Voyager Spacecraft 3D Metal Model Kit Fascinations

Very good kit. Metal is thick enough for some forgiveness from mistakes. I would recommend that if you are brand new to this hobby to build the Boeing Starliner and Hubble Telescope before doing this one. Otherwise you will be building a Voyager 2 as well. Make sure you have a small metal molding set, regular needle nose pliers, round needle nose pliers and a set of tweezers before beginning. Also have a magnifier visor on hand as well. Happy modeling!

Looks a lot harder than it is but I also used the tools sold by Metal Earth. Also used magnets and hot glue to keep parts where they were meant to be until the assemblies were ready to be put together. It now sits on its own turntable. It draws attention.

This is a nice little model that is 21cm long and can be spray painted using black, gold and white spray cans (and red for the infrared instrument if you like). I had problems benfing the insert tabs as they have no bending marks like the ones that help in round objects like the dish. It would be great if they make laser bending marks on tabs. To solve this it is best to first bend tabs once and straighten them again before inserting them in place. If you mistankingly bend a side in the wrong side and have to straighten and bend to the other direction the part will brake! So no mistakes are allowed. I used crazy glue and calcium bicarbonate to hold some parts in place as I was not able to bend those tabs.If one part falls on the floor, as it is so tiny, I used a magnet and scrolled it all over the floor until it catches it. I displayed model on top of a base that I found at a dollar store using a tiny magnet as it is metal.

The only other Metal Earth model I built was a Millenial Falcon years ago. The Metal Earth website lists the difficulty rating of the Falcon I had as challenging. I don't recall having near the trouble with it I did with Voyager which has a moderate difficulty rating. I broke 3 parts, but was able to fix them with a little ingenuity and JB Weld. They were as follows: 1) There are 7 panels that fold over on the main body, then a lot of the other parts are folded and assembled. During this I flexed one of the panels too much and it broke. I never flexed it thru a large angle, but I guess I flexed it too many times thru a small angle. After that I placed a foam disc inside the body to prevent the rest from flexing until I put the bottom plate on that holds them. 2) The 2 wire-like antennas that come out at about a 45-degree angle are really delicate. 3) The optical calibration target & radiator panel that connects to one of the 4 triangular legs that come out the back. This was probably mostly my incompetence. In addition to the circular foam disc I recommend the following items to aid assembly: 1) Small rectangular or square neodymium magnets to hold some of the items in place while tabs are folded/twisted. 2) There are a few YouTube videos of people assembling a Voyager that are quite helpful, especially the part about bending the radioisotope thermoelectric generators into a semi-cylindrical shape before bending their support rails. 3) Metal Earth has a great 360 view of a completed model that I found helpful. There are a few spare parts on the sheets, but I wish Metal Earth had made some spare parts of other parts. If you're not experienced with Metal Earth models and you're not passionate about Voyager (which is the reason I got it), you may want to build some of the easier models first.

The model is a waste of money. The product is two thin metal sheets of which you must pop out each item. You need wire cutters to do this but, given the petite size of the items, and flimsy quality, pieces on the sheet easily bend as you try to get others out. Many of the microscopic pieces then require that you wrap them into a cylinder shape which is a feat in itself. Then, on many of the pieces you put a circular piece on the end of that which takes quite some time to get into place. While pushing the tabs into place on one of the larger circular pieces, the circular piece snapped making the item completely unusable now. If the pieces came ready to assemble, and were made of thicker metal, this product would be ok. As is, it essential goes from out of the box straight into the trash.

don’t buy this on amazon, google “metal earth” and buy from innovatoys instead. amazon will ship faster but it doesn’t matter because your sheets will arrived bent and damaged. that being said, i love metal earth! not for kids though as they can be very finicky to assemble. great gift for a geeky teenager or a fun little weekend project for yourself. it takes a very particular type of person to assemble this, if you are easily flustered by details, stay away. i recommend having a pair of nail clippers on hand to remove parts from the sheet, as well as tweezers to bend and handle pieces. keep your working parts in a tray or container of some kind so you don’t lose them, trust me. all in all fun for the right person and great value for the price in my opinion.

This model was so much fun to make! The details are very accurate and it was a really cool research project to look at old photos of the real thing so that I could paint it accurately. It's not usual to paint these, but I saw a couple other reviewers do it and I am extremely satisfied with the results! Metal Earth models aren't for everyone but if you have the dexterity for it, and tweezers and a few other tools then it's a really cool project which doesn't take up much space.

Easy to build, somewhat finicky to get all of the parts together. Looks really great. Good value for the build

Perfetto

O produto é muito bom. Representa perfeitamente a realidade

Ich hab das nicht bei Amazon, sondern beim Müller gekauft - deshalb steht da nicht "verifizierter Kauf". Es stehen da aber so viele Ein-Stern-Bewertungen, dass ich mich zur Rezension veranlasst fühle. Für rund 10-13 Euro ein wirklich erstklassiges und erstaunlich feindetailliertes Modell. Vollständig aus Metall. Allerdings (!) überhaupt nichts für Kinder oder Anfänger im Modellbau. Versierte Modellbauerfahrung und Feinwerkzeug ganz schwer von Vorteil. Weil es a.) mikroskopisch kleine Bauteile gibt, die gehalten, gefalten, geknickt oder auch Laschen durch Ösen geschoben werden müssen. Und dadurch b.) Kraft in den Fingern und Feingefühl gleichzeitig von Nöten sind. Sonst wird das nix. Also kleine Zangen, Pinzetten und Krokodilklemmen-Modellhalter. Die Fingerkuppen sind gerne mal zu groß - zumindest bei meinen Wurschtfingern. Kleber wird nicht zwangsweise gebraucht, ist aber in homöopathischen Mengen von Vorteil (es könnten erst falsch-, und dann nochmal geknickte Laschen abbrechen). Das Gros der Wenig-Stern-Bewertungen stammt ganz offensichtlich von Personen (schon auch am Rezensionstext erkennbar), die die notwendige Modellbau-Erfahrung noch nicht aufbringen konnten und dann ihre Enttäuschung zum Ausdruck brachten. Sie haben insofern auch nicht ganz unrecht, weil der Schwierigkeitsgrad nicht auf der Verpackung steht. Aber die Qualität eines Bausatzes sollte trotzdem nicht an den Fähigkeiten des Benutzers bewertet werden. Bei ambitionierter, erfahrener Herangehensweise mit dem richtigen Werkzeug entsteht ein wunderschönes Modell. Da wackelt auch nix.

Excelente figura para armar