What are you building right now?

Bumblepants

Had time to cobble enough bits on this previously abandoned project to get Pinket Street ready to take to Brick Fiesta. Awards and prestige to follow no doubt!

Recce

VorpalRyu said:

@Recce, relax, I wouldn't worry too much about it, even if you had a million Lego elements, you probably wouldn't have anywhere close to a quarter of all that Lego have made in the way of sets & there are probably a fair number people in that club. I've probably got just over 200,000 Lego elements myself & while I would be curious to see what big sets like Ninjago City, etc, that I could build with my existing pieces, I can't bring myself to dismantle some of the sets I know I'd need bits from. Got to give you props for taking a shot at it, especially with the fact you're working from pictures, not a copy of the instructions, that alone makes your effort pretty impressive. :)

Thanks! I will generally take parts from small sets, and sets from themes like City, TMNT, Chima etc. I'm not going to open my Deathstar or Sydney Opera House just to get a few pieces. :) 

Also will get from my boy's opened Hero factory sets which are now all dumped in storage boxes at different stages of disassembly. 

May also get from my girl's Friends sets that are fully assembled, but will replace with similar parts or parts of different colour. :) 

Recce

Bumblepants said:

Had time to cobble enough bits on this previously abandoned project to get Pinket Street ready to take to Brick Fiesta. Awards and prestige to follow no doubt!

Nice pink! I did a couple of other colour variations last year :) 

FowlerBricks

stlux said:

Mini #30449 The Milano next to it's #76021 big brother from 2014:

Clever use of Dimensions pads.

sid3windr

Started on Firehouse HQ with my little girl as school didn't bother filling the last half day of the school year. Bag set 2 out of 14 is done, phew. :-)

DeeC2_Josh

I had a lot of Speed Champions sets and needed a more space efficient solution for display. I'm happy I had just enough dark grey to finish it, for now..

SumoLego

^ Huh, I must have missed the scene where Dr. Strange joined the Guardians of the Galaxy.

DeeC2_Josh

Anything is possible with help from cannabis lol

gmonkey76

^Wonder if stormtroopers are better at hitting stuff with a car than with a blaster?

DeeC2_Josh

^ They don't fit the best in the Speed champions sets but I love the look, especially in the Scuderia Ferrari.

SumoLego

Now, to dig Daphne and Velma out of the Mystery Mansion...

HugeYellowBrick

Saturn V, Brick Bank, and modifying Assembly Square. I really need to be more disciplined.

Onebricktoomany

^^ is that a hobby lobby display case?

SumoLego

Yes - it's one manufactured by Pioneer Plastics.  

(I forget what size it is, but I have a slightly smaller one that is full of Ninja Turtles.)

In the 'How do you display minifigures' thread, I use the display cases for the toy tractor trailers for CMF collections.

legobod

Daiso Japan have $4/$5 display cases like that.

Tracked down all the pieces for the Black monarch's ghost set at my mother's house, I have something to add to it when I get home though...

JooTog

Onebricktoomany said:

^^ is that a hobby lobby display case?

I believe is the one on the top.

Onebricktoomany

 It looks great!  Photographs well also.  Thank you all.

Rsa33

Baronsat's Throne Room

JooTog

I seriously lack any kind of decent MOC skills, and I cannot make BrickHeadz hair to save my life.

Sooo... here is a kodama from Princess Mononoke ;-)

FowlerBricks

DeeC2_Josh said:

I had a lot of Speed Champions sets and needed a more space efficient solution for display. I'm happy I had just enough dark grey to finish it, for now..

Stormtroopers as car drivers. Hopefully they are better at driving then shooting...

FowlerBricks

Here's what I've been building:
Minecraft Brickheadz! 

FowlerBricks

And some LOTR Brickheadz:

Rsa33

Cont'd

MaffyD

Very minimalistic recolour of the Rebels A Wing from the Star Wars magazine, now in its 'proper' Star Wars VI livery:

MrJackson

Began my layout. Figured I'd take advantage of double points to get more of what I needed for sidewalks, buildings, etc.

SumoLego

Yo, dude - laundry first, Lego later!

CaptainRogers

SumoLego said:

Yo, dude - laundry first, Lego later!

Wow, spoken like a true non-Lego nerd. Don't you know blocks supersede most anything?!?

khmellymel

Yes but... is that a vacuum next to the Lego?  Not gonna lie, that makes me a bit nervous.

SumoLego

CaptainRogers said:

SumoLego said:

Yo, dude - laundry first, Lego later!

Wow, spoken like a true non-Lego nerd. Don't you know blocks supersede most anything?!?

Actually, that was a self-serving statement.  If the laundry is done, it's out of the designated Lego area.  I took the extra step and moved the washer/dryer out of the basement so no one has any reason to be in meaningful proximity.

SprinkleOtter

SumoLego said:

Yo, dude - laundry first, Lego later!

And get that bag to the Tailor!

(wait, they still exist?)

SumoLego

SprinkleOtter said:

SumoLego said:

Yo, dude - laundry first, Lego later!

And get that bag to the Tailor!

(wait, they still exist?)

I see I'm not the only one that is fascinated with the background minutae.  (Sometimes I find it more interesting than the actual subject matter.)

