Fascinations Metal Earth Sydney Opera House Building 3D Metal Model Kit

Highly detail, very fun but it is a challenge, I have a large collection of these buildings but this one was truly fun.

Great price - received on time. Have not been able to assemble yet due to medical issues. My wife visited this famous site and I wanted to assemble it for her display cabinet. I'm sure it will be as fine as the other Metal Earth kits I have assembled, such as Notre Dame, Eiffel Tower, Golden Gate Bridge, etc. The detail on these kits is highly intricate, and patience is required, along with ensuring you have the proper tools for assembly. But the outcome of the extreme visual detail is highly admired by all viewers.

I love all Metal Earth 3d models from the simple to the challenging. The Sydney Opera house is mostly challenging at the folded connection between the reverse curved elements. You definitely need to view the 360 model on the website to get the right "spread" for this piece in order to get the tabs to meet the right spots. Only reason for one less star is instructions and shipping. Sometimes the instructions aren't clear about inserting tabs from "inside" or "outside" the connection which is a HUGE difference. Shipping is about the packaging. I have received many of these Metal Earth models in a simple bubbled envelope which is not good. Most of the time they arrive slightly bent since it is very thin sheet metal. Even one time it was shipped in a box, but there was not enough "padding" to keep it from bouncing around and, therefore, getting bent. Some of the bent ones I was able to "fix" and others I simply re-ordered since it wouldn't be worth my time to replace. Overall, these are a tone of fun to build and require a ton of patience...:-)

This type of metal kits need patience but are very rewarding. I liked it and, the final product is beautiful and assembling it is very entertaining. You may want to have a magnifying glass and a tweezer handy!

This metal model is the poorest design of the dozen or so i've worked on from Metal Earth. 1st) the pieces are called out numerically, but the sheet letter is left off. workable, just lazy. 2nd) Directions are severely lacking. Several metal bends, twist/bend directions, and critical notes are left out. images are lacking too. I ended up with a huge gap between the ends of assembled parts a and b and the holes in the base where they were supposed to attach and then broke it trying to finagle it in the last moments. I ordered another model to play with to see if i can elongate those connections and see what went wrong. i had planned to give the assembled model as a Christmas gift to my Australian Stepdad, but not if it's low quality.

These are so cool! This is the most complicated one we have seen. Many are much easier to work with. This is super cool though and a lot of work to put it together. For a beginner I would recommend a less complex one, but this one is very cool.

I've loved every Metal Earth Model that I've built, but this is the only one that I've had trouble putting together. The peaks are really tough to attach to the base. It's very tight. In fact, I had to throw away the first model because some of the pieces broke. After learning some things and buying another one, I got it to work out. It's awesome, but be careful.

After reading the other reviews, I was somewhat reluctant to try tis one. But after assembling many other Metal Earth models and due to the fact that I love a challenge I decided to give it a try. It was somewhat tricky getting some of the parts together, but with a little patience it went together well. I definitely recommend a set of mini needle nose pliers like the ones at Harbor Freight for assembling these models. Other reviewers who claim the parts don't fit must not have had the patience to tweak the bends. I strongly recommend looking at photos of the real Sydney Opera house for guidance. I did and mine turned out better than the one on the Metal Earth package!