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Built the AT-ST. Very detailed and compliments the UCS AT-AT nicely. Canabilized the Probe Droid stand for the Snowspeeder. Probe Droid is now a parts pack.

Isn't ***** eye all about fashion? "I saw a $1000 coat (featuring $50 of cloth) at Gucci yesterday. Kinda made my blood start to boil." "Some people have too much money."

Man, Time marches on. 8 months since the last post. I’m going to focus on the happy fact that it doesn’t look exactly the same. As opposed to focusing on the unhappy fact that it’s not as far along as I would like! Here’s where we sit today. Next step is to build the plywood riser for the back portion that the trains run under. Cross your fingers on that happening next week!

On work travel from Iowa to Washiongton and visited the Boeing store. I've ordered online from them before but this was the first time seeing it in person.

Heartlake City Vet Clinic #41446 at Sam's Club. $12.81

Hmmm, weird sorry guys. Usually I see that too...but this time it was straight up $68.49 shipped for me - no store pickup or local delivery, so I thought it would be the same for all. Apologies.

It’s an IKEA Meltorp. 29.5 wide, 49.25 long, 29.125 tall. They also sell a square version. 29.5 W and L. I have six for our Lego city. Just a smidge small for an even number of base plates, but since they’re all on Mils plates it’s cool. Cheap too And while we’re on the subject of things I like for building Lego, this little number is the sweetest. Almost makes dusting fun

That’s great about getting into shape. I just got back from the gym. It does make you feel better!

https://www.brickfanatics.com/vincent-van-goghs-the-starry-night-painting-is-being-turned-into-an-official-lego-ideas-set/ pretty stoked this got approved I feel like the recent "2-D" art sets from LEGO have been seriously lacking and tries to do what LEGO is not (2D). This set brings what LEGO offers to a new motif...this one is classic, recognizable and very well done. If it takes off so many more possibilities in the "fine art" theme

Lawsuit filed over a coat in this set https://www.avclub.com/lego-is-being-sued-over-a-tiny-plastic-jacket-in-its-qu-1848369726 Some of the comments about Lego are amusing. I forget that the majority of people are clueless about Lego... I saw a $100 star wars set (feat. ~$5 of plastic) at Target yesterday. Kinda made my blood start to boil. Some people have too much money.

Yar! https://www.amazon.com/MECO-Keyboard-Cleaning-Rechargeable-Cordless/dp/B0775T6VXQ

i’m a very skilled builder, with a full professional shop, (I welded up a custom build table for Pete’s sake) and after many iterations this was the highest quality/cheapest solution. The tables are very sturdy. I considered putting a piece of half-inch MDF on the top to fix the “little bit too short“ problem, but it was unnecessary.

Reverse build. Closing down the winter Village for the year

Here she is with Bruce and the E street band in the background And throwing in another good cover

no hurry; will be available for another year or two current aftermarket prices are down 15-20% off RRP will it do well post retirement? reasons yes: iconic star wars, unlikely to be remade AGAIN for at least some time reason no: no exclusive MF, for a $200 investment...can probably do a lot better. it's a large box so storage and shipping will be a hassle look at past 2012 version where RRP of $150 it hit max of $350-400; pretty good

Just finished the sitcom tower that's on rebrickable. Wanted a way to get Seinfeld into my modular city. Love how it turned out.

A 1992 GTA is my dream car.

Sams Club ( Walmart’s version of Costco ) Mario 2 in 1 Superpack 66677 $20 clearance. Basically 71360 + 71393 combined. Scooped up a few. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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I build the set and apply the stickers after using a weighted long tipped Xacto Knife. Sometimes I will have to disassemble a few pieces to reach and get things aligned up properly, but doing it this way you can place the stickers so they display best which is not always centered as seen above. If it is just 2 stickers I have them touching but when it is 3 in a row I try to center the middle and have the ones on the sides as close to the middle sticker as possible if that makes sense. For concave and convex elements I will use eyeglass spray cleaner to wet the element first and then align it. For translucent stickers I will always clean the elements first with the eyeglass spray as fingerprints show through, and for translucent stickers on translucent elements that are highly visible I will wear nitrile gloves and use the spray. If I am being my usual OCD self I will try and apply them as close to reality. On the Ford GT lego uses 2 stickers for the front grille air intake with an orange gap in between. Sometimes vehicles do have a splitter in the body color so you want that gap but looking at the real GT it is not there so I aligned the 2 stickers touching and along the bottom edge of the elements. Lego shows them centered which looks nicely aligned but like arse to me. Probably a lot more than you wanted to know, and this adds a lot of time to the build but the results are more realistic. https://www.walmart.com/ip/X-Acto-No-1-Precision-Knife-Z-series-with-Safety-Cap/21778184

21226 Art Project I built this with my daughter twice. Once for the 3x3 art design and once for the classic spaceman. I wanted and kept the spaceman and she kept hers with the 3x3 art. Started with the 3x3 art, this was one of her Christmas presents. She'd loved making art patterns when she was aged 4-6 with 1x1s of all varieties so now as she is going on age 9 I thought she'd really love this art project and she did. It was fun enough I found a 2nd one at Target locally next to the Lego clothes in the clothes section. So glad it can be built little by little, I thought this project would drive me nuts. But I was able to commit to one panel at a time for like 15-20 mins per panel and stage it out when I felt like it and no rush. NOT interested in the World Map! Ha, after two of these I think I'm done placing 1x1 tiles for a while. Edit: Okay kind if interested in the World Map but wow it goes from 3x3 panels in this project to 5x8 panels in the World Map. That's 31 additional panels!

I think it's great. Never seen the show though so I'm not sure of investment potential. I'll get a set & drop the minifigs into my modular city. My town lacks diversity.

Ah, bitcoin...I bought them years ago at 2 dollars, then sold at 8 last summer. Thought I was a genius, turns out I was a fool. Price chart: http://bitcoincharts.com/