Other Pete J's thread of Lego building (current project: McLaren P1)

I'm acutely aware that my Lego progress over the last few months has been very poor! This is down to:

• Warhammer 40K
• Mechwarrior 5 Mercenaries
• Gardening (not out of choice, that one)

However, I have the coming week off, in which I hope to complete a little model I started eons ago, as well as an update on a few sets I've bought. Stay tuned.

 

Smol update - A couple of weeks ago, I found a local B&M Bargains with a totally unmolested D&D minifig display.
Missing 3 figures found within 5 minutes. Set now complete.
So, I bought some cheapo minifig display cases from the rainforest.

 

So, instead of doing Lego, I ended up playing Mechwarrior 5 Mercenaries. All week. In some cases, for 16 hours straight.

 

Don't get Clans then

 

Currently building my birthday present from the family...

 

LEGO just announced another sailing ship.
This time it's Ernest Shackleton's "Endurance".

The GWP will be a matching lifeboat

 

So, after a few months lost to Mechwarrior 5 Mercenaries and Warhammer 40K, I'm getting back to Lego!

First up, we have a mostly completed Chestburster that I bought the instructions for a LONG time ago:



Just waiting on a couple of missing bits to turn up - been weird using Bricklink again after all this time. I've also put the shelf up for it this weekend, as well as another shelf for another motorbike...

Secondly, R2D2:



Got C3PO too, so they'll go on a shelf together.

Don't worry, there's a LOT more in the pipeline. For example, I'm collecting bits for a modified McLaren P1...

 

Speaking of 3PO, there's at least one build out there where they've built without attaching the limbs and strapped it to the back of the same scale Chewbacca figure.

 

The little fella's complete!



Here he is in the place I imagined him well over a year or two ago:



Now onto R2D2 and then C3PO...

 

Can't beat alien, nice collection mate.

 

R2D2 and C3PO complete!





Here's the two together:



I'm away from home over Christmas, so don't expect to do any more building for the year. But we'll see...

 

Finished this little model this weekend:



Towards the front, there's an homage to the scene where Darth Vader briefs the bounty hunters:



And here's her resting place:

 

Another one to add to the normal scale motorbikes:





Added on a mudguard, available on Rebrickable. Also added the mudguard to the Ducati:



Ducati's the better model IMHO. The new engine piston design on the Kawasaki isn't as interesting as the age-old design.

 

Started a new project



Annoyingly, I only thought to look for any issues with the build after I started. Turns out that the default Lego gear option goes 1-2-N-3. There's a MOC to correct it to 1-N-2-3 but I don't have one of the gears needed to hand, and I'm feeling too lazy to fix it!

 

More motorbike progress:



Also, Amazon had a sale, so I accidentally:



I've already ordered the extra parts needed for an upgrade...

 

On a whim, I went looking for the Space Shuttle (10283). I didn't realise it'd been retired. However, through some miracle, I found a chap selling one on eBay for £40 less than RRP. And so...



This was actually the second one I bought. Someone else had been selling one which was actually fake Lego: fortunately, they had the decency to let me know before sending it, so I asked to have the order cancelled.

 

Decided to quickly knock out Minas Tirith:



And here's Sauron looming over it:

 

Three of five stages complete:



Really like the way Lego have decided to make a stand to put the bike on: not only does it make building it easier, you can rotate the rear wheel freely to make the engine and gearbox work.

Currently working through a shedload of stickers in the next phase. Unfortunately, I've already got one with a tiny air bubble/bit of dust in it, bt at least it's on one that is away from the camera view (I'll be displaying it in the orientation above).

 

Some more progress today:



Still a lot more stickers to go...

 

BMW M 1000 RR complete!



When this model first came out, I initially decided to give it a miss and wouldn't get into the larger scaled motorbike range. However, when the Yamaha MT-10 SP was released later, I thought "sod it" and managed to pick it up for a decent price. Glad I did, as it was a decently fun build and is more impressive in the flesh rather than looking at photos or reading through the instructions can impart.

Good points:

• Impressive looking model.
• Good build process thanks to the stand.
• Can easily be played with even when displayed on a shelf (thank to the stand again).

Bad points:

• Gears go 1-2-N-3 rather than 1-N-2-3 (but can be fixed with three additional parts).
• Many, many stickers (get those tweezers out).
• Front brake cables can impede steering and should have been restrained a bit better.

I'm looking forward to seeing more bikes of this scale being released, and will be snapping up the recently released Ducati Panigale V4 S once it falls to at least 20% off. Lego has received some flak over the Ducati as it is simply a scaled up version of the V4 R released back in 2020, but I quite like it as it is a nice way to show the increase in detail that can be achieved by upping the scale.

Anyway, now onto the Yamaha, and putting up some shelves to display the bikes...