The will power was strong … or Mrs troll was stood beside you 
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Well, you know that’s not why… 
Close. Her agent, daughter Troll insisted that I put it on my birthday wishlist.
Yes, the pupil outwits the master!
I’m so proud…!
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I have been adding to my collection at a somewhat slow and erratic rate lately, but some progress has been made.
Of the 8 sets here only the 6433 Coast Guard boat and the 6926 have been bought.
The 6480 Fire Truck is from my childhood collection, but was missing the sound piece.
The rest have been pieced together.
The 6926 is an extra to get the 5 parts I was missing to complete the 6892 set. As a bonus it also gave me pieces to complete 2 other sets, one of them the 1580 Lunar Scout.
I got the 6433 Coast Guard boat to get the green transparent slope piece for the 6901 set. I only need 2 1x4 transparent green bricks to finish that. Currently I am using 4 1x2 transparent green bricks instead.
The 6971 Inter-Galactic Command Base. Slightly modified so there is room for the rocket in the hangar. I have taken the white wing from the spaceplane, as I discovered that I had made a mistake and I was missing one for the 6980 Galaxy Commander when I decided it was time to build that.
More to come.
Happy LEGOing
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A couple of my grail sets are in house and nearly complete.
The 926 Command Centre is complete. My number 3 Grail set.
The 6980 Galaxy Commander. My number 2 Grail set (Currently the rear rocket nozzle is white instead of blue, but that is soon to change)
Happy, Happy, Happy!
More to come.
Happy LEGOing
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The biggest sets has been The 10188 Minifig Deathstar and The 6991 Unitron Monorail Transport Base.
10188 That is one big Mxxxxr Fxxxxr!
6991 The Unitron Monorail Transport Base
It is possible to run with the Unitron rail cars on the 6990 Futuron rails, but the Futuron rail cars are to wide for the Unitron rails.
Futuron/Unitron Monorail display tests
I ended up doing it another way.
More to come.
Happy LEGOing
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So much cooool LEGO!!!
The Technic 8480 Space Shuttle
I bought this many moons ago on a flee market, but 1/3 of the pieces where missing, so I stashed it away.
I recently pulled it out of the stash again and added the pieces I could from the stuff I had collected at that point and now I was only missing 1/6 of the pieces. I scraped those together mostly from Bricklink and also a local used goods sale site called dba.dk
Now I only needed to replace the wires. The insulation on some of the old LEGO wires tends to become brittle and break of exposing the raw wires.
In this video it is shown how to replace the wires and he also recommends a good replacement wire.
The recommended wire:
BNTECHGO 24 Gauge Silicone Ribbon Cable Flexible 6P Black 50 ft Flat Cable 24 AWG Stranded Tinned Copper Wire from this site:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PPSKVNN?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1
I do not see myself ever using that much wire, so instead I got this version:
BNTECHGO 24 Gauge Silicone Ribbon Cable Flexible 4P Black 20 ft Flat Cable 24 AWG Stranded Tinned Copper Wire from the same site.
Very easy to work with and fits perfectly.
I got some standard length LEGO wires and did as shown in the vid.
Now it was time to build.
I started with the submarine alternative.
I disassembled that the next day and build the Space Shuttle version, played around with the functions, moved everything to my preferred display position and removed the batteries.
Then it went to the top of the cabinet, where it is on display.
More to come.
Happy LEGOin
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My LEGO display space is at a Premium, so I need to do some compression. (Not expensive, just not that much of it.)
The new Six For One Multifly!
More to come.
Happy LEGOing
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so reminds me of this 
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Luckily it does not break down as easily as that one. 
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Collection status:
A little less than 11 months since I decided to recreate my Classic Space LEGO collection.
I currently have 79 of the 99 LEGO Space sets that I want.
That is 20 to go. This includes 3x 10497 and 1x 10029.
I have gotten all of my Classic Space Grail sets! Yieppie!!!
More to come
Happy LEGOing
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I have more than 17 LEGOLAND/CITY sets. A couple that I really wanted to have and the rest have been pieced together from the brick bins.
Out of the 79 sets I have 32 doubles and 8 of these are triplets. Some of the doubles and triplets are from my childhood collection, that I at first had decided should stay with my parents, but I changed my mind. Others are from buying collections with my wanted sets in them.
I have at least 11 more LEGOLAND/CITY sets to scrape together and I am considering 10 Shell sets, where I need to figure out what can be scraped together. I will also be looking into what else I can scrape together from the bins.
Then there are the other sets that I also have, but will write about at another time.
Happy LEGOing
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I just love that classic aircraft stack!
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His name’s not Luke is it?-)
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I have been doing a little digging in my excess parts bins to see what else I could build.
I had thought about doing it for quite a while, but when Troll got the 609 I was certain that I had the parts for that, so I had to try.
Thank you for starting that Troll
I have started out with construction vehicles as the parts are easily identifiable.
I have when possible used the correct age parts, but some have been replaced by newer versions.
I am taking the digger arm from 1633 to see if I can build the 1876 Soil Digger set instead. 1633 is also almost identical with the 6603 set
There are some wrong coloured parts. The gray joint on 662 should have been red and the warning light holder and bucket holder brick on 6678 should have been black.
I am undecided whether to get the correct colours as I don’t know if I will keep any of them.
The 609 is a keeper though.
Happy LEGOing
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I’m pre-ordering as soon as the VIP bonus week starts in a couple of days. The boy has started showing interest in Star Wars.
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Jeus Christ @DanTDBV - you literally took me down memory lane.
Thank you so much- you made me cry but still.
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Must.
Resist.
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