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What are you building right now?

BoiseStateBoiseState Member Posts: 804
edited November 2012 in Building and Techniques
Building Helms deep.. The big one with 2 combined. I'm really impressed, although I've yet to build a castle i don't like.

What are you guys/girls building? Like or dislike?
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  • sidersddsidersdd Member Posts: 2,432
    #10181 Eiffel Tower. I've had it boxed up for over 2 years. Finally building it now. It's somewhat repetitive and a little fragile, but I'm enjoying it.
    carlwain74beardandthebrick
  • BombTecBombTec Member Posts: 110
    Am very envious. I have a years worth of new legos waiting on me to get back home. In my head I am currently building Grand Emporium and planning on doing a stop-motion with it. :oP
    Vortex
  • BrickarmorBrickarmor Member Posts: 1,258
    Built (and unbuilt) #7671 , #7661 , and #7665 between yesterday and today. FeeBay commands it.
  • soundczarsoundczar Member Posts: 21
    R2D2 that I just picked up today.
  • thebricksterthebrickster Member Posts: 63
    i just bulit my a moc of rosa parks bus imageimage
    LegoDad42thelegoguy421alittleobsessedMommaLadlm820
  • graphitegraphite Member Posts: 3,275
    Getting ready to start #10178
  • JenniJenni Member Posts: 1,390
    Nothing, I just finished copying rocao's modular library :)!
    rocao
  • dneuldneul Member Posts: 369
    I just finished and am furnishing a moc built roughly with the plans of haunted house with some modifications. I used medium blue and tan and white for snow. I "have" to wait until thanksgiving to build the winter buildings and I get to unseal the 4x4 crawler for my birthday on December 5! It is so hard having sealed sets sitting around.
    LowaTheosDracos
  • DeckerDecker Member Posts: 65
    I just finished building #4645 , #7639 , & #4206 . Getting ready to start #10197
  • rocaorocao Administrator Posts: 4,290
    edited November 2012
    sidersdd said:

    #10181 Eiffel Tower. I've had it boxed up for over 2 years. Finally building it now. It's somewhat repetitive and a little fragile, but I'm enjoying it.

    The ground level is the flimsiest, and I remember the legs/pillars collapsing a few times as I pressed down the next height of brick.

    Once built, it's sturdy enough though, and it's probably the most visually arresting of all the landmark sculptures.
  • SirKevbagsSirKevbags Member Posts: 4,027
    Lucky boy :-)
  • PhoneboothPhonebooth Member Posts: 1,430
    rocao said:

    sidersdd said:

    #10181 Eiffel Tower. I've had it boxed up for over 2 years. Finally building it now. It's somewhat repetitive and a little fragile, but I'm enjoying it.

    The ground level is the flimsiest, and I remember the legs/pillars collapsing a few times as I pressed down the next height of brick.

    Once built, it's sturdy enough though, and it's probably the most visually arresting of all the landmark sculptures.
    It is a bit of a repetitive build, but damn it looks good in my living room.
  • WallaceWallace Member Posts: 134
    edited November 2012
    Just built #3300003-1 and #9470 yesterday. Going to start #9474 and #9471 in a little while.
  • Vader_94Vader_94 Member Posts: 3
    Built #9516 - Jabba's Palace today.
  • dneuldneul Member Posts: 369
    We started early on the winter builds. My husband, myself and our two daughters build 10216 (bakery). Dd6 built the pond, dd11 built the wagon, I built the tree stand and was the "seeker" and finished what my dh didn't finish on the building. It was a fun family build.
  • littletokilittletoki Member Posts: 519
    edited November 2012
    Just finished building the older AT-AT #4483 - the head piece is so fragile, it falls apart at the slightest breeze.

    Somehow, I ended up with a couple of these. I foresee a Hoth Christmas display this year.
  • LegobrandonCPLegobrandonCP Member Posts: 1,917
    I'm building my Canadian Flag mosaic with flowers. :)
  • Penkid11Penkid11 Member Posts: 788
    About to start #9450 Epic Dragon battle. That leaves me with only eight more Ninago sets to go of released sets.
    Deadareus
  • plasmodiumplasmodium Member Posts: 1,956
    'Restoring' my #8362 that I got for my 10th birthday. Cleaning the bricks and hopefully replacing those awful stickers (they're all cracked and peely >:( ).
  • GalidorneveragainGalidorneveragain Member Posts: 89
    Vader_94 said:

    Built #9516 - Jabba's Palace today.

    Just finished it!
    jasor
  • bricksanbricksan Member Posts: 566
    I'm building Cafe Corner :-)
    Penkid11LegoFanTexas
  • JBricks27JBricks27 Member Posts: 678
    Just finished the WV toy shop and onto the bakery. Trying to finish the winter village sets ASAP to add to a winter display
  • nkx1nkx1 Member Posts: 719
    Almost finished building #9397 Logging Truck. I am pleasently surprised at the (almost) finished model. Somehow, it looks better in person than it does in pictures.
  • Si_UKNZSi_UKNZ Member Posts: 4,179
    Im building a new bedroom for our son before our new baby arrives in the next week or so. Just got the floor in yesterday, today Im on to shelves and finishing touches.

    Back to Lego in a week or two
    princedravenJenniPenkid11andheJBricks27LegoFanTexasLegoboythelegoguy421
  • ThornnThornn Member Posts: 1
    Built #4202 - Mining Truck today; just two more sets to go to complete the subtheme. :)
  • mcvitiemcvitie Member Posts: 292
    Building Fire Brigade - my first modular. I told myself I wasnt going to get into modulars as I knew what would happen... I NOW WANT THEM ALL!
    LegoFanTexasLegobrandonCPmurphquakeLegoboy
  • DeckerDecker Member Posts: 65
    @mcvitie I finished building my Fire Brigade yesterday and it was a ton fun. It was my first modular as well and I was really amazed at the building techniques and the level of detail. I think my favorite parts are the ping pong table and the brick work on the front of the building. Next up... Grand Emporium!!!
  • emilewskiemilewski Member Posts: 482
    ^ and ^^: I am between builds right now (Black Friday purchases should change that) but wanted to welcome you to the Modular Club! They are all great and look wonderful together...then you have to add streets, etc.
  • Dread_PirateDread_Pirate Member Posts: 184
    Just finished building the Winter Bakery and put it on display for the holidays. I also have a 7734 that just came in from E-bay that need a little love in the lost pieces department, and my other restoration project is the Black Monarch's Castle 6085 from 1989 that is only now missing a couple of minifigs and a flag or so.

    Next on my buy/build list is the Winter Post office and Winter Village to get my collection caught up.
  • LegoFanTexasLegoFanTexas Member Posts: 8,404
    mcvitie said:

    Building Fire Brigade - my first modular. I told myself I wasnt going to get into modulars as I knew what would happen... I NOW WANT THEM ALL!

    Good first choice, that one remains my favotite, followed by Pet Shop...
    Vortex
  • LegobrandonCPLegobrandonCP Member Posts: 1,917
    edited November 2012
    mcvitie said:

    Building Fire Brigade - my first modular. I told myself I wasnt going to get into modulars as I knew what would happen... I NOW WANT THEM ALL!

    I did the same. :) I got peer pressured into buying one from that darn predictions thread.
  • atxleeatxlee Member Posts: 155
    I am working towards "restoring" a sail barge 6210. It's quite a fun build and now I am waiting for the final pieces from lego pick a brick to complete the set.
  • monkey_roomonkey_roo Member Posts: 1,411
    Building all the winter village sets over the next few weeks (Three down two to go) with my daughter, plus a few MOC building to go with it, before laying that out in a Christmas Display.
    Waiting for 20 32x32 green baseboards to arrive to build out the grounds on my Hogwarts MOC (currently standing at 100,000+ pieces and approx 24 square foot as a footprint), separate post about that before Christmas i hope :)
    Just finished Mines of Moria set and combined it with a lot of rock and cliff parts to make a more complete diorama, hope to add the Balrock set to that next year so we have a complete journey through the mines for the fellowship.
    Mentally planing out the Jabba's Palace and Rancor Pit build in terms of putting the two together and adding a complete skin too the sets to make it look like the pit is set into the rock base that the palace is built on, plus additional areas like the droid torture room and prison pit.
    Preparing for the inevitable Friends building frenzy that will accompany my daughters birthday next week...
    BastaDeadareus
  • BuriedinBricksBuriedinBricks Member Posts: 1,367
    Made it through the first two floors of the Town Hall last week and have had no time to finish up the build yet. Hoping to get it done this weekend.
  • JenniJenni Member Posts: 1,390
    ^ my husband finally finished it today, it's taken him and my daughter weeks. It's so fun to watch her help by finding pieces, it doesn't seem too long since she made us find all of her pieces for her.

    Stuck at home with a sick child I built Villa Savoye today and will start the T1 tomorrow. Probably with more help than I really want :).
  • BastaBasta Member Posts: 1,259
    @monkey_roo wow, you will have to upload some pictures of your Hogwarts MOC. I hope you have enough space for it all. :P
  • murphquakemurphquake Member Posts: 651
    a couple hours ago I built my 2nd #9491 Geonosian Cannon, as well as #850425, the business card holder, which disappointed me with the number and variety of letter/number printed tiles... to put my name and email on it I can not do, even with 2 extra letters in my set, both of which i use (Q & U). I was planning on getting more than a few in the long run, so it's not the end of the world. Will probably do a review later. What i've really been building is monochrome minifigures, got pretty much everything I can do with my current collection done for the time being ... don't you love when your internet is flaky and your post from the day before is here when you come back? monochrome minifig update, found some S6 CMFs at TRU and Brassoed a genie head, so medium azure is done until they make hands in that color. Built #8028 mini TIE Fighter, and got 3x #9489 Endor BP for $6.49ea so threw one of those together, then built #4432 the garbage truck that i got for $9.99! (BRIGHT GREEN! ZOMG!!)
    image
    LostInTranslationThezoofoxshikadimargotNatebwzyote
  • TockoTocko Member Posts: 24
    Just built 10216 Bakery for holiday display, Toy Shop and Post Office still in queue.
  • cozycozy Member Posts: 157
    building my own lego room with as much storage and display shelving as possible.i got about 8M by 2M area so most of my time time has been planning the best layout.
  • beegeedeebeegeedee Member Posts: 380
    Coming up with plans to modify the city harbour. I've had ideas before about this. I hate the flimsiness of the 16x16 baseplates that are used so finally designed a replacement. I also wanted it elevated so the deck of the boat is level with the top-edge of the dock. It's just a design for now and needs a good few parts, probably about 20 euro plus shipping. Pics attached. The harbour model is from eurobricks - just lifted the boat and buildings and added onto my replacement road. Truck and figs there for completeness.

    It's basically 16x16 plates with a strip of 2x2 tiles and then other plates holding the lot together raised on round 2x2 bricks. simple modification really that will make it a superior set. The only downside is everything else then needs to be raised in a city layout...
    rancorbait
  • emilewskiemilewski Member Posts: 482
    ^ Beautifully done.
  • WallaceWallace Member Posts: 134
    I finished #9473 on Wednesday and built #9476 this afternoon. So that's all the LOTR sets bar #9472 built in the last month.

    Will be starting the WV sets in the next couple of weeks.
  • BrickbaseBrickbase Member Posts: 100
    That MOC looks really impressive! Just finished a Creator set, Sonic Boom. Must say it was a satisfying build.
  • Dread_PirateDread_Pirate Member Posts: 184
    monkey_roo said:

    Waiting for 20 32x32 green baseboards to arrive to build out the grounds on my Hogwarts MOC (currently standing at 100,000+ pieces and approx 24 square foot as a footprint), separate post about that before Christmas i hope :)

    At BrickCon in Seattle this year someone had a Minifig scale Hogwarts castle. The tower was about 10 feet tall and the castle was beautiful. This was by far the MOC that brought in the most viewers, I could not even get close enough to it to get any decient shots. I did notice that they had a couple of the key scenes from the movies done with minifigs.

  • PicopiratePicopirate Member Posts: 325
    I got a Walmart gift card from my employer to use to buy a turkey for thanksgiving. I usually avoid Walmart and had no plans to get our turkey there so I decided to put that towards a smaller Lego set. Today I picked up 4206 (recycling truck). So far my 4 year old has the bins and forklift built. He is napping now but he will build the truck later this evening.
  • murphquakemurphquake Member Posts: 651
    Built the 2012 Holiday set after the FBTB parts draft, prior to i started on Helicopter Rescue (the new "hospital") but had to leave to come to reliable internet before I could make any progress.
  • Penkid11Penkid11 Member Posts: 788
    Just built #853195 Brick Calendar and #3300014 Holiday Limited Edition Set. The former would work as an excellent teaching tool, and the latter blends in perfectly with the Winter Village. Now I'm currently building #10230 Mini Modulars and just with Café corner I have learned some excellent SNOT techniques. Get it while its still on sale!!
    monic76
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