“Life In The So-Called Space Age”
Yesterday I went to a hardware store, looked around for a bit, and then asked an employee to show me where the
were. He looked at me a little strangely, and then guided me to the
section…
Then, a little closer to home, I stopped at another store. I did the same thing, and this time the employee didn’t hesitate, and walked me a couple of aisles over to the
display!
And yes, this is a true story 🙂
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
We occasionally get deer in our backyard, but usually they seem to be simply ‘passing through’. So we were quite surprised the other day when we found they are apparently comfortable enough in the yard to use it as their living room…
< Deer me