What are you building right now?

mustang69

^ & ^^ Thanks, the progress is slow but I'm ok with that. I get to enjoy the build more :)  It's very interesting following the instructions generated by the digital designer. The steps are so random and chaotic but that too is a little enjoyable as it helps extend the build process. Anyway, here is a little update from last night. Didnt have much building time but its looking good.

Switchfoot55

@mustang69, where did you get the instructions? 

mustang69

@Switchfoot55 they were generated from LDD, from the build I made based on the haunted house. It’s not really a 1:1 build of the HH with swapped colors though so I couldnt use those instructions.

bandit778

Finally got hold of the Fett Man Brickheadz just so I could do this...........

Little things and all that. :)

snowhitie

@bandit778 it's sooo cool!

Astrobricks

^^ What? No white rangefinder?

bandit778

Astrobricks said:

^^ What? No white rangefinder?

No, @BOSSK stole it for his minifigure.

gelkster

 Building my LOTR orc & goblin armies thru a trade

SumoLego

(That's only with the Hoth/Christmas Special Boba Fett.  Let's be fair here!)

GoodCoffeeJoey

Bat Wolf is finished. 

It’s available now from Creations 4 Charity. Somebody go buy it!

MaffyD

So, still no Slave 1 pictures. But I did manage something over the weekend. Its main attribute and main annoyance of the same thing. An abundance...

Of all grey

Very tiny

Greebling!

It does look very very nice. My son will go nuts tomorrow morning! And then I'll have to go searching for the missing bits...

@Fauch - we'll have to compare notes on the build. Do you have lots of pieces left over? I have a fair few...

Fauch

I'll have to take note when I finish it. oh yeah, I had some "large" ones left, like a ski, found that weird.

MaffyD

^ And I thought I was posting very late into the night/early morning!

mustang69

Made a little bit of progress on my Christmas Mansion. Still a bit to go but hopefully I can finish it up this week.

PJ76uk

In the mood for some therapeutic building, plus the backlog needed denting, so decided to pop the tabs on #75230 Star Wars Porg. Interesting build with the body built like cladding over a central frame. Mouth/wing function simple but effective. Perfect for displaying next to my #75187 Star Wars BB-8 once I make space on the Star Wars display shelf...

datsunrobbie

Finished building Buckingham Palace last night. I picked it up used, happy to find it was complete. There were two spares for the microfig used for the statue out front, one in gold and one in sand green - is that normal, or did the prior owner throw in some extras?

benbacardi

^ I'd be surprised to find a spare microfig in sand green when it's not used in the set - that sounds more like it comes from the New York Skyline set, where there was a spare for the Statue of Liberty.

Addicted2Oxygen

I built brick bank and assembly square a few months back. My modular shelf is now looking nice and populated.

 

I enjoyed BB. The money laundering build was a lovely surprise. I knew it was in there, but the actual build caught me by surprise. I did not know what I was building until I was nearly done. 

Assembly square i had mixed feelings about. Started well, then got rather bored with the build around the dance studio. Just seemed rather dull and repetitive. The roof area behind the digger buckets is just weird and unfinished feeling. Rest of the build was enjoyable. But was my least favourite build so far. Maybe was just not in the zone. As a completed build it looks great and am very happy with it on the street. 

I have 2.5 baseplates of space left so can fit DD and whatever the new one will be but then the hard decisions will have to be made. 

Until then the Ewok village is under attack. 



Since finding some of my childhood Lego (see earlier post) I have been on a bit of a building streak. 
- got BWE built. Awesome build, but blimey that is a beast. Kids really enjoyed playing with it and figured out the controls v quickly. Really itching to make a GBC now.  
- keeping on the big theme I then got the Saturn V built. A straightforward build, but with some mind blowing techniques. Not had a building experience quite like it.
- then sprinkled around these I have built a scattershot of Star Wars sets: #75176 #75170 #75135 #75152. All nice little builds. Transport pod was rather meh, but I expected that. Has some nice parts and minifigs though. I also now really want a lassat and a UCS Ghost. And have an urge to watch Rogue one again. 



Next build will be scarif set, and thinking I will have to get the rest of my R1 sets out and built to have a complete collection on display. 

But before then I will have to make some hard descions about what to pack away. 

PandaX

Just finish the modification of 21047.  In order to fit into the IKEA display box, the back of Bellagio needs to rebuild and the Pyramid needs to relocate.  I am trying to minimize the alternations and keep the original design. 

Fauch

MaffyD said:

@Fauch - we'll have to compare notes on the build. Do you have lots of pieces left over? I have a fair few...

so, the same spare pieces listed on bricklink minus 1 light bley cheese slope and 1 light bley stud.

anisboy

As we're hoping to emigrate to NZ sometime soon, and as a lorry driver I'd like to practice manouvering a B Train, my lovely partner bought me two Mack Anthems so I spent last weekend building one and using only the parts from the second one to modify the trailer to take a second fifth wheel. I then decided to modify the steering to twin steer although it would be fair to say on Mack's of this type of use this is not the norm in NZ. You find it more on flat nosers.

