Glittering Water Lily start

This is a nice build! It’s actually one of the kits people will be building in my meet up next April. I hope you enjoy the way!

I’ve made this one a few months back as a gift from my mum actually. It was a pretty straightforward build, as far as I can remember :slight_smile:
I do remember a couple of things that may work as tips for you, if I’m not too late that is:

  • There’s a point during the build when you need to move the string of lights (I remember it being some sort of long white “paper” with the lights on) through the main structure. I decided to cut the black tape (the one that’s used to hold it) in smaller parts, because the size prompted by the manual felt too big and “ugly” to my taste, and a smaller cut it’s more than enough to prevent it from moving
  • Take good care at exactly where and how to move that “paper of lights” through the holes, the manual may not be that 100% clear about it in explanations but it is in the images
  • Last but not least, by the last steps of the build there’s a plastic you’ll add that will give the water effect to the build. You need to add this before the water lillies, which translates in crafting the lillies and then fitting them through holes in that plastic then to holes in the ground underwater. Be careful here. This is the only step of the build where I found some struggles, because:
    • It’s kind of easy to break some of those thin stems (or the part of them that fit into the leaves)
    • If you’re not careful when fitting the stems to the ground through the water or you don’t hold them strongly enough, they could fall from your fingers into the water never to be recovered (or you would have to remove the lillies and the water plastic in order to rescue them)

Just some tips! It’s an easy, nice and quick build to say the least. Pretty satisfying imo.

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