Having offered to assist with anything else that needed doing, I have recently received a travelling dock crane from Splash to build for the cause.
The parts were in a reasonable condition - well, far better than both the pub and the windmill if I am honest, but there was still a fair amount of clean up
A couple hours on Saturday evening had some clean up done and the legs and part of cabin glued together.
Followed on Sunday by a sloshing of paint - being grey plastic I got away with one coat and a few touch ups.
This next picture was Monday tea time, when I had the jib front and back bits on and the windows fixed in with what was obviously a suitable adhesive as they have stuck
(PVA before you ask Shaun!)
I have also got a couple lengths of thin string/thick cotton painted with silver and in process of drying, to use as the "steel cable". Having read the instructions and cut a length of thread, I then looked at picture on instructions, and found they describe something very different for rigging it... so I shall do something totally different again. (Start with thread inside, drill a hole to take it out back end, round roller and up to other roller on front jib, back down through another hole I will make to get back into cabin, round other roller in cabin, and then repeat that again, and when I get to end of long jib second time, take it down for 10-12cm fix on the hook, then bring it back up and complete loop and tie all my ends off inside the cab. (that's my plan so far!!)