Time Aplenty

Two weeks ago I bought a 35 pound box of parts of sets all mixed together. I sorted the parts by type and started trying to recreate the sets from the parts available. Its a good activity when you have lots of time, otherwise I wouldn’t recommend it.

Next is going to be sorting technic pieces, and then I hope to work on a Budweiser style Clydesdale wagon, a pumpkin space station for next Fall’s brick conference and a couple of ideas for displaying LEGO cars.

I already worked from home, but now my daughter is home with me all day and I have less free time. She’s pretty good about letting me work, but as soon as I’m done she has all kinds of pent up energy and wants to play with me.

Has someone written lyrics for this yet?

anyone have any interest in building life for the facebook stream? I had someone suggest it would be a fun way to engage adults or even kids building during the day. wouldn’t have to be very interactive. I had the thought of doing a fundraiser for a build marathon, someone keeps the stream going for 24 hours or something.

it’s an idea anyway. either a one time fundraiser, a daytime ‘learn and build’ or even just a evening/night build event.

Lug HQ is planning on making a delivery of precious goods to McCandless this Wednesday. If there’s anything the northern contingent wants from lug inventory to be productive during quarantining, let me know! I’m fine to leave stuff on porches, or leave things on mine for you. I’m all about taking advantage of the opportunities we have, and if you have a desire to work on some ballasts, mils, rebuild the ravine, the docks, etc, let me know.

I do hope you’re all staying well and staying healthy and happy otherwise!

Tom Frost wrote:

I am interested in set 42110 (How many cups?)

That is an intense model that I did not even know existed. 🙂

Josh wrote:

Lug HQ is planning on making a delivery of precious goods to McCandless this Wednesday. If there’s anything the northern contingent wants from lug inventory to be productive during quarantining, let me know!

Again, since you asked . . . . Don’t know what’s in LUG inventory, but I could use any light bluish gray tile or curved slopes (all sizes) that we have. I’ve made a lot of progress on the “Starship Enterprise” that I’ve been working on for the past year or so, but the “finishing touches” are chewing thru a lot of tile and curved slopes.

I can meet you somewhere in the north if that helps, just text me. Thx!

What exactly was the contest about?

Any Trekkies out there?? This has been on my “list” of MOC’s I wanted to build for some time. While I started this well over a year ago, the addition time on my hands since “stay at home” went into effect definitely helped get this across the finish line. Took a number of iterations to get the profile correct, to figure out how to build and support the dish without the whole thing falling over (or falling apart!), and to build and support the nacelles, but I finally worked all those things out. Still some details that I want to address, but it’s “done enough” now to show and I’m pretty happy with the end result! Beam me up Scotty!

Thanks to @tcsbgdady for loaning me the instruction book from his Mega Bloks model. While it didn’t solve specific issues, it did help generate some ideas. And thanks to @joshhall for the infusion of curved slopes last week, which helped me finish up.

Last one!

Hey Bob, the Enterprise looks awesome! You are going to have to make a sign for shows that says, “It is not a set.”

I can see several structural challenges you had to overcome, especially making a big round dish. Did you use any Millennium Falcon features to make that happen?