I have begun bulding the Lego Death Star II model I received for my birthday. Since it is expected to take several weeks, rather than chronolog the entire process, I will instead save the pictures until it is complete. However I’ll take the chance now to describe the early stages…
Here’s what the packaging looks like. Inside the large box was the spiral-bound manual and 4 smaller white boxes, each of which contained a dozen or more plastic bags of pieces (about 3500 pieces in total):
Notable is the fact that unlike the previous ‘ultimate collectors edition’ kit I assemlbed (the Star Destroyer) the bags are not numbered, and the pieces are not bagged in assembly order. So by the end of the third page in the instructions I had already opened a dozen or so bags.
Much of the time taken so far is simply finding pieces in the seemingly endless sea of gray 🙂
< Every piece, bagged
Luckily, I have an assistant:
< Imperial Construction Supervisor, Yossie
The first part built was the stand, and now I am well into the construction of the outer ring. This final shot shows progress at just over 4 hours total build time. As I said, further details (including many photos) will wait until this beast is finished...
< After about 4 hours