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Edited June 23, 201510 yr by Ed Mack

Built this over the past week.  The Speed Champions set was a fun build and was moderately sitckeriffic (20).  I love the look of the BrickHeadz!  The Defense of Hoth set will go well in my battle scene build.

Another snowy day so I finished the Dodge set. I wanted to complete all of the 8 studs before the next batch come out March 1st. Ranked best to worst from the front then left to right. Now to go shovel for a few hours and get back to finishing the Hogwarts Icons set. 

3 hours ago, Pseudoty said:

Another snowy day so I finished the Dodge set. I wanted to complete all of the 8 studs before the next batch come out March 1st. Ranked best to worst from the front then left to right. Now to go shovel for a few hours and get back to finishing the Hogwarts Icons set. 

 Vette is the worst?

 

1 hour ago, Pseudoty said:

You said “shovel the snow”, not “play in snow”

1 hour ago, Pseudoty said:

fail for not rolling the cars so there is a track of snow behinds the wheels...these look like the cars got "Stuck" in the snow.

just giving u a hard time...pics are great.

44 minutes ago, Lordoflego said:

 Vette is the worst?

 

You said “shovel the snow”, not “play in snow”

The Dodge dragster, hidden length wise in the back, is the worst. The Vette build was good but it just seems unfinished and looks off. They are all good and blow away the 6 studs, but compared to each other I would give the dragster a 5, Stingray vette, Challenger and Uris a 6, Mclearen and Ferrari 7, Jag Formula E, Supra and Audi an 8, all the rest are 9 except the GT and Lambo are 10.

 

I did shovel and will have more to do tomorrow but need some fun time too  

ETA: and will take new pics with tire tracks  

 

Edited January 29, 20223 yr by Pseudoty

i built the creator tiger and crocodile sets over the weekend.  

for reasons i can't put into words, these sets appeal to the lego purist in me.

they were quick and interesting builds. the tiger has several sections that snap satisfyingly with a "click" when put together. 

i am thankful lego put the time and effort to make some actual printed wedge tiles for the tiger set forming the top of the stripe pattern that are critical to the set but could have been ruined with stickers.  

 

 

The Dodge dragster, hidden length wise in the back, is the worst. The Vette build was good but it just seems unfinished and looks off. They are all good and blow away the 6 studs, but compared to each other I would give the dragster a 5, Stingray vette, Challenger and Uris a 6, Mclearen and Ferrari 7, Jag Formula E, Supra and Audi an 8, all the rest are 9 except the GT and Lambo are 10.
 
I did shovel and will have more to do tomorrow but need some fun time too [emoji6] 
ETA: and will take new pics with tire tracks  
 

I actually thought I would hate the dragster, but I appreciated the unique build technique. I don't really like the Lambo SUV so that's probably my least favorite with the Supra a close second.

Looking forward to the new Countach, though. The new lineup looks really nice.

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40476 Daisy Duck

75319 The Armorer’s Mandalorian Forge

Finished this up last night, first from the lot I grabbed last week. Great set. Will do the Black Pearl today, just got the parts in the wash. 

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Waiting for the new Speed Champions 

15 hours ago, Pseudoty said:

Waiting for the new Speed Champions 

Excellent sticker placement!

I have started rebuilding my town & I'm switching to the new road plates & the mils system. I got my built sets moved to the new mils plates & I'm undecided on the sidewalks. Should I go dark grey walks (second pic) or light grey (third pic). I had dark grey & a light curb with the old plates. Most modulars come with dark grey walks too. The light grey seems to offset the new road plates better though. Any thoughts? 

I added the white line to widen the road plate a bit. It's narrower than the old plate. I do like them better than the old plates. 

49 minutes ago, marcandre said:

I have started rebuilding my town & I'm switching to the new road plates & the mils system. I got my built sets moved to the new mils plates & I'm undecided on the sidewalks. Should I go dark grey walks (second pic) or light grey (third pic). I had dark grey & a light curb with the old plates. Most modulars come with dark grey walks too. The light grey seems to offset the new road plates better though. Any thoughts? 

