dOvOb Architecture Eiffel Tower

After putting together a smaller project from this company I was really looking forward to this build. I figured out that if you take a picture of each page of the instructions with your tablet, it’s much easier to figure out what goes where as you can expand and brighten the picture. As I was building the base legs, the pieces did not stay connected to each other. It was very frustrating to be placing a piece from, say, Instruction Page 29, only to have pieces from Instruction Page 26 come loose. It just got too hard to do and ultimately i threw it in the trash. Very disappointing. Well, here I am back again. The above was attempt One of this set. A complete failure on my part. Several months went by and I decided to take another try ONLY THIS TIME WITH GLUE. Yes, this goes completely against the traditional building block types, but there was no way it was going work without glue. It didn’t work. I attempted to put it together with superglue and it’s just too unforgiving. After I got done with the base unit, it looked terrible. As I got several levels into the upper unit I applied too much pressure and it came flying apart. I wrote to the seller and asked for replacement pieces. They refunded my purchase which allowed me to buy a third set. This time I used a slow-setting plastics hobby glue and it made all the difference in the world. I just finished the build and couldn’t be more pleased. This is the thirteenth one of these micro sets I’ve done and this was undoubtedly the most enjoyable of them all… NOW, after my first attempt I was pretty pissed. One last thing… I wrote to the seller as asked for a digital copy of the instructions. They hooked me up and it was wonderful to build using my ipad.

As mentioned by others, this is not an easy build. All 3300+ pieces must be dumped at once and they are tiny. Building the legs gets tough due to lack of strength but once you add the first deck level it gets pretty well solidified. Don't work on it unless you are in a calm and focused mood but once it's together it's really cool! I love it. Be prepared to hate the solo piece I posted, there's over 700 of them to use!

I loved the end product and how it was so detailed, but the structure lacks sturdiness. I was building the bottom half of the Eiffel tower and an entire side came sliding down. I had to fix the entire thing. I was afraid to attach the top bit of the tower because i was afraid that the base might break.

Personally, I loved this and it looks amazing in my room completed. But I could definitely see why someone wouldn't be able to come close to finishing this. The pieces are tiny which makes it hard to work with but also look more detailed in the end. It's pretty tedious and challenging but that makes every piece more gratifying. Also the instructions aren't great, it just shows you pictures of a bunch of new pieces in place and you kind of have stare at it and use your brain to figure it out. The pieces feel good quality and the colors look good. I would recommend buying on of the other sets from dOvOb before the eiffel tower but if you're up for a challenge definitely go for this :)

I've assembled Lego or Lego-like models of the Taj Mahal, the Statue of Liberty, the Coliseum in Rome, the 10,000+ piece Lego Titanic and many others but I have NEVER been so frustrated with the poor design and awful instructions that make up this kit. I recognize that working with micro blocks can be difficult however, when you need a magnifying glass to read the instructions, there is a problem. The first half of the instructions are drawn so small they are almost impossible to understand but later on, the drawings get significantly bigger they can actually be understood. Is paper really that expensive? Yet, that's NOT the major flaw with this model. The designer's have no concept of structural integrity as they assemble the tower legs without arranging pieces that actually tie each leg together structurally. Pieces 'hang' on the structure, many supported by just one pin - Just brush very slightly against the pieces that have already been assembled and they fly apart. Virtually impossible to reconstruct without going back many steps and starting over. Read several other reviewers who stated they needed glue to keep it from falling apart while they built it....and I thought the whole idea of this type of kit was NOT to need glue. I can't tell what constructing the rest of the tower after the legs would be like since I trashed it before I got that far. Shame to waste the time and money but the aggravation???? UGH!

If you are looking for a challenging build, this may be a set for you. It took me two weeks of evenings to finish it, and it was really satisfying to get it done. You might want to get a bottle of plastic-model glue/cement for this build. There are several (you could also say "a lot of") places where the structure is fragile and needs some reinforcement (glue). I'm not complaining, I'm just suggesting that you have some glue handy. You also should have one of the concave-ended specialty tweezers for nano builds. You previously could get one here on Amazon, but they're not here any more. You can search for "nano block tweezers NB-019" on eBay and probably find one. The instructions are amazingly detailed and accurate. I didn't see any mistakes in the instructions. Enjoy your build!

The price was exceptional compared to Lego. Initially it was kinda frustrating to build. The pieces were much smaller than Lego, but we got over that. The instructions weren't amazing. Basically build from bottom to the top, no modular building. Overall, I could deal with it. But then we got to building the arches. It was some kind of heckish building technique that required you to build UNDER a previous piece in order to grow the arches. So any time you wanted to add pieces on top of it, you generally would break off your previous build. Aaaaand then it collapsed. I don't know whether it was the small size of the pieces, the way it was told for us to build (bottom up instead of modular), or if it was strictly the design (building supports UNDER ANOTHER PIECE). So frick this build/design in particular. VERY unsatisfied. I MAY buy a different type of product from this brand, but this experience was heck

Loved this project aloooottttt was definitely different with the micro pieces but all the pieces and plenty of extras were included. This took me around 10 hours to build so I hope uour ready 😄 🤣.