What are you building right now?

snowhitie

Been rebuilding some Lego City underwater sets today.Tried to 'pose' them a bit for the picture :)

Speedman29

The latest LEGO Explorer magazine arrived during the week, we built the cute rain forest frog polybag that came with it.

Basty

My girlfriend now has flowers for life :) My wallet will be eternally grateful. I’ve told her to re arrange them every few weeks so it feels like a new fresh bunch of flowers. Also whoever decided to have the instructions on a black background with lots of dark green elements is an idiot. 

GrannyLEGO

Basty said:

... whoever decided to have the instructions on a black background with lots of dark green elements is an idiot.

Amen!

Paperballpark

Some of you might remember that back in 2017 I built a model of the Palace of Westminster, using the #10253 Big Ben set as a starting point.

Well, I've built a mini version.

About a year ago, I was moving my Architecture model of #21013 Big Ben, and I idly wondered how big the full building would be at that scale.

So I started building it, to find out. The answer is, a lot bigger than I thought!

After building on and off (mostly off) for the past year, it's now finished.

Unlike the original version, I have no idea how long I spent building this one, it doesn't split down into sections for transporting, and I have no idea how many elements are in it. If I had to guess, I'd say about 20,000 - 30,000 pieces.

I do know it's heavy!

Oh, and it measures 85cm (33.5in) x 50cm (20in).

More photos are available on my Flickr album.

Astrobricks

^ Love it! Where’s the scaffolding and plastic sheeting? ;-)

Diamondback_Six

Just built 60266 last week. Overall solid, but needs better storage for the boat and cage aboard ship.

KLOKRIECHER

I've built and filmed set 6580 today:

KungFuKenny

@Paperballpark
That looks top-notch— really nice work! 

msanders

GrannyLEGO said:

Basty said:

... whoever decided to have the instructions on a black background with lots of dark green elements is an idiot.

Amen!

Totally! I built Ninjago City Gardens and they have the dark brown elements on the black background - I could`t see in which order to add x1, 1x2, 1x4, 1x6 dk brown plates. No chance. 

KLOKRIECHER

Had some fun building and filming the Alien Avenger (set 6975) today:

Speedman29

The owl tablecloth returns! Nice little build of #60305 Very simple system to allow the upper deck to hinge up and down.

560Heliport

Yay! Owl tablecloth!

KLOKRIECHER

I built set 6979 today:

blokey9

Speedman29 said:

The owl tablecloth returns! Nice little build of #60305 Very simple system to allow the upper deck to hinge up and down.

i thought you jack knifed the truck, then i realised it was just the box. the angle threw me.

KLOKRIECHER

Today I've built and filmed set 6741:

GeekinTheHighCastle

I'm currently building a replica of an old display mode I missed out on when it was on eBay.

Switchfoot55

Started building #75979 Hedwig last night. Got through bags 1 and 2 and am loving the mechanics so far. I'm really looking forward to finishing it off this evening and can't wait to put it on display. 

GeekinTheHighCastle

Last nights progress, it was all going so well till I ran out of bricks....

Fizyx

Switchfoot55 said:

Started building #75979 Hedwig last night. Got through bags 1 and 2 and am loving the mechanics so far. I'm really looking forward to finishing it off this evening and can't wait to put it on display. 

I usually only motorize large sets, although occasionally I've temporarily motorized small sets, or driven a number of smaller sets off of a single motor.  Hedwig is so fantastic though that I think that may be the first sub-$100 set that I get its own permanent motor for.

Switchfoot55

^You'll have to post any progress you might make on this as I'd be very interested in seeing how one might go about it. I agree that it would bring this build to a whole new level. 

veyniac

I think JKBrickworks designed a good method for motorizing the set, as well as making the wing mechanism work more smoothly.

Basty

My vase finally arrived (replacing the temporary pint glass solution) so I was able to plant my flowers. Really happy with how it turned out. 

KLOKRIECHER

Time to take a look at set 6969 today:

Switchfoot55

veyniac said:

I think JKBrickworks designed a good method for motorizing the set, as well as making the wing mechanism work more smoothly.

Found his video and motor mod. Not sure why I didn't think to check there previously as this is right up his alley. I like his wing modification to slow the decent slightly as well. I'll probably make that mod before I jump into bag 3 tonight. 

Fizyx

Switchfoot55 said:

veyniac said:

I think JKBrickworks designed a good method for motorizing the set, as well as making the wing mechanism work more smoothly.

Found his video and motor mod. Not sure why I didn't think to check there previously as this is right up his alley. I like his wing modification to slow the decent slightly as well. I'll probably make that mod before I jump into bag 3 tonight. 

I was also planning to piggyback off of his build, as he is pretty much infinitely better at these sorts of things than I ever will be :P

snowhitie

@Paperballpark great work again! You must have a lot of patience with all those tiny pieces. Very impressive.

