Fascinations USPS LLV Mail Truck 3D Metal Model Kit

This was my second Metal Earth kit, and I had a blast putting it together. I also cussed quite a bit, but that was part of the fun. Make sure you have a pair of very fine needle-nosed pliers, and some nylon-jaw parallel pliers wouldn't be a bad idea, too. My only complaint is that the printing is a little fuzzy, but from a foot away I don't even notice. Lots of fun, and I'll definitely be getting more kits. I would not suggest getting this for children, btw. Some of the parts are very small, with very sharp edges, and the dexterity required is too high for many adults, never mind kids.

If you have done many of these models before, this one is pretty simple but has some very hard curves on the roof and nose piece. Not good for a first model in the Metal Earth series but it turned out looking very accurate for me.

This is probably my dozenth Metal Earth kit and while not the most challenging, it does have the weakest instructions and engineering. Unusual for these models, the instructions are poorly ordered for certain steps, requiring you to undo tabs and disassemble components. Even then, the overall fitment is lacking compared to most of their other models that I’ve assembled. I was able to make everything work in the end, and mine actually came out looking significantly cleaner and better assembled than the photos on the packaging and website (seriously, why is the display model so poorly assembled??!), but overall this was a more frustrating build from Metal Earth. I would NOT recommend this as anyone’s first foray into this style of model building. But if you’ve done a few of these, you can get a good result with this one, just expect a lot more improvisation to get there.

I love these kits this was my 6th build. Just make Sure u have tools for the kits!

I have assembled many of these metal models and some are so much more fragile than other ones. This is a very fragile one. I had to buy a second one of these in order to accomplish completing one item. There are several pieces that are so very thin and they break very easily. I got this as a gift for my Posty Person. I was quite annoyed at how fragile the pieces were, but once I got the second one, I was extremely careful with the assembly. There are some very small pieces as well, so great care is needed in order to assemble this correctly and look good also. My Posty Person Loved It!!!! She has been delivering our mail for over 18 years. It did turn out very nicely.

The instructions are easy to follow. The parts are cut accurately, and it's always clear what you have to do with each part. It's nice that they include some duplicates of the very smallest or most difficult parts. It's not as simple as just putting the pieces together. You have to do a lot of shaping. Some of the parts are really hard to bend nicely. A few, like the outside of the wheels, bend into a nice curve around a pen's diameter, but others require some frustrating tweezer gymnastics. Sometimes, if you fail to shape a part nicely, it messes up the occlusion and now the tabs won't go into their corresponding slots. I recommend this kit for people who understand the challenge of twisting around and bending lots of little metal parts. It is a very cute and realistic mail truck.

Looks nice and was fun to build. My 8 yo loved it. A bit smaller than I thought it would be.

Too complicated to assemble. I threw it in the trash.