Other Pete J's thread of Lego building (current project: Brick-Built Star Wars™ Logo)

A quick future projects update:

NASA Space Shuttle Discovery with fuel tank, boosters and launch pad



Some nice chap has designed all this to attach the Shuttle to. Will be a nice large scale project to tackle.

LEGO Redemptor Dreadnought



This'll go nicely with my old skool box dreadnought.

I've added the parts to my Bricklink wanted list, and interestingly, the huge amount of extra parts means I'll be buying from the large scale part providers, dramatically reducing the overall cost.

Stay tuned...

 

Orange box progress:



Continues to be a really fiddly build. A few times I had to take my cotton gloves off as I needed all my dexterity to get some bits in position. It's rare that I have to do that, and this model in particular has probably now had me do that more times than all the other builds I've done to date combined.

@Gunsmith since you're back on the forums, I saw this and thought of you:



The chap who designed it is the designer of the Redemptor Dreadnought I plan to build, and also has a few other Gundam models of the same quality. Here's his page with links to instructions.

I'm not a Gundam fan (though I don't dislike it either!), but I'm tempted to build them.

 

I never left

yeah I've seen a few, i did enjoy dabbling with lego again during covid but tbh im not a fan of new style technic nor do i have the space for them along with all the mecha kits im building. interesting watch tho.

 

Did you ever build the green Land Rover? If so, how does it compare to this model?

 

Look here, chap!

Also, jb70, a renowned MOC designer who takes standard Lego designs, improves them, then releases the instructions for free has done an upgrade. If that had been available at the time, I would've gone down that route.

I think that if I had to choose between the two, I'd go with the Land Rover. However, the G500 is shaping up to be a bit more "playable" thanks to stiffer suspension and a more robust gearbox (even though it has less gears).

 

Ta for the links, I've placed an order for the MOC parts, as I was never happy with the gearing and I think, despite carefully aligning the parts when combining front to back, something didn't quite line up. It's been sat built for a wee old while. It'd be a nice weeks-worth of rebuild, too! I'm hoping one day Lego do an official green Murcielago as a big set as tbh I've never heard of the Sian.

 

A bit more building:



And done!



THE GOOD

• Suspension is really bouncy
• Sturdy
• High playability
• Working door handles
• Interesting axle locking features

THE BAD

• One of the more fiddly builds I've done
• Gearbox is simplified compared to the Landy 42110
• Hidden engine (though cover can be removed relatively easily)

And now for the next project:



Picked this up for 20% off earlier this week! And no, I don't know why it's rated "18+".

 

Where can I get basic 4x2 bricks from without it costing me my knackers and at least one of my legs. My grandsons have got loads of little kits that are useless for building anything else. I had a football bag full when I was a kid of all basic shapes, which I gave to my nephew 30 years ago and he no longer has it.

I got a box of basic fake lego from home bargains last week 450 pieces for 5.99. I knew it wouldn't be 450 of the big bracks but when we opened it there were 224 single 1 dot bricks. In the whole box there were only 9 4x2 and 10 3x2. Took it back and have let Home Bargains customer service for their buyer thinking that was even close to acceptable to sell that crap.

My grandson never complains and he looked at it and said, "that's a bit rubbish isn't it Grandad", when he saw the amount of those 1 dot bricks.

Mrs bought a couple of lego 'classics' tubs and even with her 25 quid off a 50 spend, they are still pretty crap value for money. Literally an inch of lego at the bottom of the tub.

All I want is to find somewhere, even second hand, to get 2/300 decent sized bricks. Colour irrelevant. Also looking for a couple of decent baseplates for them to build a house or something.

All lego seem to do now is peddle these pointless
expensive kits which are no different to an old airfix model. Don't exactly help kids with their imagination.

Anyone point me in the right direction ?

Ta.

 

Ebay can probably help out massively. Otherwise, Bricklink's the way to go. Looks like a penny a brick!

https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=3001#T=S&O={"cond":"N","iconly":0}

 

Legend Thank you. I'll take a look for him

 

Thought this was a nice little video:

 

Can we have a petition to encourage Lego to switch from stickers to Airfix style wet float graphics please

 

To sodding wet to work in the garden, ride or build Ikea furniture, so finished this before the UK F1 leg @ Silverstone;

PXL_20250706_110603276 by MrLongbeard, on Flickr

 

Couldnt resist these little cuties...


EDIT: Please excuse how dirty my desk mat is... ewwwwww.