Give me a weekend and I’ll give you some completed craft project. Here’s the latest batch:
Thousand Sunny
This is a model kit of one of the ships from the One Piece manga. While I’ve read a few volumes, I’m hardly a fan. But the kit was cheap, I needed a break from robots and I liked how colourful it was. Assembly was simple, and while the kit had a mountain of stickers to assemble they went on easily and I think makes the finished product look very nice. Bonus points for it being small.
Pissing Bear
When I saw this I couldn’t believe it was real and had to buy it. Maybe my first thought was this would be a good gift for someone that liked bears… but I ended up keeping it. It’s not Lego or Nanoblocks – it’s some knockoff Chinese tiny block company. And yes you’re looking at the kit assembled exactly as it is supposed to be – transparent yellow urine stream included. This one will proudly collect dust on a shelf for years!
Neuschwanstein Castle
This ‘Paper Nano’ kit is the first and absolutely last I will ever build. Papercraft is a hobby for the patient, and while I’ve assembled some complex and frustrating things over the years this one trumped all others. Yes it looks quite good in it’s finished form, and yes I managed to avoid making any serious mistakes, but I struggled with the less-than-stellar instructions, the need to glue it together (which I hate) and the absolutely minuscule size of some of the pieces and folds required. The rotational symmetry of some pieces coupled with the unclear instructions led to my version of the castle being slightly different from the real one. Can you see how?
KLS and I are off to NYCC in a couple of days. You can expect the usual maniac blog posts during the event, so watch this space!