What are you building right now?

OrmskirkBricks

Well I needed a quick fix so delved into my backlog and got this built!
 

TheFew

Done..

eMJeeNL

Working on a little diorama for the chapel for my City...:

TheFew

JK Brickworks clockwork heart...

TheFew

JK Brickworks Orrery... That's enought building for this month!

TheOriginalSimonB

Time to crack the seals...

TheFew

TheOriginalSimonB said:

Time to crack the seals...

I have let the Mrs build this. A month in she is still only half way through!

Fizyx

TheFew said:

JK Brickworks Orrery... That's enought building for this month!

Oh man, I would kill for an official model orrery, although the number of pieces it would take for more than one planet probably makes that impossible..  That one looks pretty awesome, I might have to look into doing it myself...

TheFew

Fizyx said:

TheFew said:

JK Brickworks Orrery... That's enought building for this month!

Oh man, I would kill for an official model orrery, although the number of pieces it would take for more than one planet probably makes that impossible..  That one looks pretty awesome, I might have to look into doing it myself...

This one was a fairly simple model to bricklink. Nothing too expensive in there.

SamJ

A few sets I've built over the past few days. I dismantled most of my sets when I moved house, now I get to enjoy building them again! 

Speedman29

Snowy and wet outside this weekend. So Little Miss Speedman and I broke out the track and built this layout. Nevilles the hamster got a birdseye view and she seemed to enjoy it.

Then today it was decided that the cargo train needed a caboose/brakevan/little brown wagon. So we emptied lots of LEGO onto the bed and started building. We needed a motor for the Winter train over Christmas and as LEGO seemed to have zero stock and no restock dates for the £15 piece we picked up the front of the High Speed Train for £22 on eBay. This left the wheels and a few other pieces to make a chassis for the caboose and then we raided the brown pile of parts to make this.

Everyone was happy and its now attached to the back of the line.

Now on eBay picking up some more magnetic couplers and a boogie to attach to the train base and boogie that is left over from the HS train. Hopefully a new wagon will be added to the growing train for a random piece of cargo.

Madzoos_LEGO

This weekend I finished bag 2 of carousel #10257. I don't think I'll ever want to build anything round again.  I kept pushing too hard and collapsing parts of it.  I think I finally have it stabilized. The carousel goes around when I turn the handle, so I'm leaving it at that.  

TheOriginalSimonB

Ok, so the seats were a bit tedious and I still think the shaping at the front could be better, but I did enjoy putting this together.

Addicted2Oxygen

Having fun freestyle building a complete carbon freezing chamber from 3 #75137 sets.

snowhitie

Fun little build, perfect to end a crappy day (with thanks to @bandit778 - the build not the crappy day).

gratefulnat

@snowhitie - sorry to hear about the crappy day - sending psychic sunshine (sure isn't any real sunshine around right now)

Last week I received my first big LEGO container for this year


Contents not supporting any clone companies from here:


and it was quite a party this weekend at my place

Fizyx

gratefulnat said:

@snowhitie - sorry to hear about the crappy day - sending psychic sunshine (sure isn't any real sunshine around right now)

Last week I received my first big LEGO container for this year

and it was quite a party this weekend at my place

You would think I would be used to it by now, but the size of the larger Technic vehicles is always about 3 times larger than I expect.  I probably won't get the Mack Anthem unless I can find it like %60 off (way too many other new sets on my list to put another $180 dollar one on it too ;_; ) but that looks really good.

I especially like the party scene that you've set up too.  Looks like a good way to spend a Monday.  Much better than how I spent mine, at least! :)

jedijason1138

The first time I saw a picture of the Bat-Shuttle, I just had to have it. I picked it up yesterday and wasn't disappointed. It's a fun build, good mini figure selection and accessories and the extra vehicles are a bonus(Bat Kayak)!

Game_on

I started working on the Detectives office a couple weeks ago. 

Building time has been limited so I just started the third floor a couple days ago.

I'm hoping that I'll be able to wrap it up this upcoming weekend. 

Bowie1979

Just finished putting the Lego Batman Movie Scuttler together!

snowhitie

More Ninjago movie building, its high time I see the film, couple more weeks till dvd comes out though.

TheFew

Building up my monofigure collection with thanks from @floridabrick

ecmo47

First time out of the box in two years. Nerve-racking' as ever! Getting ready for North Carolina LUG's Legopalooza this weekend at the UNC Planetarium.

