After not being able to finish building the ornithopter yesterday I could barely wait until I was able to get back to it after work today. It didn't took that long to go through the remaining bags and I was able ro put it together just in time before I had ro leave to play some badminton with my wife and her friends.
I'm quite impressed with the model. The technics parts is a true marvel of LEGO engineering. The fact that the mechanism is rather well hidden inside the otherwise regular looking LEGO model is astonishing. And by regular I don't mean it's nothing spectacular in that sense either. It's a really nicely put together model overall.
While the part count might not be that impressive as some of the premium models it's still not a small one. I was actually surprised how big it turned out to be. Of course most of it is due to the quite impressive wingspan of it's eight wingblades that gives it the wingspan of nearly 80 centimeters. That's 20 centimeters more than the UCS Millenium Falcon which contains over 5 times more pieces!