One Step Forward, Another Step Back!
Problems With An ‘Easy Build’ Model
The Revell 3D card model of Cologne Cathedral is supposed to be a fairly simple - ‘beginner friendly’ (age 10+) - project. And I had originally estimated that - even with my intermittent hobby schedule - that I would easily complete the model within a week. Er… Nope. 😖
The main issue has been the simplicity of the model’s construction method - folding and interlocking card tabs. Without glue these means of joining parts were apt to just pop apart, doing a lot of the work I had do this far on the project.
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| Above: A particular problem with the model was the small roofs that peppered the building. Each had to be folded in half and the a simple tab and slot system was used to keep them in place. In reality, all these small parts just simply sprung apart again! |
This became very apparent when I was forced to leave this project for a couple of days while I got on with other things. While I had thought all the components were firmly pt together during construction they had been slowly coming loose from one another other the couple of days. So, when I went back to the model, several parts had popped back out or unfolded themselves! ðŸ˜
It’s a bit annoying as Revell is a long time and experienced design of kits, though the difference is that this is not a plastic kit but a foam backed card puzzle. This left me thinking that they might have been better sticking to their traditional use of plastic, though - of course - that would have had an impact on the cost of the model (and perhaps have restricted the appeal of the kit to those with prior experience of making plastic construction kits)…
[Had they done a more sturdy plastic kit it might have allowed them to add extra features like building in a means to light p the model. That would have been cool!]
Anyway, I had to go back over a lot of the work I had already done, checking to see which were the worst of the unfolding component parts. I did not want to start gluing everything together, just the worst culprits, as this sorta went against the idea of the model being a *3D puzzle* and not a plastic kit. I know that sound weird, but it’s a ‘me thing’. LOL
I spent a morning putting things right again and getting back to where I was when I left off (what is it with me and models and having to redo work I thought I had already done at the moment) and eventually I had a reasonable solid set of sub-components again and was ready to move on the the next stage in the instructions…
Sigh! Ah well, no major harm done - it’s just a bit annoying when this was supposed to be a ‘easy’ no-stress sort of model. LMAO
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| Above: All back together again! |
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