> > The basic shaping is estimated to have taken around 200 hours, and in total the recreation likely took more than 370 hours.

> Nearly a year of "full time" work at 40hrs/week went into this

Sorry, I think you may be mistaken? From the section you quote, it looks like it's about 370 hours, or 9 weeks of full time effort. That's still a lot, but certainly not nearly a year.