So someone bought me this for Christmas (SWMBO). This is an almost impossible kit to assemble, as anyone who has ever had one of these Metal Earth kits will know. It is all made out of steel photo etch that is prepainted.
It is a sadistic gift for someone like me, who is not a great model builder but is pig headed enough to say to yourself, This is only a little model and I can certainly put it together. It will not defeat me. Well it came within a whisker of the garbage bin at least 4 times but like I said, I was thinking to myself Nothing that SWMBO has bought me is going to beat me.
It comes in an envelope:
And contains 2 sheets of prepainted PE.
The whole thing is not supposed to need glue but is held together by little metal tabs that have to be folded over through tiny little slots. The first problem being that thin steel sheet generally refuses to be easily bent especially when you are trying to insert three pairs of tweezers through a 1mm space to reach the tab on the inside of the airframe. Yes my version did end up getting glue smeared all over it in a number of places.
If you are stubborn like me then you may end up with something like this in the end.
It is about 1/80th scale. It will now remain in in my collection just long enough for me to show SWMBO that she cannot defeat me with these crappy little model kits.
John
It is a sadistic gift for someone like me, who is not a great model builder but is pig headed enough to say to yourself, This is only a little model and I can certainly put it together. It will not defeat me. Well it came within a whisker of the garbage bin at least 4 times but like I said, I was thinking to myself Nothing that SWMBO has bought me is going to beat me.
It comes in an envelope:
And contains 2 sheets of prepainted PE.
The whole thing is not supposed to need glue but is held together by little metal tabs that have to be folded over through tiny little slots. The first problem being that thin steel sheet generally refuses to be easily bent especially when you are trying to insert three pairs of tweezers through a 1mm space to reach the tab on the inside of the airframe. Yes my version did end up getting glue smeared all over it in a number of places.
If you are stubborn like me then you may end up with something like this in the end.
It is about 1/80th scale. It will now remain in in my collection just long enough for me to show SWMBO that she cannot defeat me with these crappy little model kits.
John
: who's the pranker and who's the pranked one? 
