ROKR 3D Wooden Puzzle-Mechanical Car Model-Self Building Vehicle Kits-Brain Teaser Toys-Best Gift for Adults and Kids on Birthday/Christmas Day (Prime Steam Express)(with Carriage)

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I have a few of Rocker's puzzle. Like all their puzzles you have to be careful with some of the pieces but they are fun to do and I mostly have their rovers collection. I will highly recommend anything from Roker. In my opinion well worth the money. You can tell they take great pride in there products, it top notch or they aren’t putting it out for sale.

This was a fun project to do with my husband. The instructions were clear, and we had a great time making it. We added a few personal touches to our finished train, but we had a blast making this.

We purchased the train model for my 8 year old grandson and I to work on. We both thoroughly enjoyed the experience working as a team on it. He would find the parts and remove them then sand the edges for me to assemble. It took about 4.5 hours over the course of 3 days. I am extremely impressed with the precision of the fit of all parts. It is a very delicate model to assemble so patience is required. We did break a couple of parts either in removal from the parts tray or in assembly but they include “spare” parts for some pieces. We were able to make other repairs with white glue. The finished model is fantastic! A word of advice is to sand the leading edges of tabs before assembly to make it a little easier to start to insert.

This is a nice model of a steam locomotive in the 2-6-2 wheel configuration, Prairie type. It has lots of detail & small parts. Some parts have to bend, ie things like the engine cover which is laser-slotted to bend into a curve. With a small model it’s very easy to snap, and judicious use of glue helps. Some of the pipes around the locomotive are small enough that if the larger pieces are very slightly warped, the small ones break. More glue. Wax is a must for putting the ends of parts into holes and slots. My model came with no wax, but I had a small amount left over from other puzzles. When in need, I use small white candles from birthday cakes. They’re excellent. I found following the pictures carefully for things like wheel and axle assembly was a very necessary practice. It doesn’t take me hours to make a 3-D puzzle, it take days. But it’s fun and good for thinking, as problems have to be solved. As a finished product it’s very attractive. It is not made to be used as a toy, only for display. The wheels aren’t made to turn. There is a moving part on the tender - half of the top opens. I won’t make another like it, only because it’s not moveable. I’ve made Rokr-Robotime’s movie projector, airship vehicle and gramophone, all of which actually work! (The airship doesn’t fly, of course, it winds up and runs across the floor.) I’ll stick with pendulums, solar, wind-up, and crank operation just to have more fun.