Anyone here with an Adult Lego hobby?
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Dad finished Amelia.
Proud to display it at the bay house.
So much detail is buried in these models.
Amelia has a working drive wheel and rooms inside that can barely be seen. The rudder is controlled
by a working wheel in the wheel house.
The Titanic had a working steam engine with moving pistons that actually turned the props.
Off to look for another build for Pops.
Proud to display it at the bay house.
So much detail is buried in these models.
Amelia has a working drive wheel and rooms inside that can barely be seen. The rudder is controlled
by a working wheel in the wheel house.
The Titanic had a working steam engine with moving pistons that actually turned the props.
Off to look for another build for Pops.
Not Lego but Steel tech or (Mecchano in Britain). Recently I've read that Steel Tech is coming back. Some of the Lego sets are mega buck expensive but highly detailed or collectible. Be on the lookout for half and half colored bricks. When they get a new color injected sometimes some of the old color is left behind causing a weird pattern. From a video recently I saw that like mis-stamped money mis-shapen or colored legos are collectible.
Check auctions and oddball locations. After Star Wars wrapped up a guy said he wanted an X wing fighter for display. They delivered a full sized one used in the actual movie on the back of a flat bed truck. You never know.
Good to see that still exists. That's how it was for me -- creating my own things from a bucket of random pieces from the aggregation of different sets, instead of just opening a package and following a book of assembly instructions.
The sets based on licensed IP did rescue the company, and made it largest toy company in the world, are great, but missing that spirit of creativity.
That said, I do have a couple Technic cars waiting to be built. The big sets can get expensive, but I see more value/satisfaction in them than buying a fancy static diecast for similar money. My diecast aspirations are now mostly limited to Mini GT and Hot Wheels, but the I loathe Mattel's distribution tactics, including what they've done to Matchbox. But that's another topic.
For me, LEGO is a casual thing, not a fanatic/collector level interest, which can run really deep, and encompass good/bad things (including targeted theft).
