KK NF 1A. Both are smaller boxes. The resulting set was identical to the contents of KK NF 3 (with the larger box size). However, the booklet was not made to a different size depending on whether it was to go into box 1A or 3.

The same was true for the 3 + 3A pair. The KK NF series reached the "standard" size at set 5. For the GK NF series this was the same for the 2+2A and 4+4A pairs (and let us not mention the ¼ and ½ sets...). The GK NF series reached the "standard" size at set 6, although this was increased twice in the second half of the series (for the 20A and 28A boxes).

The matter is more interesting for the first series of actually supplementing sets. The AF box sizes were also different for the higher numbers. Even the sets of KK and GK series starting in two directions were not the same size at the same height (e.g. KK AF 4 <> KK AF5, GK AF 6 <> GK AF 7). I have already talked about the AF series madness and size problems in the August 2017 month picture. 
The difference in size meant that a large box contained a pile of different sized building booklets, because a larger basic set always contained all the plans for the smaller sets. However, this was not true for a supplement box. For example, GK NF 20 contained the booklets from sets 2, 4, 6, ..., 18, 20. However, GK NF 18A (which supplemented GK NF 18 to GK NF 20) only contained the booklet for set 20. Interestingly, the piles did not contain the single sheet construction pattern of the starter sets.
As an example to the different booklet sizes, check out set Imperator 11 (of the second series).

I will present the patterns for the largest sets next month.