Welll. I made it. I had to skip on the complete smoothing step.. but I figured it was ok since it was for a 9 year old kid. All and all I think it took about 80 hours to cut, glue, harden, and paint.
WOW!!! For 80 hours that's utterly amazing! You worked hard on that and it shows. For the amount of time you got it done in I would be angry if anyone even tried to criticize you for it. Fantastic work dude. Major props to you
I think what bkearney meant was that they built it for a 9 year old kid, not they themselves are 9 years old.
But it looks great! I am sad though, I didn't get to finish all of mine.