Decided to put this here since I won't ever finish this kit,
and doesn't even deserves a space in the reviews thread.
Very few things are so disappointing as finding a promising kit
that turns out to be a huge heap of crap.
The Steampunk Aero carriage designed by Sirius Artworks (Richard Cherry) is exactly that.
I can only deeply regret the money I wasted printing this kit
and the couple of hours I spent starting it this morning.
I started this as a way of warming up my hands again in paper modeling,
and to try a completely new subject.
Steampunk has its own weird attractiveness.
And this kit looked unusual and interesting.
The first seam looks fine.
But then I crashed into this on the other side:
A quite conspicuous 9mm discrepance.
That produces a most horrible fitting problem:
Death by fire is too big a honor for this abomination.
When I found the mistakes I pondered whether to keep on building
and start modifying/detailing. I believed the kit had potential.
I also found that a Czech modeler managed to build a good part of the kit.
And even though he found some more mistakes and managed to make
a few modifications, there is no photo of a finished model.
Pap
But in the end I thought that such a huge mistake in the beginning
is just a red flag of what would come in the end, and decided that
I don’t love steampunk so much as to work deeply on it.
Patience doing something I can’t trust is not exactly one of my virtues,
and I tend to have zero tolerance towards badly designed kits.
I knew that I would spend many more hours hating the designer as I built,
rather than loving the model as it was completed.
The effort fixing this kit would probably be equal to starting it from scratch.
Needless to say I won’t ever go back to this designer
or anything remotely similar.
Not a great way to come back to paper modelling.
I will rather stick to my usual subjects.
Related - a short video expressing my feelings:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84zY33QZO5o
Yeah, I know I'm probably being childish.