CaptainLego

McLaren F1 LM

kbw

Finally got some time to continue and finished bag 1 last night. Got up early and started bag 2. This may seem odd, but this is going *faster* than I thought. The bags, so far, seem a little more intuitively packed than usual so I haven't had to spend as much time sorting pieces. I don't know that makes sense or not, but it seems that way to me

kbw

^Now that I think about, there's just less variety of pieces than I'm used to seeing in the bags - a lot of the same stuff - so they are easier to find and less to sort imo. That may change

Speedman29

After the caboose/brake van build from the weekend, Little Miss Speedman decided she wanted another wagon, one with a cool cargo. A trip to Leicester Sq store got me the City LSR car, the perfect thing to transport on the railway!

The base and one boogie came from the HS train loco we bought for the motor, the rest from my unsorted pile of random pieces. Its pretty secure on there as the tail is supported on a mudguard piece. I've had to borrow a boogie from another wagon while we wait for an eBay delivery.

The other build that was requested was a car for the Fat Controller, she watches a lot of Thomas the Tank Engine and has seen the big guy driving a car on the rails to inspect things. Theres o way I can fit a motor in anything that small, so its a push along. Secret Santa bought me #75880 which I already had, but I've seen some cool MOCs based on it, so after a hunt around I got the instructions to Keep_on_bricking's Truck and modified it to suit.

All the parts with the exception of the train wheels and hinges came from the set. With two folds its up on the tracks and wheeling around, it can get across the points with no problems.

jedijason1138

This is a project I'm currently attempting. Now that I've built the big Falcon, I'm more likely to customize one of the smaller ones. I've already extended one of the mandibles and now I'm working on the cockpit.

sweetness34

Just got around to building the Jokers Manor. Great build, love the roller coaster. 

MaffyD

ecmo47 said:

First time out of the box in two years. Nerve-racking' as ever! Getting ready for North Carolina LUG's Legopalooza this weekend at the UNC Planetarium.

That’s some serious yellowing you’ve got there... :-)

ecmo47

^Bad lighting and an old camera!

piratemania7

sweetness34 said:

Just got around to building the Jokers Manor. Great build, love the roller coaster. 

and love the Joker : )

kbw

Bag 2 is toast

kbw

Bag 3 is done. Haven't started 4 but couldn't resist opening it up so I could get at those 2 handsome devils on the left. 

kbw

Bag 4 

snowhitie

Could I make another call for people to put low resolution pictures on the forums?

Love looking at all these pics but loading is getting difficult again. Feel free to add a hyperlink to a Flickr on the picture if you want, but please resize a bit.

gratefulnat

snowhitie said:

Love looking at all these pics but loading is getting difficult again. Feel free to add a hyperlink to a Flickr on the picture if you want, but please resize a bit.

Couldn't agree more, and I have great broad band.

If you prefer to use something a little less 'social media like' than Flickr, try Bricksafe
It's free, well run, and easy to use.
Just create your account, create a folder, upload your pics with drop & drag, click on the 'view 800x600' size, copy & paste the url into 'insert image' here when posting, and there you have it.

I took this 2 minutes ago:

(looks great, but was absolutely crap to build!!)

ecmo47

Two AT-AT's up a two once! Another LUG member just finished his yesterday so we're able to display today.

Lego_Lord_Mayorca

Working on a spaceship. Not the Benny variety. Think more like a smuggler/cargo hauler-type craft. Mostly black, dark and light bley, with smatterings of neon baby blue. I'll share pictures when it is complete.

Game_on

Wrapped up the Detectives Office (10246) last night. 

Super pleased with the build.  I left it on the kitchen table for my kids to see when they woke up.  They were definitely surprised to see it in the morning. 

Though, after looking over the entire set, my youngest looked at me with a little bit of a sad look on her face and asked,"How come we didn't get to build this one with you daddy?"

I had no answer, but I did promise that I would let them build with mo on the next set. 

datsunrobbie

Game_on said:

Wrapped up the Detectives Office (10246) last night. 

Super pleased with the build.  I left it on the kitchen table for my kids to see when they woke up.  They were definitely surprised to see it in the morning. 

Though, after looking over the entire set, my youngest looked at me with a little bit of a sad look on her face and asked,"How come we didn't get to build this one with you daddy?"

I had no answer, but I did promise that I would let them build with mo on the next set. 

