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Today in between crapfullness to deal with for work, I finished assembling all my Toy Story Lego ..
Buzz Lightyear to the rescue!!
*I* am your father!
This isn't flying, this is falling with style!
To inifinity and beyond!
A good soldier never leaves a man behind!
Woody's Roundup!
Toy Story Lego!
Two years ago today we left Vienna and headed for Salzburg, wandering around the old town and exploring the fortress, was a great day :)
Got this last week (20% off at Myer) .. built it tonight... :):)
And is this the cutest thing in the universe or what??
Still kicking myself I never got an original Buzz Lightyear in 1995. We got them for Luc and Luc but I never got myself one. Doh!! I did get an original alien tho :)
Epic want!!!
Well after three nights we have it... my latest Lego creation..
It used up pretty much all of my blue pieces. That was why I put the whale and the compass rose there - to try and fill up the space with something other than blue. I was going to put something in the top right corner but nothing worked.
The picture of Australia was from Google Earth. The whale and the compass rose were heavily modified from Google image searches - it's tricky working with so few pixels!
Bigger version on conspiracy.
The picture of Australia was from Google Earth. The whale and the compass rose were heavily modified from Google image searches - it's tricky working with so few pixels!
Bigger version on conspiracy.
Half the reason I'm back into Lego mosaicing at the moment is because of Eric Harshbarger (whose site I recently visited again from a link I have on one of my homepages). Seriously, the dude is my hero.
He's also the reason I discovered Mazaika. The last time I used Mazaika I only had 11000 photos that I gave it to index. Five years later and I could easily give it nearly 100000 photos! (although some of those would be repeats due to resizing).
So anyway it's busy indexing.
Worked some more on the Lego mosaic tonight, and may have finished the bulk of the coloured bit, but Grant and Jen came over to pick up the work phone, so Grant and Stu went and had cigars out the back.
He's also the reason I discovered Mazaika. The last time I used Mazaika I only had 11000 photos that I gave it to index. Five years later and I could easily give it nearly 100000 photos! (although some of those would be repeats due to resizing).
So anyway it's busy indexing.
Worked some more on the Lego mosaic tonight, and may have finished the bulk of the coloured bit, but Grant and Jen came over to pick up the work phone, so Grant and Stu went and had cigars out the back.
During the week I finally finished dismantling the Millenium Falcon.
I swear it took nearly as long to dismantle it as it did to build it!
I didn't actually time it, but it took an awfully long time. The reason being that I wanted to pull it apart in sections as per the manual, so that next time I build it I'll just have a little baggie of pieces for the section I need to work on. This should make it a *lot* faster to build than the 18 hours it took last time.
Here's it all rebagged into baggies..
I swear it took nearly as long to dismantle it as it did to build it!
I didn't actually time it, but it took an awfully long time. The reason being that I wanted to pull it apart in sections as per the manual, so that next time I build it I'll just have a little baggie of pieces for the section I need to work on. This should make it a *lot* faster to build than the 18 hours it took last time.
Here's it all rebagged into baggies..
I thought I'd have a bit of fun with movie maker.....
:)
(YouTube kinda mashed up the alignment of the photo changes to the music a little.. the original 10mb wmv file can be downloaded here)
See the website for the construction of the Lego Millenium Falcon 10179 at http://kazza.id.au/10179/
:)
(YouTube kinda mashed up the alignment of the photo changes to the music a little.. the original 10mb wmv file can be downloaded here)
See the website for the construction of the Lego Millenium Falcon 10179 at http://kazza.id.au/10179/
Lego seem to have *finally* provided the ability to purchase individual bricks in your desired quantity. Pick A Brick lets you choose the colour and style and quantity of bricks, to let you make your own custom model, or let you buy a number of bricks in the quantities you need.
The problem? Well there's a couple of problems. Mainly that it's still hideously expensive. 12c for a 1x1 brick and up from there. (Given that my 1200-piece tubs only cost $35, and that you can get Lego on Bricklink for a lot cheaper).
Also not everything is available. Well that's not surprising given the sheer vastness of Lego pieces designed over the years. But not even all common colours are available for common bricks, just the popular and/or recent ones.
Still it could be useful for my mosaicing to get bulk quantities of some of the rarer colours of bricks. Like "Earth Blue" and "Dark Red". But somehow I think I'll be sticking with Bricklink.
The problem? Well there's a couple of problems. Mainly that it's still hideously expensive. 12c for a 1x1 brick and up from there. (Given that my 1200-piece tubs only cost $35, and that you can get Lego on Bricklink for a lot cheaper).
Also not everything is available. Well that's not surprising given the sheer vastness of Lego pieces designed over the years. But not even all common colours are available for common bricks, just the popular and/or recent ones.
Still it could be useful for my mosaicing to get bulk quantities of some of the rarer colours of bricks. Like "Earth Blue" and "Dark Red". But somehow I think I'll be sticking with Bricklink.