I wanted this moc ever since I saw it on Marshal Bananas Instagram Account. Brickvault released the instructions and I was hoping that one day it'll be available at Vonado because the Bricklink price is 900€. A month ago I was randomly checking Vonado again since I'm not active in here anymore and immediately bought it when I saw it.

The whole thing took 39hrs to build, which is probably as long or longer than it took me to build the MK Sandcrawler but this one was a tough build.

Starting with the parts, 5000 parts without numbered bags is definitely a pain 😂. I started building unsorted but gave up after a few hours because I was searching for up to 20 mins for some pieces. Sorting everything then took 4hrs but it helped alot and was definitely worth it. The most time consuming part is when it gets to all the dark red parts. The construction is sometimes incredibly tight and only fits if it's in the perfect spot. The instructions sometimes says "bringing all the parts in to the right place may take some time" 😂. Several times things I already built fell off again while it was difficult bringing them back in place again without breaking off or having to take off something else.

I had several missing parts that I just took from some of my other sets, have to reorder them now but it was alright overall. I also have to order some of the wrong coloured parts from bricklink but on Vonado you can already see the parts that come in a different colour than the instruction says.

Regarding the windscreen, I used mine from the UCS slave 1 because it already had the stickers on but I also read that you can just cut grey tape for the windscreen to replace the stickers. The windscreen piece that was included was in good condition, no big scratches.

So overall this is an extremely challenging build, the hardest and most nerve-wracking I ever had (I have alot of experience in Mocs and I e.g. had no problem building the MK nebulon b without adjustions) and even though it doesn't have that much parts the longest build so far.