What are you building right now?

560Heliport · January 24

#7094 King's Castle Siege. Check out the King's chrome gold crown and sword!

560Heliport · January 24

#5615 The Knight, #7090 Crossbow Attack, #7091 Knight's Catapult Defense, and #7092 Skeletons' Prison Carriage.

WesterBricks · January 25

My last Christmas gift arrived today. I love this set so much.

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WesterBricks · January 28

Picked up the Speed Champions Mopar duo ( #76904 ) today for $20. I loved this 1970 Challenger T/A when it was released a few years ago, but I couldn’t pony up $50 for the pair, since I don’t care about the dragster at all.

Bumblepants · January 29

Bored at work event as Sunday is an off day so I made a small house from my PaB cup parts. Limited parts made it a challenge but I found a nice way to make a secure sloped roof.

evancelt · January 29

Working on a building for my train layout, with a dog playing fetch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XqKuysMbFI

evancelt · January 29

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doPkf7AFjQs

bandit778 · January 30

Working longer shifts but having more days off has been a boon for me where building is concerned.
Had another day off so built myself the Classic Space Star Destroyer (Surely I can't be the only one who ran it above my head to replicate the first scene in Star Wars?).

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I thought I'd treat myself to this one while I had the chance as I'd have hated to have missed it.
I only had two or three smaller space sets as a kid and loved the aesthetic of the rebooted ship. It's also a smorgasbord of building techniques to achieve the shaping and it was fun to learn whilst building it.

All in all a fantastic build and one of the best I've built in a long time. My only complaint (one for the unpopular opinions thread) are the classic space heads. After so many years of expressions on faces, the blank stare and smile just don't work for me any more.

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The senior officers were too busy to go outside so they let Barry the bog cleaner loose in the buggy. :)

Blockwork_Orange · January 30

^ I guess I'm not the only one that assumed the brown space figure was relegated to septic maintainence and removal. :)) I plan on building a spaceship/sucker truck and a couple of space porta-potties when I have the time to get to it.

evancelt · February 1

A little more progress on that red building, though I need to redo the roof some I think

Gotta make a door too.

gelkster · February 2

More sets have revealed themselves. Getting close to the end, at the current rate I'm going (i.e. all my free time) I should be done by next weekend- this was a huge undertaking & took 1 month+ even with a few long weekends in there.

21143 The Nether Portal
31126 Supersonic Jet
76001 The Bat vs Bane: Tumbler Chase
76008 Iron Man vs the Mandarin

560Heliport · February 2

#6076 Dark Dragon's Den. I added some plant pieces from PAB. This is my favorite of the Dragon Knights sets- though they're all great.

Switchfoot55 · February 2

@evancelt, which lights are you using for the lanterns on the front of that building?

Fizyx · February 2

Switchfoot55 said:

@evancelt, which lights are you using for the lanterns on the front of that building?

They look like a lantern piece with a transparent yellow 1x1brick inside.

Switchfoot55 · February 2

Sorry, I meant the actual light element inside of it as, from the earlier videos, they flicker.

evancelt · February 2

Switchfoot55 said:

@evancelt, which lights are you using for the lanterns on the front of that building?

I found them on AliExpress - they are 1x1 trans studs (official LEGO ones) that have an LED shoved inside of them and are connected to a male USB plug on the other end. I then plug that into an LED light strip (think those ones people put behind their TVs) controller so I can switch between different flashing/pulsing/flicker modes.

I think each light is $2 with free shipping, and the controller is ~$1.50

Switchfoot55 · February 2

I've seen those on Aliexpress before. Might need to revisit them. Any chance you have a link to the ones you purchased?

evancelt · February 2

Switchfoot55 said:

I've seen those on Aliexpress before. Might need to revisit them. Any chance you have a link to the ones you purchased?

These are the lights: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256802985878709.html

And the controllers: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/2251832658406837.html

560Heliport · February 3

#6085 Black Monarch's Castle. IMHO, the best Lego castle. The string is not original.

Twelve minifigures! Only the Yellow Castle, #375 #6075 had more. (#10305 is an Icons set, not Castle, so it doesn't count. Fight me!)

Bumblepants · February 3

@560Heliport you are building all my childhood sets! Do Forestmens Crossing next

560Heliport · February 3

@Bumblepants sorry, I don't have that one! But I have #6077 Forestmen's River Fortress...

WesterBricks · February 3

560Heliport said:

#6085 Black Monarch's Castle. IMHO, the best Lego castle. (snip)

I always wanted this castle when I was a kid, but I couldn't afford it.

Now that I'm an adult and it's been retired for 30 years, I still can't afford it.

560Heliport · February 3

@Bumblepants I'm not sure where the instructions for #6077 are hiding, so I'm building 1995's Royal Knights. Emilie the cat is supervising, and making sure there's plenty of cat hair available.

