Pomp and Circumstance
Finally. She is complete. My longest unfinished project is a little rough but she is ready.
Don’t look too close; you’ll see that I didn’t make this one to speculation. That multitude of plants I had left to built? I didn’t make them all. I made a few but quickly grew tired and frustrated at all the small paper pieces, so I made my own variations or duplicates with extra pieces.
Two half walls attached to this giant plastic shell that I had to fold and pop into place.
And then I had to glue the ceiling light and wiring into place. In that plastic casing. Which was very small. And I had adult-sized hands.
We also had a tiny collapse when putting the outside shell on. I had to reach in with Tweezers to retrieve.
The top shelf had to be glued back on and then put glue on the feet and had to slip it back in; hopefully I didn’t knock anything over.
There were some rookie mistakes - remember, this was initially my first kit - including the flooring. I glued the flooring paper to the wrong side of the floorboard. I didn’t realize it mattered until I was trying to fit everything together and noticed that notches on the floorboard weren’t linking into the walls. Oops. You can see I just flipped it over and accepted the wood flooring piece as the floor.
Another glaringly obvious mistake. Those notches are supposed to go into holes and be flush with the base.
Some of this was likely beginner error in construction, but some of those wooden planks came slightly warped and I will not be taking all the blame.
I also had to tip the whole thing upside down to fit in some of the ceiling wiring and didn’t realize until too late that the hanging light got tilted.
Honestly, I was glad when I finished this one. I had a hard time not doing every single plant to the instructions, but I got to a point where I was putting all the pieces in the room and realized that no one would miss a plant or two. No one would realize I had replaced a finicky design with something a little easier.
I’m not planning on putting this in the Louvre, so it doesn’t have to be perfect. Its main purpose is my enjoyment, so I could decide when it was good enough for me.
It’s still super cute and when they’re all lined up, you can’t see the imperfections. It’s a mini kit so dexterity is important, but I’d say even more so with this one. There was a lot of rolling up tiny squares of flimsy paper, so you want to have that patience and ability.
Next up will be something different. We’ll take a break from minis for a bit. I could use the break and so could my hands.
Project Notes:
Link - $39.99
Difficulty level: 5/5 (I’m calling it)
Time commitment: a Week (because you’re going to need to take breaks)
Bonus:
Because the batteries came in this kit, I did test my last kit to make sure I had wired it correctly:
