UGears Horse-Mechanoid - Wooden Mechanical Model - 410 Pieces

Description

Charlie + Wobbs
In the days before steam-powered engines and paved roads, horses had been the primary means of transportation for centuries. Maybe you love horses for their strength and majesty or perhaps you've long been a rider and want to create something uniquely related to your passion. Or it could be that you simply love the history of horses as a mode of transport. Whatever the reason you enjoy these tall, powerful, and nurturing creatures, you can't skip this entrancing, steampunk-inspired model kit.
The UGears Horse-Mechanoid pays tribute to a majestic animal by creating a fully functional model. Featuring extra support and anatomical correctness to ensure stability on the move, this model's innovative mechanisms are all created with sustainable, high-grade wood. Laser-cut precision ensures joints and movements that are very close to that of the real thing, and the gears, cranks, and rubber bands of the model work with gravity to give it its power.
In fact, this model is so realistic that its head even sways when it moves. In the chest, you'll find an oscillating pendulum that works as the horse's bionic heart. This heart transmits the rubber band's energy to create the movement you'll love in this model. Of course, UGears' traditional design means you get to see everything working inside the horse while it's on the move.
A tribute to Japanese and Chinese inventors, Ancient Greeks, Leonardo da Vinci, and other great minds of the past who tried to create walking machines, this gorgeous model horse stands tall, moves gracefully, and offers all the aesthetically pleasing elements you'd hope to find in a model. It even includes soft, flexible rubber bands for the mane and tail, which allows them to sway when the horse moves forward or shakes its head.
Like all other UGears kits, the Horse-Mechanoid comes with step-by-step, full-color, truly easy to follow instructions in 11 languages (English, German, Ukrainian, French, Polish, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, Italian, Chinese and Korean) and requires neither glue nor special tools to be fully assembled into a steady mechanical steed.
410 pieces, 13.8 x 11.4 x 4.7 inches when finished. Assembly time: ~9 hours. Recommended age: 14+
Ideal Christmas, birthday, or holiday gift for an engineer, hobbyist, or craftsperson. Great for a STEAM related gift too!
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Giving Back
At Charlie + Wobbs, trees are kinda our thing. Not only do trees provide the beautiful pieces of wood that goes into all of our products, but they also help provide the cardboard our boxes are made from, the paper packing material to keep everything safe during shipment, the cardstock our flyers are printed on, the paper towels used during production, and most importantly, the air we breathe just to be alive. We'd kinda be up a creek without a paddle, wooden or otherwise, without them. When properly managed, trees are an amazing and 100% renewable resource... really the ultimate renewable resource; products derived from them literally grow on trees! And to help preserve them Charlie + Wobbs pledges to donate one percent of the revenue of every order to non-profit organizations whose missions are sustainable forestry and mitigating the effects of climate change. This way we can help keep the forests of the world growing forward.