7733 – truck and forklift
Alexander’s project for the past four days has been the construction of set 7733, the cargo truck and forklift. A really attractive model including a functioning forklift and a couple of palettes with some strange payloads. Stuff the FBI would potentially worry about.
It’s a demanding build for little hands, but the advantage of this set is the separation of the various parts of the model into four distinct packages: the forklift, truck, container and trailer. Each is just complex and demanding enough for 30 minutes of building. In the grander scheme of things, this means being able to spread the building work over a couple of days with the promise of play after each construction period and the provision of something to look forward to the next day.
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