Afoltv

Created a new modular system for the new LEGO Road plates - hope you guys like it! 

https://youtu.be/spBpa1p4hrQ

KLOKRIECHER

Did anybody notice the error in the instructions of set 4731? :-)

KLOKRIECHER

Today I've built set 8622 - Nidhiki:

Speedman29

After my fourth BL orders arrived, I set to building the flat wagon with the yellow load.

Once finished it was added to the back of the Crocodile loco on my shelf. Unfortunately it seems pretty fragile. The drop section in the middle is only attached to the raised boogie ends by a 1x6 line of studs, plus the turntable attached to the wheels is a bit stiff to actually run on track, which is a shame. A few mods and it should be usable. Lucky I only made it for static display .

Astrobricks

Boogie till your bogies fall off ;-)

brickventures

My DH enjoyed building his Christmas present, the Fatboy, such a beautiful display piece.  It's becoming a tradition that I gift him a large vehicle set every Christmas.  He used to reluctently built the sets but he seems to be enjoying it now.  I am slowly turning him into an AFOL, not sure if that's a good thing for the wallet ;)

Paperballpark

I've just built this which arrived today: #30343 McLaren Elva

It looks much nicer than the official image on the bag, and it's far far better than the Lambo polybag #30342 from last year.

Plus you have to really pay attention to the instructions, as there's no parts call-out boxes, and no outlines of what pieces have been added!

KLOKRIECHER

Building another vintage set. This time it's set 7315:

autolycus

Not right now, but earlier today I built my first of the 18+ SW helmets (the Stormtrooper). Not a bad build. I really like the end result. I’m looking forward to more. I think they’ll all display nicely alongside each other, and I hope the line has legs for at least another couple years. Really looking forward to the ones expected for 2021!

KLOKRIECHER

Today I've built this vintage space set:

legobod

legobod

That was a fast build, a lot of leftover parts though

GrannyLEGO

decisions decisions ... my silent invisible delivery person just snuck up and left a package from LEGO on my doorstep with #76385 Charms Class #76384 Herbology Class with the freebies #30628 Monster Book and #30567 Police Water Scooter ... where do I start?

For the curious I already have #76383 Potions Class and #76382 Transfiguration Class is on its way

bandit778

Really loving the Helmet line. Amazing techniques to get the shapes involved. 3rd of 4 now complete.

They are also fantastic display pieces and look great together. 
Only the Fett man to do, then the anticipation waiting for the details of what's coming this year.

Basty

This is such a fun little colourful set

brickventures

Finally got a chance to restore set #6392, bought aeons ago as part of a bulk lot.  I enjoyed sourcing the bricks and building it, loved the airplane and helicopter. Some parts substitution and 99.9 complete minifigs.   Nice play feature that you can open the cabin. 
Next builds from the lot will be classic space...

Astrobricks

^ Ouch! What happened to that helicopter windshield?

brickventures

Astrobricks said:

^ Ouch! What happened to that helicopter windshield?

That and a corner of one of the baseplates had damage.

JudgeChuck

I recently finished up another of @BenBuildsLego's skylines. This time it is SW: TESB:

The only part missing is the Obi Wan Kenobi "ghost" microfig, but that is on its way. It was also impossible to source the Slope, Curved 4 x 2 x 2 Triple in white so, as suggested here, I replaced those with 2x2 bricks and Slope, Curved 1 x 2 x 1 in white, which worked perfectly and doesn't spoil the overall look at all. I also had to replace the Tile, Round 1 x 1 Quarter in Dark Tan with a mix of the same part in Tan and Reddish Brown, as that part is also nearly impossible to source, having only appeared in #41627 Luke Skywalker & Yoda.
On to SW: RotJ next!

I also knocked together @JKBrickworks Tensegrity Sculpture:

A very simple build, but I love it! :-)

Speedman29

I really like these skylines @JudgeChuck so simple yet instantly recognisable. A 1x1 cone and a train conductors paddle and we have a Hoth cannon, genius.
I built the same tensegrity sculpture a while back, but from random colours I had in my unsorted brick pile, one day I'll do it properly. 

Basty

Decided it was time to frame all the minifigure series I have. At first I tried using white for the stands but with an orange base it felt wrong, so I coloured matched the stand with the base. Although since the frames (sannahed) don’t arrive on Sunday I don’t know what the final product will look like. 

Speedman29

Still really cheesed off that Ikea stopped the Ribba 50x50 frames in black. I still need one more to complete a wall of the LEGO room, then I can start to find some different ones to use. 35x35 is the biggest the Sannahed comes in, which is an odd size

PJ76uk

Speedman29 said:

Still really cheesed off that Ikea stopped the Ribba 50x50 frames in black. I still need one more to complete a wall of the LEGO room, then I can start to find some different ones to use. 35x35 is the biggest the Sannahed comes in, which is an odd size

I think I might have one still sealed if your desperate?!