I added the white line to widen the road plate a bit. It's narrower than the old plate. I do like them better than the old plates. 

You may get some MILS tips from Bricksie on YouTube he is redoing his city in MILS and has a few videos on the process and color matching the modulars. 
 

I worked on this mess today. 

2 hours ago, marcandre said:

I have started rebuilding my town & I'm switching to the new road plates & the mils system. I got my built sets moved to the new mils plates & I'm undecided on the sidewalks. Should I go dark grey walks (second pic) or light grey (third pic). I had dark grey & a light curb with the old plates. Most modulars come with dark grey walks too. The light grey seems to offset the new road plates better though. Any thoughts? 

I added the white line to widen the road plate a bit. It's narrower than the old plate. I do like them better than the old plates. 

I like the LBG vs the DBG personally. Contrasts with the road.

I love the MILS system, and once I actually start building things out here in the new house, I will be doing everything with a MILS base.

53 minutes ago, Alpinemaps said:

I like the LBG vs the DBG personally. Contrasts with the road.

I love the MILS system, and once I actually start building things out here in the new house, I will be doing everything with a MILS base.

You're right. I just did an intersection with light grey walks, looks nice.

Start hoarding bricks now for mils. Just a couple plates eats up hundreds of bricks in minutes. 

Built this while now waiting until 3/3 to get the new Speed Champions 

just built this one.  I know the set doesn't get a lot of love but I hadn't built any truly TECHNIC since coming out of dark ages and wanted to make sure I still enjoyed the process before moving on to some larger builds in my backlog.

48 minutes ago, zaphoid said:

just built this one.  I know the set doesn't get a lot of love but I hadn't built any truly TECHNIC since coming out of dark ages and wanted to make sure I still enjoyed the process before moving on to some larger builds in my backlog.

I swear, I think that the Blue sports car that was sold with the Auto Transport was a reject Camaro. Ive found myself leaning more Technic the past few years, If youre into cars, the 911 RSR and Ferrari 488 GTE are nice builds.

[What LEGO Set Did You Take Apart Today] 

This is my counter to the thread topic; otherwise I will never get to post on it

Took apart the NES set I got off Ebay...Man o man...it's really cool...built like no other set I've taken apart😋; really special set and obviously a big deal for Nintendo fans (so glad I got this one for my personal collection).  So realistic looking console. 

I used to be a "purist" and typically broke "everything down to the studs" (I've had some EPIC breakdowns over Ninjago City, Joker's Rollercoaster, UCS Sand Crawler, All the major recent Modulars like Assembly Square... but I've softened a bit and on this set I kept all the screen pieces as is...and some panels w/ a zillion 1x1s...that's neither fun to take apart or build..IMO).

Anyhoo also recently too apart The "UCS" Guardian Ship (lots of cool adjusting panels as it should be w/ a ship like that)...I still have a couple PetShops on my immediate backlog.

This was a very challenging build in comparison to all of the other previous Speed Champions sets. Then I noticed that this one is 9+ while most of the others are 7+

 

3 hours ago, Pseudoty said:

This was a very challenging build in comparison to all of the other previous Speed Champions sets. Then I noticed that this one is 9+ while most of the others are 7+

 

I’m assuming tires don’t have stickers? Those r printed? Either way (and all I got is comparison to regular cars), it’s strange how the word “pirelli” isn't curved to the shape of tire, like other words/markings are. 

3 minutes ago, Lordoflego said:

I’m assuming tires don’t have stickers? Those r printed? Either way (and all I got is comparison to regular cars), it’s strange how the word “pirelli” isn't curved to the shape of tire, like other words/markings are. 

Anytime you're working with trademarked logos you generally aren't allowed to alter them, probably the same way on the ones on vehicles as well, just sticks out more on something of this scale.