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Meetup: London AFOLs February 2018

Posted on Monday, 12th February 2018 by Caz
Filed under Meetups / Video

What happens when you give a load of London AFOLs 400 Brick Separators (630) to play with?

400 Brick Separators
400 Brick Separators

This was my pretty feeble attempt – a Romulan Death Fish.

Brick Separator - Romulan Stealth Fish (Mine)
Brick Separator – Romulan Death Fish (Mine)

However, there were some amazingly creative builds from other people – here’s a little selection:

Brick Separator - Building In Action
Brick Separator – Building In Action
Brick Separators - Weird Thing!
Brick Separators – Weird Thing!
Brick Separators - Strange Purple Cow (Apparently)
Brick Separators – Strange Purple Cow (Apparently)
Brick Separator - Dragon Fly
Brick Separator – Dragon Fly
Brick Separator - Bunny & Snail
Brick Separator – Bunny & Snail
Brick Separators - Boats & Insects
Brick Separators – Boats & Insects
Brick Separators - More Boats
Brick Separators – More Boats
Brick Separators - Turtle
Brick Separators – Turtle
Brick Separators - Display
Brick Separators – Display
Brick Separator - Bug
Brick Separator – Bug
Brick Separators - Jon's Spinning Destroyer
Brick Separators – Jon’s Spinning Destroyer
Brick Separators - Jon's Cheesy Grin
Brick Separators – Jon’s Cheesy Grin

And here’s the Spinning Death Wheel in action!

All in all it was a pretty fun evening.

Tagged with 630 / brick separators / jonathan gale / london afols / moc

GBC: Lift & ZigZag

Posted on Saturday, 6th January 2018 by Caz
Filed under Great Ball Contraption / MOCs / Technic / Video

The GBC test day in Caterham went well, and while the Big Bird was being tested, Alistair and I managed to put together another module with the Technic bits I had taken with us. The conveyor is a straight lift from the Bucket Wheel Excavator, with some pins stuck in at regular intervals. The ZigZag ramps were again built from BWE bits, the siding plates from another conveyor forming the bottom surface. I’m quite pleased how these turned out too.

GBC Lift & ZigZag
GBC Lift & ZigZag

When I got home I made a little video of my two modules running together:

Tagged with caterham / gbc / lift and zigzag / youtube

Technic: Bucket Wheel Excavator (42055) – Part 4

Posted on Saturday, 30th December 2017 by Caz
Filed under Technic / Video

Time for another final hit at the Bucket Wheel Excavator (42055) set. Bags 7 & 8 produced the final pieces to finish the model.

42055 Bucket Wheel Excavator Bags 7
42055 Bucket Wheel Excavator Bags 7
42055 Bucket Wheel Excavator Bags 8
42055 Bucket Wheel Excavator Bags 8

And after more hard work, here it is!

I wasn’t expecting the finished thing to be so huge. It barely fitted on my white photographic background foam board!

42055 BWE Buckets Finished
42055 BWE Buckets Finished

And of course, it is motorised, so here’s a quick video showing it in action. The forwards/backwards motion is VERY slow because the thing is so damned heavy, but the conveyors tip rubble into the truck quite quickly.

Tagged with 42055 / bucket wheel excavator / bwe / youtube

Star Wars: Microfighters

Posted on Wednesday, 1st November 2017 by Caz
Filed under Star Wars / Video

I recently dug several of the small LEGO Star Wars Microfighters out of the box they had been hiding in. I’m not sure what to do with them, to be honest. I don’t have enough room to display each individually and they are great for “play” but at my age, I don’t do too much of that!

75034 Death Star Troopers
75034 Death Star Troopers
75072 ARC-170 Starfighter
75072 ARC-170 Starfighter
75073 Vulture Droid
75073 Vulture Droid
75074 Snowspeeder
75074 Snowspeeder
75075 AT-AT
75075 AT-AT
75076 Republic Gunship
75076 Republic Gunship
75078 Imperial Troop Transport
75078 Imperial Troop Transport
75079 Shadow Troopers
75079 Shadow Troopers
75089 Geonosis Troopers
75089 Geonosis Troopers
75161 TIE Striker Microfighter
75161 TIE Striker Microfighter

I realised that I really enjoyed building the models but looking at them? Not so much. Do I decided to rebuild a couple and make a little stop-motion animation of each. First up was the TIE Striker:

Then I tried my hand at the ARC-170 Starfighter. I made the animation a little bit slower this time, which I think worked better.

They kept me quiet for a little while! Anyway, I’m rationalising my LEGO at the moment, so they may get subsumed into the general pile at some point, to be recycled into interesting parts for upcoming MOCs.

Tagged with 75034 / 75072 / 75073 / 75074 / 75075 / 75076 / 75078 / 75079 / 75089 / animation / build video / microfighters / star wars microfighters / stop motion

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