North Battleship, Military Building Set for Adults, Collectible Army Model to Build and Display, Gift Ideal for Military Enthusiasts (NF10280)

A beautiful replica of the battleship. But missing many small pieces.

Queda muy bien

Esta muy bien solo que las partes traseras y delanteras no se sujeta muy bien y quedan dobladas y tuve que ponerle un soporte con otras piezas de lego qué tenía

Sehr schön zu bauen und sehr gute Teile

This was an enjoyable build. The model designers prioritized accuracy of the overall shape leading to an interesting armored plate design using hinges to achieve the curvature of the hull. This avoids the "jagged" hull build brick designs you often see on many online MOCs (And the Forange 4201 Bismarck - which is actually repackaged and sold by JM Bricklayer and Missini). However, this design does require very careful look at the manual to ensure you place the bits at the right height and position or the plates won't match correctly. This is a situation where the standard "Lego" style isometric view instructions could have used some extra angles. The colors for blue and brown are dark and hard to distinguish in natrual lighting, I find that the red outline to indicate new pieces to be added to the existing structure is not as good as simply using faded backgrounds like in other build brick instruction manuals. These are but minor critiques of an otherwise superb quality product. To my untrained eye, just as good as Lego if you're a build brick enthusiast. The model emphasizes what can be achieved with relatively "standard" Lego pieces and no custom or molded pieces. So if you're the kind of enthusiast that likes models built with pure building bricks you will find this product suits your preference admirably. The compromise is fidelity: some parts of the superstructure aren't 100% accurate and the ratio of the beam is 1:275 with length being 1:310 more or less. This means the model is "fatter" than it should be but that's because the armored plate design with anchors and hinges makes the ship beamier. If having exact ratio proportions is not that important, you will not mind at all. In fact NO existing ship build brick model is 100% exact because it's extremely hard to achieve with building bricks due to the discrete block sizes, some manage to be much closer than others. That's what plastic model building is for anyway if 100% fidelity is your preference. In, conclusion, this is a very affordable (compared to the premium models from COBI), fairly faithful and detailed build brick battleship model that's an enjoyable build (With the caveat that the armored plate requires very careful building and the speed build video makes the overhead placement of flat plates of the top deck easy).

Way better then I was expecting! The blocks are just as strong as Legos, the directions are very easy to read,and understand. The quality in general is very good! Even the box it comes in is very,very strong. I bought a different ship from a different company, and I am using this ships box for that ships pieces! I wasn't missing any pieces. The only downside I could say,is the colors in the book are a little different than the color of the pieces,so be careful when you're building it.