Dacapo Spends a Saturday Handcam Stream Assembling a Rolife Miniature Instrument Shop

ALGORHYTHM PROJECT — Dacapo of Algorhythm Project spent more than three and a half hours on Saturday assembling a Rolife miniature kit on a handcam stream, with the camera trained on his hands. The kit builds a small wooden model of a musical-instrument shop, and he talked through it in Thai as he went.

He began by laying out the contents: numbered sheets of wooden pieces, sandpaper and double-sided tape. He also held up larger kits he had built before, saying some had taken him more than 10 hours, and called this one small by comparison.

“Don’t question it. They may have designed it that way.” — Dacapo, on an odd-looking step in the instructions

The early pieces were thin, and he said a light touch was enough to snap them. He told viewers not to grip a piece by its sides while pushing on it, but to brace the spot with a finger so it would not break. He also painted a small part yellow and waited for it to dry, and he cut and bent a short length of wire to a length of about six millimeters after working out what the instructions asked for. One step had him spread glue across the middle of a piece; he doubted it at first, then said it worked.

By about two hours and ten minutes in, he said he thought he was past the halfway mark. Partway through the evening a music copyright notice hit his background track, and he switched to a free one, saying that he normally prefers to build in silence. In the closing stretch he put together the front columns and a staircase, layer by layer.