[Misc] Any other old gits build Lego kits?

[Dave the OAP]

Do you glue the pieces together?(can see some in the background).

Yes mate

Basically you get laser cut wood sections, loads of planks and lengths of round wood for masts etc. you also get photo etched parts ( the railing posts in that picture) and metal parts as well as 6or seven bobbins of rope/ twine for the rigging etc

You you start with false keel and shape and model it to put the hull planking ( double planked) on after soaking the planks overnight and then bend them to fit! Yes using all types of glue, wood glue, super glue, epoxy resin glue etc.

It’s good fun but can be very fiddly especially rigging and threading dead eyes etc.

There is a lot of sanding and shaping etc.

 

[Bedsex]

I love Lego too, have done ever since I was a little kid. Here are pics my favourite two. The gearbox on the GT3RS is a piece of mechanical art.

 

[Dave the OAP]

I love Lego too, have done ever since I was a little kid. Here are pics my favourite two. The gearbox on the GT3RS is a piece of mechanical art.

Superb.

 

[southstandandy]

My grandson wants the Death Star from Star Wars for Christmas. When we had a look on Amazon it is currently selling for £995! Yikes. I had no idea.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/LEGO-Star-...IifQ==&sprefix=lego+death+star,aps,227&sr=8-6

Will have to tell him that Santa's fuel bills are also going up at the North Pole and he's a bit strapped for cash this year.!

 

[Dave the OAP]

Btw. Don’t be tempted to buy the Chinese rip offs of Lego!

A mate spent £100 on the Death Star from an online company but when it came, it was missing instructions which included a link to another website for them starting at £300

They look like the real thing but aren’t

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

I love Lego too, have done ever since I was a little kid. Here are pics my favourite two. The gearbox on the GT3RS is a piece of mechanical art.

That orange Porsche sells for a fortune on ebay now!

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Doesn’t look like the Lego I remember

Likewise, the Lego that l spent endless hours playing with, and grew up with as a kid in the late 60's, was unrecognisable from this modern stuff, and far more rudimentary.

Correct me if l'm wrong, but l think Lego is sold now to build specific kits of something, whereas back in the day they just sold Lego building blocks, with which kids could use their imagination, and fashion anything they liked out of them. It was that aspect that l particularly enjoyed.

 

[Mellotron]

My brother in law has the £600 Titanic.

He is understandably terrified of my 4 year old going near it.

 

[Driver8]

Love a bit of Lego.

Some of mine

 

[Wardy's twin]

Likewise, the Lego that l spent endless hours playing with, and grew up with as a kid in the late 60's, was unrecognisable from this modern stuff, and far more rudimentary.

Correct me if l'm wrong, but l think Lego is sold now to build specific kits of something, whereas back in the day they just sold Lego building blocks, with which kids could use their imagination, and fashion anything they liked out of them. It was that aspect that l particularly enjoyed.

You can get both ....

there is also a very good second hand market for it.

yep another another who enjoys making lego either the kits or freestyle. I think both can be creat for kids i.e. can they follow a set of plans and also if they freestyle it then it helps
develop their imagination.

 

[greengull]

dont say you dont know what this is supposed to be...

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

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Yep, still waiting for Lego to give consent on final brick to be positioned.

Make it an explosive brick and drop it from a Stuka dive bomber, that looks suspiciously like the Holmesdown End to me.

 

[The Wookiee]

dont say you dont know what this is supposed to be...
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[Popeye]

Higher now than when I bought it(Got it for 450 bucks) but it was awesome to put together as its still my favorite animated show of all time(Besides Popeye obviously
Unfortunately, I lost the box during the move as I had intended to put it together again at the new house smh, but here is a stock picture:

 

[HHGull]

I follow Emma Kennedy’s Lego build twitter feed, fun with bricks ( she is bonkers)

But I never really got any lego stuff when I was young so I started buying stuff lately.

Fathers day present just finished

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Huge Ferrari….took me months!

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Nice motor bike…took about 2 months.

Still do wooden ships and trams - latest creation…Endurance, Earnest Shackleton’s ship.

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I’ve just built that Panigale. Could you get the gears to do anything? I think I went wrong somewhere!

 

[The Wookiee]

dont say you dont know what this is supposed to be...
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[Dave the OAP]

I’ve just built that Panigale. Could you get the gears to do anything? I think I went wrong somewhere!

I think I may have also had a problem. The back wheels turn and the pistons go up and down, and I thought that was in effect how the gears worked?

 

[HHGull]

I think I may have also had a problem. The back wheels turn and the pistons go up and down, and I thought that was in effect how the gears worked?

Yeah, maybe. The instructions were so pained to point out the correct positions for everything I guess I was expecting more!

 

[Dave the OAP]

Yeah, maybe. The instructions were so pained to point out the correct positions for everything I guess I was expecting more!

I know what you mean

 

[So.CalGull]

Currently in line to be built over the next few months.