Flying Dutchman

[Gravman]

Since the price of LEGO has gone up so much we decided to see how a knockoff would work. I have heard both good and bad about this kit but you can’t beat the price. Something that may indicate problems ahead is that a hammer is included with the kit. Yikes!

 

[mike25]

The prices of Lego sets are getting higher and higher, and I sometimes look at knockoffs, but I never buy any. I look forward to your updates.

 

[Gravman]

Same with us. Never thought I’d be ok with a knockoff. We hope to start on it tonight. We are going to build the stand first rather than last. I forgot to show the dimensions.

 

[Gravman]

We built the stand first. The parts are in bag 12. There are several #12’s. The main floor plates are in a separate bag with the masts. There are 334 parts to the stand which took us a couple of hours to assemble. The fit was good but you could tell the it was not Lego. The click was loud in spots. There were no missing parts but there were some finger prints on the flat pieces. You don’t see that on Lego. The coloring in the gold parts was streaky in spots. The brown color of the parts on the instructions makes it a bit challenging to determine where they should go. This might be caused by our old eyesight.