Mould King 10130 V8 Engine Building Blocks Set, Combustion Engine Model That Runs, Mini Twin-Turbo Engine Build Kit for Adults with Battery, Engineering Construction STEM Toy (2718 PCS)

The media could not be loaded. I received this Mould King V8 engine kit for my Birthday, I have to say it's been an absolute pleasure to make, All the pieces are engineered to a very high standard, Every single piece of the 2,718 pieces were in the box !, The instruction book excellent and easy enough to follow although hard enough to be a challenge. 5 STARS 👏👏

Like Lego on steroidsWow, this is a huge kit. I knew it would be complicated, but when you lay those 2718 pieces on the table, you break into a sweat! Fortunately they come bagged into smaller packs which makes it a lot easier to work through as you go. Unfortunately, unless you open every bag and count the parts (and then carefully re-bag and seal them), that means that it may be some time before you discover that you’re missing parts.Based on what I’ve built so far I’d say that the parts all fit together really very well with no whittling or anything. The instruction booklet is at times hard to follow, requiring a lot of reading ahead to understand what’s needed, then backtracking to where you’re stuck, but then I didn’t expect something of this complexity to be easy. That’s part of the challenge.Unfortunately so far (page 51) I’ve been two parts short already. On the Mould King website, unless you buy direct from Mould King you can’t get missing parts sent out to you, whether you can supply a receipt of sale or not. Instead you have to go to the seller of the item, and if they’re an authorized stockist they should be able to replace them. Given that in this case, the seller is in Guangdongsheng, China (on Amazon UK they call their storefront ‘Sendetoys’, but further down the page they identify their business name as ‘Jieyangshisendedianzishangwuyouxiangongsi’) I’m worried that this may fall at the first hurdle; that of language. I guess we’ll see.In my experience of kit-building, given the price of this kit and the sheer number of parts here, there’s obviously going to be parts missing and the manufacturer knows it. They know it. Which is why I really can’t believe that Mould King won’t provide a replacement part service! And this *is* a choice; they’re making their excuses, but the simple fact is that they’re *choosing* not to provide after-sales care for their own mistakes in a kit that they want over £100 for. There is no excuse, at this price.It’s a pity, because it means that I myself would never buy one of these as a gift, which is very much where this type of thing would find a niche. These are incredible kits, with every part of the engine moving as it should. They’re not only fascinating to make, they’re actually rather educational as well. As I said, these are like the Lego Techic sets on steroids; Lego sets are great, but they still look like Lego; this looks like the real thing (colours aside), and the intricacy of the build is so therapeutic. You can’t rush through it, you have to take your time and get it right. You have to think and figure out. Once you have figured out what goes where (and at times that takes some doing, with these instructions), the accuracy of the parts in terms of assembly is impressive. Everything fits perfectly.This is something that’s going to give a person who loves this kind of precise and methodological mechanical assembly literally months of satisfaction…as long as they don’t run into missing parts.So…difficult to give this one a star rating, as the product itself is fantastic, but it’s completely dependent on all 2,718 tiny parts being present, because if even one part is missing, it could be the difference between an absolute joy to work on and a pointless, broken, and very, *very* expensive pile of plastic. I really want to give this kit five stars--I really do--but based on the after-sales service I can’t give it more than three stars. Had Mould King offered a missing parts replacement service, it would have been five stars and a glowing review. Without that service, this is an expensive paperweight.

For the money I am very disappointed had a few bits missing lucky another they were not major parts

I purchased this through eBay as it was offered at better price at the time. It was challenging to build , I needed to study some of the diagrams very closely & remake some section several times to assemble them correctly - Excellent.The kit was let down by missing parts, I completed to page 45 of 194 & there were three missing parts, the last being a gearwheel which was crucial.Unlike Lego, Mould King do not offer a parts replacement service unless you purchase from them & then its only once pre kit.I'm returning the kit for a refund

Built it in a day, went as far as timing it too, all looking good.Pushed a pin in accidentally while connecting the motor, crankshaft ripped apart an piston heads went everywhere. Needs full rebuild.10/10 very authentic experience.

Although I was somewhat apprehensive to move away from Technical Lego I needn't have worried. All the parts were there and the quality of manufacture seemed excellent. If anything there are more custom parts than Lego. Instructions maybe not quite so clear but still adequate. I guess the only disappointment was that there were no piston liners and the pistons were just running inside four strip bricks, one at each corner.