Bumblepants · February 3

560Heliport said:

@Bumblepants I'm not sure where the instructions for #6077 are hiding, so I'm building 1995's Royal Knights. Emilie the cat is supervising, and making sure there's plenty of cat hair available.

I had that one too so your streak is still intact.

Diamondback_Six · February 3

560Heliport said:

@Bumblepants I'm not sure where the instructions for #6077 are hiding, so I'm building 1995's Royal Knights. Emilie the cat is supervising, and making sure there's plenty of cat hair available.

If you don't mind "instructions on screen"...
6077-2: https://manuall.co.uk/lego-set-6077-forestmen-river-fortress/

So much for "not recycling set numbers"...

Lo1sJess · February 3

@560Heliport Emilie’s hair match’s these sets color scheme😁

PapaBear · February 4

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Finished building the Tie Bomber. I really like the slight asymmetry of it.

evancelt · February 4

Got started on a quick build last night

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Lo1sJess · February 4

@evancelt Really appreciate you sharing the build from the start. For me at least, I haven’t done much MOCing and have ideas find it hard to get the starting steps worked out and the layers of detail you are able to add throughout are great to see and learn from.

Seeing a bit how you organize parts is good also.

Cymbeline · February 4

@evancelt Yes I too really appreciate seeing how your builds progress. I'm trying to advance from plain flat plate bases to something more natural and organic and seeing the in between steps really helps.

evancelt · February 5

A little bit more progress on the build, though I think I may change up the tree a bit. Then gotta think about figures and how to turn that mushroom into a chimney :D

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Switchfoot55 · February 6

evancelt said:

Got started on a quick build last night

Quick build? That would have taken me a month!

Really like how it's coming together!

evancelt · February 6

Switchfoot55 said:

evancelt said:

Got started on a quick build last night

Quick build? That would have taken me a month!

Really like how it's coming together!

Thanks! The quickness just comes from practice - doing it a bunch makes it easier to expect how it will turn out

Awesomeness · February 6

Looking for pieces, and decided to pull this one from storage and build again.

Cymbeline · February 7

Johnny rides again!

karrit · February 7

Just finished building my Swing Ship Ride GWP from 2021 #6373621. It's missing the blue tile that says "LEG GODT 2021". Sent a request to Lego for a replacement tile so it should interesting to see if they still have any available or what they will offer for a replacement. Nothing even comes up for that set number on the website or any of the alternate set numbers I could find.

evancelt · February 7

Gonna try incorporating some hands as vegetation in that lime landscape / building MOC

arathemis · February 7

Poor lego people...

pxchris · February 7

I really have to hand it to you @evancelt on the NPU...

Switchfoot55 · February 7

Excited to see what comes of those hands!

pxchris · February 8

After much Bricklink struggle...

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Sorry for not many other pics of the build... I'm just really focused on enjoying the build on this one. Due to the brittle brown issues, I will likely never dismantle or rebuild this ship ever again.
I ended last night being about 3/4 of the way through I'd estimate. I will certainly finish it up today after work.
Good news on the brittle brown front - other than the issues with the hull pieces, so far I haven't had a single other piece break or crack that I've heard. It truly is a beautiful ship! I've started clearing off some shelf space for it, it definitely takes up a commanding footprint!

iwybs · February 8

Seeing the problems with brittle brown in your used Imperial Flagship makes me happy I didn't pull the trigger on buying one when I could have, instead I waited and got Barracuda Bay .... Hopefully that one won't have the same brittle brown problems in the long run. I built it twice but it's been in storage for a couple of years.

pxchris · February 8

I think PoBB should be safe from the issue - it came out after TLG purportedly fixed the issue. That set is truly a masterclass of design! I hope to be able to rebuild and enjoy it many times over the years.

PDelahanty · February 9

Blockwork_Orange said:

^ I guess I'm not the only one that assumed the brown space figure was relegated to septic maintainence and removal. :)) I plan on building a spaceship/sucker truck and a couple of space porta-potties when I have the time to get to it.

His uniform is actually white...when it's clean.

evancelt · February 9

Switchfoot55 said:

Excited to see what comes of those hands!

Some initial hand-based vegetation

arathemis · February 9

I do like the bamboo looking katanga forest.

Astrobricks · February 10

^ Isn’t it katana?

arathemis · February 11

Would you believe it was autocorrect?
When you type in 2 (or even more) languages on the same phone, you'd be surprised to see what autocorrect thinks is right or wrong.
It is my mistake to not proof reading everything, all the time, that I admit.

evancelt · February 11

Worked a little more on my train landscape tonight, getting the majority of 2 more MILS modules done. Need to think of some good crops to stick in the field

Image: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/885972569361088562/1073868914230034503/D3815C7D-D95F-4869-A467-C2642464BB51.jpg

560Heliport · February 11

#8455 Back-Hoe.

What are you building right now?

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