HAPYLY Scale DIY Hobby Wooden Ship Science Equipmen Assembly Model Boat Kits Sailing Boat Kit Decor Toy Gift (1:100)

Nice trawler, parts are laser cut and look clean... directions are so-so once you get to the rigging... same for most of the ship models, especially the ones from the 1700 to 1917 or so, when powered ships took over for Sail power.

I guess for the price I shouldn't really complain but I'm going to anyway. I've been building ship models for years and wooden kits have gotten expensive so when I say this kit for this price I thought; how bad can it be? It'll be a fun little project between larger more involved projects.... Turns out how bad it can be is pretty bad. Many of the pieces are so thin they break if you look at them wrong. And many of them don't fit together correctly. Now usually when that happens with a wooden kit you can do a little trimming, a little sanding, but not with this kit because a half dozen pieces broke when I tried to even lightly sand them to size. Lastly the directions are terrible, there's just vague diagrams and several times the pieces in the parts sheets I received didn't even match the numbers on the directions so I had to adlib. There were also parts in the sheets that weren't represented on the directions at all and didn't seem to fit anywhere. About halfway through I decided it wasn't worth the time (or the aggravation) it would take to turn this kit into anything even approaching a decent ship model so I tossed it, wrote off the cost, and moved on to a more expensive but viable kit that would actually be worth the time invested. You really do get what you pay for and in this instance what you get is junk, don't bother.

A lot of the previous reviews were negative due to the parts not fitting together like a 3-D puzzle. What you need to know about this little boat model, is that it is not a 3-D puzzle! It’s a real model and it will require some fitting and filling and sanding to make it come out very nice. It will help, if you have some experience with wooden models. Also, as previously noted, the instructions are basically just pictures and they’re not super clear, but again, if you have some experience building wooden models especially boat models, you should be able to figure it out. To dress up the model, I added some commercial parts such as lights, and lifeboats, portholes etc. These vastly improved some of the provided detail parts, but they are certainly usable if that’s the way you want to go. All in all, a very enjoyable kit. I cannot say exactly how many hours it took to build it, but it certainly was not a one or two night build. It was an hour or so a night over the course of two or three weeks.

Be patient. Don't rush. I saw the reviews about the instructions. I would agree that the instructions are sparing, but it's not a big deal. The pictures are helpful when assembling. Pros: 1. Cheap introductory product for learning 2. High quality wood print. Very few laser burns on the product. 3. Fun to assemble (kept me busy for several months - but I'm going slow) Cons: 1. Low quality cannons that come with the product (I majorly dislike the square cannons - I plan to 3d print my cannons for better results) 2. Low quality string that comes with the product - I recommend buying separate twine 3. Low quality cloth for the sails 4. The deck for the boat is one solid sheet of wood. There isn't much depth to the deck. I would have liked to lay the individual planks, and will look for a product with individual planks in the future. Tips: 1. If you are using super glue make sure you are in a WELL ventilated area! 2. Go slow. 3. Sanding does miracles. *Update Missing parts

lot of fun assembling. Directions a bit hard to follow but is possible with care. I have ordered another one as well.

The directions are TERRIBLE. There are only pictures that are so small you'll need a magnifying glass to see the numbers, and then make some good guesses about what the picture is trying to tell you. Especially when it comes to the sail! I piece of cloth and pictures tells you NOTHING about what needs to be done to make the sail look like a sail. Oy. As for the wood, the pieces are cut really well and very cleanly. Only a small amount of knife work needed to free a few of the stubborn pieces. The wood peices are also well numbered -- unless they fell out of the wood during shipping. Then you have to figure out what came from where. Some advanced skills are needed to put this thing together. The sides are single pieces and need some work to bend them to fit. In addition, you'll need a jig or a number of clamps to hold things together while the glue dries. The strangle angles can make this quite challenging. Overall, though, I like building stuff by hand, and I like figuring some of this stuff out, so I've enjoyed the kit overall.

Really good! I needed this. Thank you. This is great.

I got this as a test of how I would like building this type of model. At the price point I wasn't expecting much, but it didn't even meet those meager expectation. The instructions are a joke- you get one page in Mandarin with diagrams showing you which pieces to assemble where. The problem is not all pieces are easily identifiable, and I'm fairly certain some (the cannons) were missing. The materials were flimsy and very fragile. The fit between hull pieces was tight, which was great until I tried to lay the deck down. At that point, no matter how careful I was, pieces just kept breaking off until finally, I had to scrap her. The back of the first page of instructions showed how the masts were to be positioned, as well as the sails and some rigging, but it didn't look complete. The second page was the patterns for the sails- you get a small piece of cloth, and you have to cut the sails by hand. If you are looking to build a wooden ship, do yourself a favor. Spend the money to get a good kit, and skip this one entirely.

Terrible instructions, tiny pieces kept breaking so needed repairing and gluing, some pieces were mislabelled….

Good ship,but need lots of work. Not very beginer friendly.

Very small, like something you would buy from a dollar store, thin wood and instructions were all in Chinese. I returned it in time but have yet to hear back from the buyer/company or get my refund. It's been over a month. Very dissapointed. If I would give 0 stars I would