CaptainRogers

SumoLego said:

CaptainRogers said:

SumoLego said:

Yo, dude - laundry first, Lego later!

Wow, spoken like a true non-Lego nerd. Don't you know blocks supersede most anything?!?

Actually, that was a self-serving statement.  If the laundry is done, it's out of the designated Lego area.  I took the extra step and moved the washer/dryer out of the basement so no one has any reason to be in meaningful proximity.

Good thinking there. So the optimal solution is to have roommate/partner/kid/ANYONE ELSE do the laundry to have more building space. I like it.

Side note, I look forward to having that kind of space eventually. I'm about to go from working fast food to going through Edward Jones' financial advisor career development program and then will set up shop mid-next year as a financial advisor. Just the idea of being able to afford my own place, have a designated building area other than my bed, etc is quite exciting.

MrJackson

Glad I can provide entertainment. Much of the stuff on those shelves has been there untouched since we moved in two and a half years ago. My point that I'm trying to make to my wife when she comes home Thursday is that once Brickadelphia is fully built, all of the boxes of broken down and bagged non-city sets will be stored within the table under it, and that for as much as I'm getting hounded at from all directions about "all my Legos being everywhere", they really don't take up all that much room compared to the shelves upon shelves of stuff in the basement, not including all the background minute of which literally none is mine. Also, I want to get this laid out and built before I lose any more square footage - like, we don't need to build a coat closet in that corner where the shelves with food are. Hopefully this can get the ball on some late spring cleaning rolling. 

CaptainRogers

This is my Corner Deli modular MOC so far.

Btw @SumoLego  - more background minutiae  goodness!

SumoLego

I pity the fool that keeps Mr. T from eating at the Deli!!!

CaptainRogers

Includes assembly area, shake machine, and hood vents above the grill. Yup, I've worked food service myself for a while now.

Rsa33

Nearly finished, one piece missing for big gun up top sadly.  However, super fun build!

MaffyD

khmellymel said:

Yes but... is that a vacuum next to the Lego?  Not gonna lie, that makes me a bit nervous.

No, it's ok. As long as the vacuum is used ONLY for lego hoovering and nothing else you're actually being efficient!

Just as long as it's bagless... or maybe better if it's bagged actually? Lego World Problems...

Bumblepants

Finished converting a pair of Roxxon airport fuel truck sets into tanker cars tonight. And yes, the explosion feature still works.

SumoLego

^ Dammit!  Now I gotta go buy a bunch more of those sets.  I would never have thought to do that!

sid3windr

Those do look great... :o

Yodalicious

SumoLego said:

CaptainRogers said:

SumoLego said:

Yo, dude - laundry first, Lego later!

Wow, spoken like a true non-Lego nerd. Don't you know blocks supersede most anything?!?

Actually, that was a self-serving statement.  If the laundry is done, it's out of the designated Lego area.  I took the extra step and moved the washer/dryer out of the basement so no one has any reason to be in meaningful proximity.

Lord Business, is that you?

Bumblepants

SumoLego said:

^ Dammit!  Now I gotta go buy a bunch more of those sets.  I would never have thought to do that!

You did buy one of those two actually...

Speedman29

Built the 40th anniversary Technic chassis from three sets recently. While sorting the pieces from the BMW Bike #42063 I suddenly realised that I wanted to build it as well. Bit of time on Bricklink and I managed to get all the parts used on the chassis from a seller in Germany for £25. Arrived today, so going to start building it later.

LuLego

Can anyone give me an estimated build time for 76023 Tumbler? Thanks.

SprinkleOtter

^

1 min < build <1 year

SumoLego

Yodalicious said:

SumoLego said:

Actually, that was a self-serving statement.  If the laundry is done, it's out of the designated Lego area.  I took the extra step and moved the washer/dryer out of the basement so no one has any reason to be in meaningful proximity.

Lord Business, is that you?

No, I'm the 'Man Upstairs'.

(Nobody wants to do dishes, but for goodness sake, just do the dishes and switch the laundry!)

MissKittyFantastico

A recent interview with Eddie Izzard gave me the idea to finally do something about that droid maintenance bay I'd never found very interesting in the Death Star:



The weird thingy behind the left side of the counter is my attempt (with just whatever parts were quick to find) at a COO chef droid, as seen in Ep2 - he's only got five arms at the moment, I'll fix that whenever one more grey droid arm turns up.  The little Emperor hologram is from the Super Star Destroyer, I imagine here it's just a broadcast on Empire News or whatever.  The lift mechanism got flipped around to make room, so the knob is behind the turbolasers now, with a grey tile on the end so it blends in.

77ncaachamps

Going to build some of my Architecture sets (Louvre, Buckingham, and Eiffel). Finished The White House and am hooked. No MOCs yet but I saw this link on FB and feel inspired.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/07/architecture/waf-world-building-of-the-year-2017-shortlist-revealed/index.html?sr=twCNN070717waf-world-building-of-the-year-2017-shortlist-revealed0445PMStoryGal

Thoughtsonblocks

Just finished building my #10255 Assembly Square.  I started clearing some space in my city layout, pulling up the park display I built and now can start deconstructing the base of Assembly Square to get it moved onto my base plates for the city: