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Breaking up is hard to do
After nearly a year on display (and having promised my good lady wife that it would only dominate the corner of the living room for a month) the time is approaching to dismantle the UCS Falcon.
Now typically, when I take a modest sized set apart, I simply bundle the parts into sensible groups (liftarms, plates, pins etc), put them into ziplock bags and back in the box they go.
However, this is considerably bigger than anything I've ever built, and in order to be able to build it again at some point in the future (when I have more display space), I'm wondering what the best way to go about the deconstruction process is?
At present I'm considering trying to work backwards through the book so that I can at least put all the pieces into appropriately numbered bags, however, I can see that being pretty time consuming.
Anyone got any suggestions for taking apart big sets with an eye on ease of reconstruction?
Cheers!
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I think unbuilding it backwards is your best bet; start at the end, and bag (and number the bags) as you go. That way, when you rebuild it again, sections are already in order so you're not sifting through 7,541 pieces. It's either going to be ease of deconstruction or ease of reconstruction. Most Technic sets need to be unbuilt rather than simply ripped apart due to the generally over-engineered aspect that locks them together so well. Plus, you'll kind of get the experience of building it again, only in reverse. Might as well get the most bang for your $799.99 buck.
Sell your wife on the coffee table. When my wife was asking my when I planned on eventually building the MilF and where I was going to put it, I simply told her I had some ideas. Her response was "No coffee table in the living room." Fortunately, I'm planning on putting the coffee table in the basement, so she can't be mad (?).
Just a thought.
Thanks all. Reverse-engineer it into numbered bags and keep it out of the bedroom.
Noted!
You could then adopt @daewoo's method for the clean up.
Edit: finally remembered it was Mandrproductions
With that in mind, I'd just take it all apart and put similar pieces together. Then you're not wasting too much time on planning for something which probably won't happen!
No children, and our house is busting at the seams. We've been wanting to move for about 5 years, but work / family issues have put a stop to that up until now. We'd hope to be in a bigger place in the next 18 months or so, though, so I'm angling for a 'me' room where I can have a permanent Lego presence.
If I want to build them again, I try and just group like pieces together - so whether you're looking for a massive beam, or a 1x1 stud, then you know which tub/bag/whatever to look in. I think that dismantling backwards is going to be such an unenjoyable process it negates the benefits.
You could be right where much larger sets are concerned... especially where the MilF.
There is something gratifying when you have a set all neatly packed away though, perhaps it's my tendency toward the obsessive or overly fastidious. It's definitely really nice to come back to a set that has been put away like that.
I can appreciate it's not for everyone, but I only plan to do it with sets I'm planning to keep together rather than ones that will eventually get mixed into my moc building collection.
Makes me think of Lou Rawls.
...You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine...
Or I guess you could just...
come with me...and you'll be...in a world of pure obliteration!
I'm hoping that I just missed the missing bits out first time, and that I'll find them in the leftovers bag when I open the box again.
Fingers crossed.