HAPYLY Scale DIY Hobby Wooden Ship Science Equipmen Assembly Model Boat Kits Sailing Boat Kit Decor Toy Gift (1:70)

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.

Instructions are in Japanese so I’m mostly winging it, the pieces don’t fit well together and the pictures give little to now direction.

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

This kit is definitely not intended to produce a quality model. The instructions are in chinese and the few picture look like a very poor quality copy. If you have experience with models this could be a nice challenge, if you don't then you'll have to do a fair amount of head scratching and adapting to produce anything acceptable. The quality of the wood and the laser cuts is acceptable, however, the parts supplied were not planned well. Some parts in the limited pictures available on the listing are not included.. And several parts not on the instructions ARE included. I definitely don't think that it's possible to produce anything close to the quality shown in the listing.

Absolutely terrible instructions. Laser cut burned the edges off the wood. BUT IT'S REALLY GOOD TO PRACTICE ON FOR WHEN YOU GET A REAL MODEL SHIP KIT

Instructions are horrible! The written instructions are in Chinese. The images are just as bad (like a really bad xerox copy). And there are no instructions on how to do the outrigging. Fortunately, I’m a 26 year veteran at building wooden model boats, and was able to make lemonade out of a lemon. This kit is not for a novice. Update: Been working on this model since late January 2022. The hull planking is a nightmare, but I found a way to overcome this but only from the experience of building wooden model boats for over two decades. Even as a veteran boat builder, this kit is quite a challenge! The last picture is where I’m at right now. The second picture is a reference I found on the web of another kit of the same boat that shows more quality details. Oh, and the rigging? That’s another challenge! One thing that is good about building this boat is that it brings a serious challenge if you like challenges in wooden model boat building! To all you veterans of model boat building and want to turn a Chinese piece of junk into a treasure, this is for you!

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

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

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