I know brickheadz are a whole lot smaller, but my grandson mentioned just yesterday that he wanted to build the Hulk that I had built. I took it apart and we had great fun building it again. That's part of why I got back into LEGO, because you can build the same set more than once.

bandit778

Finally got all the pieces to finish my Winter Train modification.

The Tree trailer has stayed much the same since the first build - it worked so why fix it? :)

The Passenger Dining Car was stretched so that I had the room to turn the tables lengthways so passengers don't have to climb over each others diner table when moving about the car (possibly taking the minifigures welfare a bit too seriously come to think of it).

The Coal Tender has been Raised and stretched so I can hide the battery box from view. I also added the front magnet piece as the hook that came with the original looked a bit naff to be honest.

And finally, this thing has been taken apart and rebuilt so many times it should know how to build itself.

But, after all the pulling apart and rebuilding, I now have a train that I'm happy with.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you the 3143rd version of my  Winter Train. :)

milamber

I did similar with my tender, but adapted it so the motorised wheels went on that, plus hid all the electrics in it too, with a top and some 'coal'. It looks much better than having wires from the train to the tender, plus you can put the engine driver back where he is supposed to be. It means the tender pushes the train, rather than the train pulling it, but works perfectly. If anything it's slightly better as the extra weight over the motorised wheels stops some of the slippage that the wheels are prone to.

Aanchir

School starts back tomorrow, but in the meantime I've spent most of today working on this. If I can finish it, it'll almost certainly be my largest MOC since I was a kid. Certainly my largest constraction MOC.

tfranklin84

Finally finished my second horizon express set and put them together. I posted a while back my new basement. I ended up going with the "L" shape table layout and will post the progress later. 

tfranklin84

Game_on

datsunrobbie said:

Game_on said:

Wrapped up the Detectives Office (10246) last night. 

Super pleased with the build.  I left it on the kitchen table for my kids to see when they woke up.  They were definitely surprised to see it in the morning. 

Though, after looking over the entire set, my youngest looked at me with a little bit of a sad look on her face and asked,"How come we didn't get to build this one with you daddy?"

I had no answer, but I did promise that I would let them build with mo on the next set. 

I know brickheadz are a whole lot smaller, but my grandson mentioned just yesterday that he wanted to build the Hulk that I had built. I took it apart and we had great fun building it again. That's part of why I got back into LEGO, because you can build the same set more than once.

Ha ha, yeah.  I won't be doing that with that set.  lol.

I've done that with a few sets of mine as well.  I've done a few rebuilds of some of my favorite classic space sets over the past few months.  The most challenging was rebuilding my Blacktron Invader.  Biggest challenge was tracking down the parts.  (Alot of pieces could go missing after 30 years) As luck would have it, I still had them all. 
It was quite a build.  Its one thing to build a set out of the bags, but its quite a different experience hunting for every piece in a Rubbermaid bin with countless other sets mixed together.

As far as the kids go, I've got plenty of project sets around the house I can build with them.  I've got a dozen or so sets in reserve and I think my youngest still has one of the Lego Friends houses that was a present from Christmas still in the box.  Its just a matter of finding the time to start one. 

stlux

So far I only had a limited number of sets from TLM. Basically all the Unikitty's, #70816 Benny's Spaceship (spaceship!) and some of the smaller ones. I liked the 2in1 models, but just coming out of my dark ages, these sets disappeared from stores before I could buy them.
Recently I had a look at them again, and decided I liked the alternative builds of #70804, #70805 and #70811. They can compete with the best City vehicles. So now these have been added to my collection:



Then had my nieces (5 and 7) over in the weekend. They always ask if they can build something, and this weekend was no different. They choose #60181 Forest Tractor and #60150 Pizza Van, so now these are no longer in their boxes:

Fizyx

I've been thinking about getting the forest tractor, since it looks like a nice little tractor set, and would go well with the new technic logging vehicle coming out this summer. 

And the alternate builds for TLM movie sets would definitely look good going down the street of a modular building lined city street!

snowhitie

@stlux great to build together with your nieces, I've got the ice cream van too and regret not picking up the other ones. We got most TLM sets but for some reason those fell by the wayside  (as did the ship).

Speaking of ships (see what I did there?) I just finished the Bounty. It's been a bad week health-wise but I've kept up with building a little bit each day to cheer me up. And it looks well good!