Category: Lego

Lego: Success!

So far, anyway. Built three eighths of a 32 x 32 base plate and managed to fasten it to the pilaster beside my front door.

Four of the velcro type wall click-ons will together ‘carry’ four and a half kilos but I’m more worried about the Lego, This little scene is clicked to the blue background with three plates, all with between 8 to ten studs. Hopefully it will stay up. I’ll know tomorrow morning.

And then there are the four stud wide horizontals anchored only by a single row of studs at their inner edge. Have so far not weighed them down with too much, this is a test piece, after all.

If anything will give up, I’m betting on the base plate. They are such weak bits of plastic. I know, I know … I’m making this one do stuff it’s not designed for.

Using the third of my MILS plate designs did not work, scenes just too hard to install vertcally. I ended up having to take the whole base plate off the wall, and lay it flat, click the scene on, and re-join the velcro.

Lego: Building Sideways

I saw in the stats for this blog that interestingly—some would say co-incidently—the original MILS plate post was once again dug up from the archives.

Due to some house rules I have up to now ignored, I can no longer display my Lego creations on the hall table in the corridor.

I’m hoping there won’t be any complaints if I display on the pilaster beside my front door. Where usually only names and seasonal things are stuck.

Hence now attempting to invent a vertical MILS plate

A first trial vertical MILS plate only partially covered. With a very basic version of men at work starting the build

The question is how much weight I can hang off such a structure keeps me experimenting. Second, how easy or hard will it be to change the displays?

That up there is a thirty-two stud base plate stuck to the wall with five velcro-type fixings. Not ideal as I have already found, as all the places where there aren’t fixings are hard to press down on.

And after being bent in, they bend back and the thing being connected jumps off. It’s even awkward to fix on small plates such as eg 4 x 8s with stuff on them.

I think I need to get a bunch of 16 x16 plates. build on them, and stick them to the baseplate with strips or 2 x 4 plates. Something like that.

While I’m waiting for a postal delivery, I might break out some old ladders from the vintage fire engine and get the characters onto the next level, since at the moment it reminds me of an old fashioned arcade game.

Bosley & Co

The site as it stands. Work has begun on the canteen. Naturally there are some quibbles and quarrels.

Trish wants her cabin up asap.

Boz asks her where with his most irritating logic.

Tim wants to get on with it already.

Dan wants to go salvaging.

Drew stalks around looking inscrutable.

Nin Wizard is agitated and hops here and there with his teacup.

Nin’s younger brother and his crew have almost finished the Stone Dragon Teahouse with just the five of them … a fact Jed points out at least three times a day.

Cat Diary 22

Although we are more or less back to normal, there is a slight flavour of a new normal. For one thing, the old woman still has not tried to pick me up. A good thing that.

For another, she made my puzzle board about six times harder to find kibbles on. Not so good.

Everything is a different height and there is a little person sitting on it staring at me.

Another good thing is that she made more room at the edge of the balcony for me to sit and peer under it at the people passing by. I’m OK with that now.

I’ve been here four and a half months and I think I’ve done pretty well getting accustomed to some of the strangest things a cat has got to put up with. I mean, who has ever heard of puzzle boards for the likes of us?

And do you know, the only time I get a swag of kibbles in a bowl is at bedtime?

Lego, Set #71819

AKA the Stone Dragon

With Bag 7 and the second arm-and-claw, the build is finally starting to look like a dragon.

Also already present are a tray of teacups and teapot in the half finished teahouse; at the base the koi pond already stocked with the fish, and the roots of the fig tree growing through the ancient stone; while in the foreground the rocking platform where the martial arts school will practice.

Three more bags to go.