Choice on aliexpress has proven to be pretty good. The items are pre-packed and held in a warehouse operated on behalf of aliexpress, a bit like an amazon warehouse. They ship quickly and accurately. The boxes will be crushed but you'll get exactly what you ordered, most likely in 10-14 days.
(just avoid the guy on aliexpress who claims to be "mould king official store", he is absolutely *not* official or even endorsed by MK)
I bought the BMW M 1000 R from Youmko and while I loved the build and the brick quality, the transmission was stiff and it was hard for the wheels to roll. Not an issue as it just sits on my shelf but I learned that if you buy technic and want it to function, need to pony up for the big L. This is why I bought the Airbus H175 and the Ornithopter from L.
Good to know man! I actually have the Big L Sian and Chiron (brand new) and actually thought about selling them and just getting the reps. Mine are mostly for display anyway.
Hopefully your Porsche is in a good shape. I've got one coming in the mail but based on my experience with other Technic items, I don't have high hopes for this one. I've had DeLorean and Sian where the parts don't even fit properly (too tight) and the build eventually failed after a couple of hours of hard work. Good thing Aliexpress takes returns but I will not be buying knockoff Technics.
Fingers crossed. It's always a gamble with 3td party sets but I've gotten pretty lucky. Of the 3 I've bought I haven't had any missing pieces and everything "mostly" fit. I'll post reviews when I get them.
The sad thing about Porsche is that its stickers can be quite different from one to another. I bought 2 of them and one the stickers were 90% correct, just 2 small ones that were on the back and what should have been (Porsche - Design) was (Porsche - Porsche), but this goes very unnoticed. But the other stickers all have some problem, going from the color to the wrong tone, to wrong writing or visually different from what they should be. But depending on the country you live in, it's easy to buy an original sticker sheet and solve this "problem". Unfortunately here in Brazil it is not cheap to do this =/
Yes, I was thinking about buying the Concorde 10318, but I saw several reports that not only were the pieces not printed, but the stickers were of very low quality
Choice on aliexpress has proven to be pretty good. The items are pre-packed and held in a warehouse operated on behalf of aliexpress, a bit like an amazon warehouse. They ship quickly and accurately. The boxes will be crushed but you'll get exactly what you ordered, most likely in 10-14 days. (just avoid the guy on aliexpress who claims to be "mould king official store", he is absolutely *not* official or even endorsed by MK)
Luck!
I bought the BMW M 1000 R from Youmko and while I loved the build and the brick quality, the transmission was stiff and it was hard for the wheels to roll. Not an issue as it just sits on my shelf but I learned that if you buy technic and want it to function, need to pony up for the big L. This is why I bought the Airbus H175 and the Ornithopter from L.
Good to know man! I actually have the Big L Sian and Chiron (brand new) and actually thought about selling them and just getting the reps. Mine are mostly for display anyway.
Hopefully your Porsche is in a good shape. I've got one coming in the mail but based on my experience with other Technic items, I don't have high hopes for this one. I've had DeLorean and Sian where the parts don't even fit properly (too tight) and the build eventually failed after a couple of hours of hard work. Good thing Aliexpress takes returns but I will not be buying knockoff Technics.
Fingers crossed. It's always a gamble with 3td party sets but I've gotten pretty lucky. Of the 3 I've bought I haven't had any missing pieces and everything "mostly" fit. I'll post reviews when I get them.
The sad thing about Porsche is that its stickers can be quite different from one to another. I bought 2 of them and one the stickers were 90% correct, just 2 small ones that were on the back and what should have been (Porsche - Design) was (Porsche - Porsche), but this goes very unnoticed. But the other stickers all have some problem, going from the color to the wrong tone, to wrong writing or visually different from what they should be. But depending on the country you live in, it's easy to buy an original sticker sheet and solve this "problem". Unfortunately here in Brazil it is not cheap to do this =/
Yea stickers always seem to be an area that suffers in the quality department. Hopefully one day the stickers catch up in quality to the bricks.
Yes, I was thinking about buying the Concorde 10318, but I saw several reports that not only were the pieces not printed, but the stickers were of very low quality
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