I look at brick set more. I have recently been using all their uploaded instructions to verify and construct a ton of old star wars sets. finished the year 2000 millennium falcon on saturday which was the last set of like 45 sets to do.
How do people get the parts to make these? Buy individual parts? Buy certain sets?
I would guess they have a massive Star Wars collection to get that many grays in one place. It also helps to collect around a particular theme, for instance if I go for all the Space Police 2 sets many of the pieces have a similar color scheme and look.
Another fun thing to try is to get two of the same set that you really like, I've seen quite a few MOCs based on this doubling-up effect. It's fun to have imposed limits like that on the pieces you have available sometimes.
Here are some of my recent creations. also a sad story: one time i built a star destroyer from a set and i'd say an hour after i finished it fell of the table and broke into a a thousand pieces
Gatling gun 1st draft I'll be improving it over time
And a (unfinished) 67 Chevy Impala from supernatural + Sam. again i'll be adding onto it as time goes on
Thanks! i've been working on it for a while now but i have two and a half "under the bed" bins full of legos and finding the pieces you need can be a pain and i don't really like the Lego Digital Designer
This week I decided I wanted to build the death star. Started Wednesday Night
First off this thing is divided into 4 boxes. So many bags of each number. All the bag 1s and like 20+ minifigs took forever to find and sort
Sitting one 3 Hours
Sitting 2 4.5 more hours
Sitting 3 6.5 more hours (started to get serious lol)
Sitting 4 short afternoon 2.5 hours (got the very tedious laser gear setup and 180 piece laser alone done.
Final Sitting. Determined to finsih 5.5 hours
So a total of 22 hours. This is one big 3803 piece lego. Was really fun to build. It was only frustrating that they made so many bags the same number in a box so you had to open all of them covering the table making it take awhile to find the pieces. Usually I dont divide out the colors when building because there rarely is too many at once, but Id recommend it for this. This thing has a lot of cool features.
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I'm currently in the process of acquiring the bricks to build the Discovery and the Leonov.
http://truedimensions.com/leonov/
http://truedimensions.com/discovery/
Originally posted by: Mario's Right Nut
That is the most badassed thing ever. I'll have to look into the site more. There are a few sets I had as a kid I'd like to re-create.
I'm currently in the process of acquiring the bricks to build the Discovery and the Leonov.
http://truedimensions.com/leonov/...
http://truedimensions.com/discove...
Wow.
How do people get the parts to make these? Buy individual parts? Buy certain sets?
Originally posted by: Entity
Originally posted by: Mario's Right Nut
That is the most badassed thing ever. I'll have to look into the site more. There are a few sets I had as a kid I'd like to re-create.
I'm currently in the process of acquiring the bricks to build the Discovery and the Leonov.
http://truedimensions.com/leonov/
http://truedimensions.com/discovery/
Wow.
How do people get the parts to make these? Buy individual parts? Buy certain sets?
I would guess they have a massive Star Wars collection to get that many grays in one place. It also helps to collect around a particular theme, for instance if I go for all the Space Police 2 sets many of the pieces have a similar color scheme and look.
Another fun thing to try is to get two of the same set that you really like, I've seen quite a few MOCs based on this doubling-up effect. It's fun to have imposed limits like that on the pieces you have available sometimes.
Originally posted by: Entity
Originally posted by: Mario's Right Nut
That is the most badassed thing ever. I'll have to look into the site more. There are a few sets I had as a kid I'd like to re-create.
I'm currently in the process of acquiring the bricks to build the Discovery and the Leonov.
http://truedimensions.com/leonov/
http://truedimensions.com/discovery/
Wow.
How do people get the parts to make these? Buy individual parts? Buy certain sets?
There are people that buy LEGO by the footlocker-load.
The stuff gets priced by the pound.
http://lego.gizmodo.com/this-lego-diorama-is-bigger-than-my-bedroom-1652835199
Those sets aren't even that big, this on the other hand.
http://lego.gizmodo.com/this-lego...
This guy da real mvp
think they will make another batch of the lego tumbler again? (the new batmobile)
didn't want to buy it but, my batman urge is killing me
still looking into getting the original batmobile release cib from a guy for 150
Gatling gun 1st draft I'll be improving it over time
And a (unfinished) 67 Chevy Impala from supernatural + Sam. again i'll be adding onto it as time goes on
Originally posted by: Entity
I'm impressed you had the restraint to make a gun and a vehicle and not immediately combine them.
If i had built them at the same time i might have
supernatural lego set!
sam/dean with the car would be rockin'
Originally posted by: punkr13
dude that is a good idea!
supernatural lego set!
sam/dean with the car would be rockin'
Thanks! i've been working on it for a while now but i have two and a half "under the bed" bins full of legos and finding the pieces you need can be a pain and i don't really like the Lego Digital Designer
Originally posted by: Foochie776
Does anybody have interest in a box of just random assorted pieces? I have too many Legos and need to trim the heard. Let me know
Other than everyone?
Originally posted by: Foochie776
Does anybody have interest in a box of just random assorted pieces? I have too many Legos and need to trim the heard. Let me know
There is a market for selling them by the pound.
Does anybody have interest in a box of just random assorted pieces? I have too many Legos and need to trim the heard. Let me know
Quest4nes buys them by the pound I think
http://kotaku.com/the-lego-detectives-office-has-a-story-to-tell-1662193164
Originally posted by: Quack
^I always wanted to get those modular sets. Some of the older ones are so damn expensive now though.
They do a great job on them. The palace cinema set is another really nice one that's still available.
I'm thinking of getting that arkham ashylum set they have
This week I decided I wanted to build the death star. Started Wednesday Night
First off this thing is divided into 4 boxes. So many bags of each number. All the bag 1s and like 20+ minifigs took forever to find and sort
Sitting one 3 Hours
Sitting 2 4.5 more hours
Sitting 3 6.5 more hours (started to get serious lol)
Sitting 4 short afternoon 2.5 hours (got the very tedious laser gear setup and 180 piece laser alone done.
Final Sitting. Determined to finsih 5.5 hours
So a total of 22 hours. This is one big 3803 piece lego. Was really fun to build. It was only frustrating that they made so many bags the same number in a box so you had to open all of them covering the table making it take awhile to find the pieces. Usually I dont divide out the colors when building because there rarely is too many at once, but Id recommend it for this. This thing has a lot of cool features.
It always looked so fun to build.
Found these 2 boxes- sealed and found out they had more but sold them yesterday and today
And now this set
I came up too late to pick it up
Basically saw the guy going through the box, taking out the minifigs
He told me that he got it for 7 bucks
The cool thing is that he just wanted the figs and some misc pieces
Gave me the box and the rest of the lego blocks inside
So close to getting a almost complete set hehe