Much easier than a model plane...
Jan. 11th, 2006 08:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bluegargantuaHi,
OK, so I saw this in the LEGO catalog and I lusted for it in my heart until I finally broke down and bought it last week:
Close to 1000 pieces, over 2' long. It's really spiffy. I put it together over the course of a couple days. The worst part was the decals for the smokestack and the hull. Actually, the worst part is the fact that you have to assemble over 40 containers and then put stickers on both sides and then stack them so most of them aren't visible. Still it's all set and it's really slick. I like it a lot. Now if there were only some scale tugs and dock cranes to go with it.
It's also made me wish that lego would make battleships or aircraft carriers. Those would be a lot of fun too.
later
Tom
OK, so I saw this in the LEGO catalog and I lusted for it in my heart until I finally broke down and bought it last week:
Close to 1000 pieces, over 2' long. It's really spiffy. I put it together over the course of a couple days. The worst part was the decals for the smokestack and the hull. Actually, the worst part is the fact that you have to assemble over 40 containers and then put stickers on both sides and then stack them so most of them aren't visible. Still it's all set and it's really slick. I like it a lot. Now if there were only some scale tugs and dock cranes to go with it.
It's also made me wish that lego would make battleships or aircraft carriers. Those would be a lot of fun too.
later
Tom
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Date: 2006-01-12 02:30 am (UTC)-Yah, the stickers can be a pain . . . there's even a special term for those kind of stickers in the Lego community: STAMP (STickers Across Multiple Parts). I usually just leave 'em off myself (though I carefully clip them to the manual, in case future generations choose differently).
-I need a Lego icon.
heh...
Date: 2006-01-12 02:40 am (UTC)Re: heh...
Date: 2006-01-12 02:09 pm (UTC)Sadly no, but perhaps we could LEGO-CAD one up and get the custom factory to produce it.
We could even have a little drunken captain figure. :)
later
Tom
p.s. We really need to have you over for dinner some night, you're just down the street.
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Date: 2006-01-12 03:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-12 05:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-12 02:07 pm (UTC)Nope, it would've been a real pain. Especially about halfway through when I realized that I'd assembled one of the superstructure bits wrong and had to redo it.
later
Tom
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Date: 2006-01-12 03:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-12 07:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-12 09:40 pm (UTC)Don't even joke. When I was building the central tower, I dropped a couple of pieces inside there. It was like Operation on steroids trying to get it out.
later
Tom