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I'm almost as excited as you are

After my count there were 2 pieces missing.
But no big things, just a 1x3 plate in green and a 2x2 tile with 2 studs. I can borrow this from my kids..
I am not complaining however:
Other pieces i got too many of. I think its 15 pieces too much overall...

Started the build now!

Steam Engine completed:
The parts have a really good quality.
Only on one piece there was a big difference in color (light bluish gray) but thats it.

The building experience was awful to be honest:
Mostly because of some stability issues and wrong building order in my instruction. Its tricky. Because the platform is only holded up by 8 lift arms and I even had to remove 1 because I messed in planning. I forgot to put in 1 axle for a gearwheel and I only have a longer one currently so it blocks the position of the liftarm right now.

That brings me to the next topic: the mechanism has some flaws as well. Because of play in a liftarm-assembly, 1 gear is stuck blocking the whole mechanism. I removed said gear for now until i have a solution. Another thing was my planned rubberbands. The ones I ordered are too big and I cannot just wrap it around twice since I only have a narrow bushing for it so it only works for a couple of rotations before snapping off.
The connection between the "Generator" and the platform is unstable. The plattform can wiggle a little bit so the gears do not line up all the time. Need some reinforcement there too.

Main problem for the building experience is that if something comes loose underneath the platform - there are some annoying spots for sure - there is no way to get it back without ripping apart the whole thing.
The base for the platform liftarms are heavily integrated into the generator base and the "gear wall" so this has to go before you are able to disconnect the platform to turn it around. Happened on a regular basis. So I need to make the whole thing more rigid and/or make it more accessible.

Despite it sounds pretty negative I am happy so far. It looks as expected and its a nice display model.
All the issues are also within my expectations and I will deal with them before my next order.

But I wont provide a BOM and Instructions until I am satisfied.

Nice! Congrats on haviong you drawing materialize finally

This guy is also done:
And this build was a really nice experience. Only some really small things in the design that I will fix later on:
Sometimes I used 2 bricks next to each other that can be replaced with a single brick (eg 2 1x2 bricks next to each other --> replace with a single 2x2 brick).
This has 3 reasons:
1 - trial and error during the design process and then it slipped through when reviewing the instruction
2 - some parts were listed as "not existent" at the shop. But they only have some missmatch in specific bricks. They have it in stock but they use a different number in their system. After 2 or 3 models I realized this and I can get the parts. Thats why I only used 2 2x1 brackets next to each other because i thought they dont have the 2x2 ones.
3. And finally some parts I didnt know existed. Like a 1x5 plate - I cannot remember them from my childhood.
So I used 1x3 plus a 1x2 plate. This can be simplified now.

And yes, thats it! Otherwise a really sturdy brick. No mechanism, no moving parts. The Gobrick pieces hold together really well. I even threw the thing into the air and catched it again. Not a single piece fell off lol.