It's the long ship with big guns on either side and on top, that you find my looking in the gallery for 'space patrol'.
I spent a long time checking and re-checking that it should produce a solid useable model, and I was making fine corrections up until the day I ordered it.
530 pieces! It's a big set, it cost me nearly £100, but I'm really, really pleased with it. The quality of printing on the box is fantastic and looks better than you can appreciate from the design screen.
It actually only just fit into the box, so unless they do bigger boxes I would consider restricting sets to at least less than 700 pieces or they might have to ship it in two boxes.
The pieces also come in one huge bag with a picking list. So it's harder to build than a normal set, you have to spend some time sorting out the pieces.
I had a great time building it, with my 4 year old daughter (She loves space ships) and the finished model was fantastic, my 11 year old nephew says HE wants to order it too!
What I might do - is get my nephew my smaller less expensive set for christmas. The one I am documenting the build of here.
Overall, I am reallly pleased with the service, and the quality of the set. I would say though - if you are ordering, spend lots of time checking and re-checking the set by going through the building instructions online and making sure it will fit together and form a solid model. If you don't - you could end up with an expensive lego set that falls apart in your hands!
Thankfully, I hadn't made any errors and it formed a really solid, functional set - the only weak point being the guns falling off at the slightest knock, but I kind of expected that so...
A few more pictures of the smaller model that I might order my nephew for Christmas:-
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