Wow...Lego Model of the HMS Hood

[legion]

http://www.brothers-brick.com/2008/10/12/hms-hood-is-finished/

It's over 20 feet long and build to minifig scale!

[NICKG]

does it have the holes in it already or is there a lego Bismark in the vicinity?

[varmint]

impressive. but would still prefer one of these.

[JavaBrewer]

What a tragic ending for both the Hood and Bismark. Probably way more frightening for the Bismark crew as they got shelled to pieces over a long time. Don't forget about the Yamato - sacrificed with crew to save face.

Nice model.

[herr_oberst]

Wow. Ever wonder if you spend too much time or money on your little hobby? Fantastic work, thoughh

[Heel n Toe]

Holy Moly.



Okay, print this thread out and the next time someone says messing with sports cars is a sickness or a waste of time and/or energy, just hand them the printout.

[Heel n Toe]

There's an echo in here.



herr-oberst, I was typing while you were posting.

[Rikao4]

Legoland in Denmark..
they have a HUGE dollhouse..took 15 yrs to finish.
some of you grew up on Lincoln logs ..
I had lego's..
nothing like these or this..


Rika

[legion]

Legos were my toy. My parents wouldn't buy me toy XYZ that was popular, I just made myself one out of Legos. I can remember making three different versions of the ship from the Last Starfighter between '89 and '92--adding details like the elevators and the secret weapon each time...

[Sunroof]

Anyone here grow up with an Erector Set or Lincoln Logs? Heath Kits or Mr. Potato Head?
Heck, my kids were into Lego's and I was envious!!

Bob

[Robert Coats]

Originally Posted by Sunroof

Anyone here grow up with an Erector Set or Lincoln Logs?

Ha! You were lucky! Why, in my day, dad would come home from a long day at the mill, thrash us within an inch of our lives, and we'd have nothing but dried twigs to play with. In a cardboard box for a house.

[RWebb]

yup to l logs and erector set - latter can be used to make cranes for lifting the l. logs...

Gilbert Chemistry set -- until i graduated to putting together my own little bomb making kits

surprised i never burned down our family house

[austin552]

Erector Set = 2 mch BS, Lincoln logs fun to chew on but legos fit the bill. Friends and I built a 747 nts> Tortured Sis with her Tinker toys.

[DARISC]

I think it would be cool to build an 8' × 4' × 2' 3" Lego brick model of a Lego brick. Right.

When I was a kid I had a big set of Lego sized wooden bricks, red and yellow, with small pegs on their tops, small holes on their bottoms - made in USA, definite precursor of Lego bricks.

Yup, had Tinker Toys (wooden sticks and wooden disks with holes in them) and Lincoln Logs before them bricks. Life was good.

[cstreit]

Man I wished I had tinker toys you spoiled brat.

I loved legos but the Erector Set was the coolest IMO. I had a set with pulleys and the motor with the clear case that you could make moving constructions with.. The consistently fustrating issue was that the set came from a garage sale and didn't have drive belts so I was constantly searching for the right rubber-bands to drive the pulleys... It occurs to me now that if I had mentioned this to my folks, they might have been able to find me some proper drive belts (like large o-rings) and I could have saved a lot of failed projects. Damn my young independence!

[BReif61]

I also grew up with Legos. And I never got the big ticket items for presents, so it was off to imagination land to cook up how to build them with what I had. Ahhh, memories.

If anyone else who grew up with them wants to be frustrated, go check out what they have out now. Remember that one piece that you wish Lego made, because it would be the perfect finisher to your masterpiece, but they weren't produced? They are now. Curse you, LegoMan.

[Aerkuld]

Lego was my favorite toy. I had three or four of the plastic gallon ice cream tubs that were filled with bricks that I would spend hours and hours making things with. I know exactly what legion is talking about, adding 'secret' compartments and extra little trick features. Lego seems to be different now, more detailed/specialized parts with less imagination to them.

You guys need to try to find a torrent on the web. It was a TV show presented by James May from Top Gear about his favorite toys as a kid. I think it was actually called 'My Favorite Toys' but it is pretty good and covers a decent modern history of boys toys including Lego. He did another one about his sisters favorite toys which dealt with girls stuff. Obviously not as interesting as the boys toys but still very funny.

[varmint]

had a ton of them. no one in my house could walk barefoot. back then then had this "no war toy" policy. so i had to build my own little pretend weapons.

the new ones are incredible. i think one of the better things about having a kid would be buying them a garbage can full of legos.

[onewhippedpuppy]

How many months of not having sex did it take for some guy to build that?

I also was a dork with the Legos. There's probably 4 big tubs full of them at my parents house, just waiting for my son to get a little bigger. I also wasn't allowed to play with gun toys, and my parents were too poor for really cool stuff like Erector sets. Legos are probably partially to thank (or blame) for my occupation as an engineer.

[legion]

How is this for dorky:

I remember as a teen trying to make a differential out of the geared Legos. I never succeeded.