4D Cityscape Puzzle USA by masa - Non scale - Finished

[modeller_masa]

I'm not a fan of puzzle because a child played lots of puzzles when she was an infant. (As you expected, she started, and I completed 1K pieces puzzle every time...) Therefore, when I found this puzzle, I thought this puzzle is pretty much promising to compare with the past puzzles. This puzzle has some educational features, and unpainted figures inspired me to concern painting works I haven't experienced.

 

I used PVC glue to attach 950 pieces puzzle with custom ordered frame, and epoxy glue to the rest of works. Also, I used acrylic paints with the Pledge as varnish. 

 

I also made a manual for her. I thought the coloring of the entire puzzle and hand paints on each figures are not looking good due to my poor art sense, so its artistic value is not appropriate for girl's room... Instead of it, I included lots of beautiful and interesting pictures into the guidebook to attract interests and add educational values.

 

It was great chance to train how to use brush and acrylic paints. Every hobby areas helps each other, and this kit definitely helps newbies like me.

 

At near the end of the process, I found that the statue of liberty fled for freedom from my home. She might be bored my slow hand... I had to print it using my new 3D SLA printer. The center shroud is my test sample to enhance my another ongoing project - HMS Victory 1:450 model. (The right shroud is an original part.) 

 

 

There are some reasons I couldn't focus on painting work. Some building figures are not accurate or wrong buildings. For example, No. 86 is not the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, but the Tennessee Aquarium. Also, a figure of the Alaska Museum of Natural History is completely different from the picture of an original manual. The box says its version is 'v1.1', and I hope you get newer version that includes fixed manual and corrected figures if you buy same kit. I attach TXT file in case of you are interested in a corrected list of building figures. In addition, I would say that selection of buildings are a bit biased. Probably newer kits supervised by National Geographics will be more educational and accurate.

 

4D Cityscape USA Building List.txt

 

This is my compaint against the kit company, so you can skip this paragraph. The company promised that they will release Seoul city kit soon at Toy show in South Korea, 2014. However, they haven't released any Korean kit yet... Instead of Seoul kit, they released kits all of surrounding nations including smaller and younger cities. Although brushing work was still fun after I found the old record, I thought I would have cared more if this was Korea kit... I decided I will make my own 4D cityscape puzzle kit of Korea if the manufacture won't make it. I have SLA 3D printer and CNC machine, so I can make all puzzle components of my nation's version anytime. It's not my priority work, but I listed it at the end of wish list.

 

 

I hope you enjoyed to watch an unfamiliar model work as I always do on this forum. The next model will be a train to be finished within this month.