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Edited June 23, 201510 yr by Ed Mack

16 hours ago, Alpinemaps said:

My son and I finished this today:

Congratulations. It only took you close to two years to build.  

Group effort of me, my daughter and my son....





Two of the three builds from 31044. May try the squirrel next.

Tried the squirrel

built the red creator house

Been working on a UCS MOC for a while but decided to take a break and build Leia. Great little build with great techniques that allow for a number of poses. Will build similar scale R2 next to recreate that iconic scene in a new hope.

built the Grand Emporium

My wife couldn't wait to rip into the Castle. This is 4 bags and about 200 steps in.

Slave 1 completed and added to the UCS ship shelf. 

13 hours ago, Alpinemaps said:

My wife couldn't wait to rip into the Castle. This is 4 bags and about 200 steps in.
 

Castle isn't ready but Mickey moved in  

41091 Mia's Roadster



My daughter built the first micro build, then set this aside. Doesn't help that there's a castle to put together right now.

I'm taking it for myself, lol. I plan on MOC'ing up some parade floats to go in front of the castle and this is perfect for Donald and Daisy to ride in.

built the cindy carriage

built the green grocer

Droid Escape Pod. Better than expected. Now I have an excuse to slice open one of my UCS Sandcrawlers!

built the shuttle expedition

41105 Pop Star Show Stage

Another one my daughter started but I'm finishing (sensing a trend?)

It's a tiny bit modular which is cool.

So, I finally decided to crack open the set after being able to find time.  However, I had to call in some additional help.

"Okay, team.  Grab that thing-a-ma-brick and we'll attach it to here..."

"Okay, Captain. I'm going to give you this injection for space sickness. So hold still. This won't hurt...much.."
"Uh...doctor, are you sure...."
"Shhhhh."

Edited June 30, 20178 yr by TANV

Built the Iron Man vs The Mandarin set 76008 last night.  It was randomly part of a big Friends lot that I picked up for $30 a while back for my daughter.  She finished Olivia's House from the lot and is currently working on the Pop Star Dressing Room and Stephanie's Beach House, so I thought I would go through and see if all of the pieces were there for this one.  Only missing 1(which I had)!  The Iron Man minifigure is pretty sweet, actually....though I am not a SH Lego guy. 

built the black pearl

Having now built this, it's no wonder why Lego haven't released a UCS AT-AT. Despite his being well designed and structurally very stable it was a bit of nightmare putting everything together. I spent almost a day attaching the head onto the body. Biggest build to date coming in at just over 6700 pieces. Hopefully that will be topped by the new Falcon and then my UCS collection is complete with respect of in my opinion all of the iconic ships in Star Wars universe.

4 minutes ago, LahH001 said:

Having now built this, it's no wonder why Lego haven't released a UCS AT-AT. Despite his being well designed and structurally very stable it was a bit of nightmare putting everything together. I spent almost a day attaching the head onto the body. Biggest build to date coming in at just over 6700 pieces. Hopefully that will be topped by the new Falcon and then my UCS collection is complete with respect of in my opinion all of the iconic ships in Star Wars universe.

This version likely would not be considered for a UCS version.  More likely the version done by raskolnikov at 2500 pieces is along the scale of a TLG style UCS version.

Family effort - all four of us put in time with this one. 41101 Heartlake Grand Hotel

Love the modular nature of this.

On ‎30‎/‎06‎/‎2017 at 5:06 PM, lego rules said:

This version likely would not be considered for a UCS version.  More likely the version done by raskolnikov at 2500 pieces is along the scale of a TLG style UCS version.

I've almost finished my Raskolnikov At-At and it probably is the right size and right number of pieces for a UCS version but I am very jealous of @LahH001's Minifig Scale At-At.

I've almost finished my Raskolnikov At-At and it probably is the right size and right number of pieces for a UCS version but I am very jealous of [mention=62871]LahH001[/mention]'s Minifig Scale At-At.

My goal every summer is to have one big build. Last year it was the Nebulon and this year it had to be the At At. This one is based on Cavegod's and includes an interior including a working motorised winch to drop snowtroopers down. Over time will incorporate this into a bona fide assault on Hoth display with Snowspeeders, At-st and a Rebel stronghold. Just need to figure out what to do for next year

built the QAR

Months ago I bought a 30 pound lot from Goodwill and just hadn't had the gumption to open it.  So this weekend to avoid cleaning I started sorting it.  After sorting it looked like the first picture.  I built the first set out of the lot, which was a Raiders Temple Escape.  The only thing missing from the entire set was two of the eight gold coins, crazy.  Already posted it to BL and CL, this would more than pay for the original buy, plus there's some portion of a 6210 Jabba's Sail Barge (all the figs and sails are there) and an Exo-Force Sentai Fortress.  There are also a bunch of Technic instructions, I'll have to see what's actually there.  I'll keep the Sail Barge and sell everything else.