The steering is very rudimentary and could be done much more comprehensively but I didn't want to take half the cab apart to get to the workings, that'll come at a later time.

The rest is fairly simple, and I would like to add details such as Air lines etc, and power functions too. I had to strengthen the pin plate on the first trailer (though I think it's a weak point on the original model), and the second pin had to drop another stud so all worked out nicely. I also had to move the wheels out half a stud  on the leading trailer to clear the frame for lift steady.

The one thing I would like to change is the longitudinal sloppiness of the fifth wheels, it's very irritating but haven't come up with solution yet (time issue mostly)

As an aside we also managed to find the chase figure for Wizarding World so pretty chuffed with that too :)

truck730

Nice job , scania does a bonnet twin steer ,good luck with the move and beyond,you'll miss the mildly cheaper lego but that's about all

MaffyD

Fauch said:

MaffyD said:

@Fauch - we'll have to compare notes on the build. Do you have lots of pieces left over? I have a fair few...

so, the same spare pieces listed on bricklink minus 1 light bley cheese slope and 1 light bley stud.

Similar to mine then. It does seem like a lot to me, but maybe that's normal for a nearly 2k set with lots of detail...

Fauch

apparently you have more than me. 2 dark bley tiles, I dark tan plate, 2 half round light bley tiles and 1 1x2 sand blue tile. you have the same number of light bley cheese slopes and studs, so I guess bricklink is wrong for them.

PotatoBrick

Building Fantastic Beasts Newt's case (review to come soon) and finishing the Tron set. For those curious, the promo right now (if you spend over 99) gets you double VIP, diagon alley, and the christmas special. This is for the USA, I do not know about other countries. Cheers!

Pmh

Got lego darthvader 75534 from girlfriend. So that's what I build recently.

Always been secptical about lego buildable figures but this set is amazing. The pieces and plasict feel high quality and it does look great as a stand alone about anywhere in the house. Unfortunatly the other starwars figures dont look halve as good.

PJ76uk

Last couple of parts arrived so finally can put 75997 Ant-Man and the Wasp together.

Bowie1979

Batmobile from Batman: The Animated Series - BrickLinked with building instructions from an issue of Blocks.

Addicted2Oxygen

Built a little crash site for #75136

Astrobricks

I just finished #10263 WV Fire Station and was particularly impressed with how the tall windows in the tower were done. That’s a technique I never would have come up with.

pxchris

I built #6378 last night which I just acquired off of eBay. Lots of nostalgia in that one for me as it's the first set my grandmother bought me and the first set that I really have any memories for. Fantastic feeling to have it again!

PJ76uk

Last year I got a large plastic container filled with loose Lego from my brother, over 80 complete sets including #75060 and #75095. Since I already had the Slave I, I gave the parts to my nephews so they could build (and keep) it. The TIE has been on my build list for sometime but finding all 1685 pieces was a chore so kept putting it off. Have finally got all the pieces together and built it. So huge though, think I would've been better to build the #75101 from the container as easier to find shelf space!



It is however a lot sturdier than I'd thought it would be...

elspankdog

Got some of those power function kits on sale so I started the process of lighting my deco theater.  Ordered the 9v train parts off BL to hopefully get this thing to plug into an outlet for automation.

Astrobricks

^ Is that modeled on a real building? The off-center vertical sign is an interesting choice.

elspankdog

^ Yes, it's a real life building:

Modeltrainman

Pixar's Up house. Been working on it for months!My friend did the art. Best part, I did it with one hand. And a dream. You can vote for it, if you like it. https://ideas.lego.com/projects/2014d893-a049-4506-87a3-cb923d2aa3ae

Modeltrainman

More photos:https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/

gelkster

Building #7937 Train Station for my newly acquired #60051. Then I gotta squeeze this beast in before I start Grand Carousel around Xmas.

Briking

Just built Bag 1s of #10263.  Meh.

Penkid11

Briking said:

Just built Bag 1s of #10263.  Meh.

It's supposed to be designed for a child to easily assemble, as often these sets are built as a family.

As mentioned by the designers in the designer video.

MaffyD

All sorts going on today for me:

MaffyD

Loving all the festive colours

MaffyD

These parts are gorgeous. Haven't seen them before, are they in Elves or somewhere?

Bumblepants

@MaffyD I believe they debuted in the friends hotel set a couple years back. They have since been in Elves. They come in tan and reddish brown also.

Modeltrainman

@Bumblepants, Disney sets have them, too.

Astrobricks

They’re in 34 sets now:
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?id=136030#T=P

MaffyD

Thanks @Astrobricks - I guess the sets I've bought up til now have been too functional to have swirls on them!

SumoLego

MaffyD said:

All sorts going on today for me:

Need to do a little trimming around the fence, the grass is a bit long.  Chop! Chop!

sid3windr

Penkid11 said:

Briking said:

Just built Bag 1s of #10263.  Meh.

It's supposed to be designed for a child to easily assemble, as often these sets are built as a family.

As mentioned by the designers in the designer video.

It's a Creator Expert set.

As mentioned on the front of the box.

MrJackson

SumoLego said

Need to do a little trimming around the fence, the grass is a bit long.  Chop! Chop!

How do you notice these things????