Photos Latest Purchases Thread: v2.0

Borderlands 3. OHBOY it's gud.

 

It would seem that the main 'box' - for want of another description - is full of oil...

 

Finally decided to upgrade my trusty pc from:
i5 3570K
Mximus V Gene
8Gb DDR3
1Tb SSD
480Gb SSD
CoolerMaster Storm Scout 2

to
Fractal Design Focus G in white
3x Deepcool CF120 RGB fans
Corsair 240Gb NvMe
16Gb Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR4
Asus Prime 450M
TCSunbow 1Tb. (Will use 1Tb from original build)
Anpollo 900x400 mouse mat.

Been a long time since I built a pc. Going to take my time on this. May even invest in some aftermarket cables for the psu.

 

^^ well thats not going to be a Fast Pc, no Cpu included at all

 

Ooops! Bit of a newbie error there...

 

... we haven't got to the stage where you can't leave the CPU out - yet.

 

Whooopsie! Ryzen 2700X to round it off!

 

57 litres, according to the spec sheet. It has a little dipstick and everything

 

Still needs to have the bejeezus RGB'd out of it...

 

All the bike things purchased

Wheeth, confirmed to be round and fit thru axles

Crankset, shimano R565 five arm takes a chainring I found in the garage

Shifters and levers, shimano 105 hydro, not hydras, they wouldn't help me stop

Tyreth, Schwalbe G one speeeeeed (has all the speeds) 35c,maybe I should have gone 38c, I dunno.

Ultegra RX800, and SLX m7000 11-40T cassette, apparently it works and won't kill puppies.

Oh a chain, non kinky also non securing.

No photos due to significant inebriation at present. Thank heck for auto correct.

 

TRUCK YEAH!

 

Hilux?

 

Meat;
2019-09-15_07-29-17 by MrLongbeard, on Flickr

 

Nay, Navara, Tekna trim w/ sunroof, bed liner, roll top and bars. 700 mile 19 plate pre-reg.

I found the Hilux (and the Ranger) a bit bouncy, what with the rear leaf springs. AFAIK the 19 facelifted Rangers have this sussed, but there's no money to be had off those at the moment.
The X-Class was also nice, what on account of it being a Navara with £20k of makeup. But it's the £20k of makeup that put me off that.

 

Ah good stuff. I have a Mitsubishi L200 (2017) Series 5 (?). Wonderful beast of a thing. No "bling" apart from a few base chrome stuff and a bed liner (can't use a rear cab due to awkward loads regularly). Lovely to drive, tightest turning circle of them all, ~800Km from a 70-litre tank. 105,000 Km on her already, since March 2017.

 

Now I'm sober/hungover...

Alexrims GD26 with Novatec hubs - £85 they are OE version of the CXD4's which retail for £320

Shimano RS505 shifters with brake calipers - £200 Retail price £320

Shimano RS500 Crankset (I put the wrong model on here) £49.99 Retail 89.99

Chain, tires the RX800 rear mech and M7000 cassttee all retail prices.

Saving £395 over etailer part prices. Add to this the frame which was reduce due to a couple of paint chips from £675 to £210, thats £860 "saved" so far just by hunting round a bit few more things needed see how close I can get to saving 1£K.

 

So, I was looking at the upcoming Lego 75252 Star Destroyer but decided it wasn't that impressive since it lacked interior detail. However, I've always wanted to have a large Lego model on display. To this end, I've dipped my toes into the MOC world:



All the bricks needed should be with me inside of a fortnight. I'm hoping to finish it before Christmas. I plan to get a few mini scale X-wings, Y- Wings, a Millenium Falcon and various TIE fighter/bomber variants to go with it. I might even go for a 'Trench Run' diorama.

Anyway, I'll start up a thread once I start building it.

 

Wow that looks insane, but from a quick google is it right at it being 2k+??

 

15 thousand bricks isn't a cheap purchase!

 

Oof! The only MOC I've put together was the 400 piece stand for the UCS falcon, and that was enough of a PITA to source and inventory. I can't even imagine the level of effort to do it for 15000 pieces