Building Lego

Mr.M · August 18, 2022, 5:30pm

Had a lot of fun adding these little characters to the Lego family.

Ardbeg10y · August 19, 2022, 6:13pm

Mr.M · August 31, 2022, 9:52pm

johns · September 2, 2022, 3:35pm

Maybe you should add that to the management speak thread…

Mr.M · October 5, 2022, 4:21pm

Finally got round to putting this together, done mostly whilst on work calls through the day!

suzywong · October 5, 2022, 4:35pm

And some I made earlier:

Saturn V, Falcon Heavy, Titan 34D (all to the same scale)

New thread perhaps: “Show us yer lego with Naim”

suzywong · October 5, 2022, 4:53pm

And updating a previous photo:

Singapore now lit. Tokyo added and lit.

Little Joe 2 at rear left (continuing the rocket launcher pics)

Mr.M · October 5, 2022, 5:01pm

I saw the new Lighthouse set in Legoland the other day, quite tempted to add that to my set list.

suzywong · October 5, 2022, 5:30pm

Now that I like, especially with the lights. Price is a bit steep. OTOH it’s nearly Christmas.

anon70766008 · October 5, 2022, 7:22pm

Excellent! Which College did she go to?

Graham (Merton, Jurisprudence, 1975/78)

suzywong · October 5, 2022, 7:25pm

Lincoln…….4 year Masters followed by a PGCE. Mum & Dad’s bank balance has since recovered, especially as her sister was at Exeter Uni for three of those years!

anon70766008 · October 5, 2022, 7:40pm

You clever chaps and chapesses, who are so good with your hands, should really get yourselves to the Maritime Museum in Greenwich to see John Harrison’s extraordinary original marine chronometers (called H1, H2, H3 and H4). They are amongst the most beautiful and intricate things that I have ever seen. (While you’re there, you can see the original brass 0’ longitude marker.)

If that piques your interest, get hold of Dava Sobell’s wonderful book, ‘Longitude’ which tells the story of their making, falling into disrepair and rebuilding. (I posted a much longer thing about all this on the ‘Watch’ thread in the Padded Cell a couple of weeks back.)

maison00 · October 6, 2022, 10:58am

I have been building with Legos my entire life, and now enjoy building “princess castles” with my 6-year-old daughter. What a wonderful toy/hobby they have been. Some folks build model train sets, but when I was about 12 I had a piece of plywood on sawhorses in our basement and my brother and I built an entire Lego “kingdom” with probably around 50,000 Legos we had been collecting for nearly a decade. My mother still has all of those Legos in her garage in sorted plastic bins, and my daughter will have them soon.

As for Harrison’s marine chronometers, there is a fascinating account of their invention as part of Simon Winchester’s book The Perfectionists, which is something of a selected history of the art and science of precision engineering. It is a great read!

There is also a great documentary on the history and impact of Legos. I can remember the name, but search “Lego” on Netflix or Prime Video and I am certain it will pop up. It is worth watching just to see some of the creations people have come up with.