Millennium Falcon Part 2

[fbhjr]

It was a dark and stormy night, the blaster rang out, the Ewok screamed...

Wait, that’s not it...

Last Week we had started building the Lego Millennium Falcon with a team of Legoeers. This week we had a few less folks working on it, but they were pretty dedicated.

palusbuteo & yebo started it off with the base we built last week.


The next bag of parts was opened and the sorting began.


cosmicirony soon arrived and joined in.


There was a meeting of the crews between the Falcon and another ship that happened past.


Going for the full high tech evening, we ordered our dinner off of the internet while the others worked.


Last week we thought we were past the “little pieces” and most of what was left was bigger sections.
This was not a correct assessment.


The engine strip that runs along the back was very “small part” intensive.


Although ordered on the internet, I did have to drive off to get the food.


Folks did stop to eat, but not for long.


The way the front “forks” of the ship were made was not what we had expected. A very long hinged assembly works, and works well.


Of course, once you build one, you’ve got to build a mirror image one on the other side.


And, again, lots of little parts go into it.


But, it does look good.


We also got out the video conference software (Google +) and had saeble join us.

(Only fair. This whole thing is his idea and he provided the kit.)

One of the problems we were facing was four builders and one set of instructions.


But, we found another set on the internet. And, that let us call up a second set on my laptop.


This doubled our progress.


There were still many, many parts to sort.


Most of the progress made this week was on the bottom side of the kit.


But, we did get the gun ports done.

Although getting the mounted was tricky.


So, it is going to take at least one more night of getting the Falcon together, but we did make good progress this time.

Did I mention it is big?

Comments

[phoenixisrisen.livejournal.com]

Dang.. I hope that box was not marked, "8 years and up"- I can see a little kid giving up on that model!

Great progress!

[palusbuteo.livejournal.com]

*squee*

Impressive. Most impressive.

As exhausting as it was, this session was a lot of fun, I think I found it more exciting once it really started to look like the Falcon.
It's really something to see how creative Lego was in figuring out which parts to use and how to angle everything to closely match
the outline shape of the ship.

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

We had an artist in his 30's and engineers in their 40's, 50's and 60's working on it.
And, after 2 nights of work have not finished it.
I'm not saying someone under 8 couldn't do it, but it would take a lot of time and patients. Not always common in the under 8 crowd.

[chris-warrior.livejournal.com]

that's crazy. and awesome. :)

[phoenixisrisen.livejournal.com]

Oh, what I meant was, in the corner where they put the "age appropriate" recommendations... I really cannot see an 8 year old doing well w/it at ALL! That was what I was trying to say....

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

Sorry, but the box says 16+...
http://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Ultimate-Collectors-Millennium-Falcon/dp/B000WLW3W0

[evrgreen.livejournal.com]

Very impressive, in many ways!

The sad part will be having to take it all apart again (and bag the pieces to the various subsections?) to ship it off to the next team?

[endlessblush.livejournal.com]

it's really looking great Frank and I love how you've turned it into a great social night/s with friends.

[codemancer.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I wanna do this with some friends! Looks like a TON of fun :)

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

That was Saeble's whole point. I'm glad it is working so well.
My group of friends was getting together once a month for game night, but we were saying we should do something else too. This worked perfectly.

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

Get in touch with Saeble. He's trying to set up a world wide network of folks to loan Legos and let them do this.

[cissa.livejournal.com]

I'm looking forward to next time!