The Lego Star Destroyer Project
(Fact #4: Instruction book: 226 pages)
| The theme for today: Keep Organized! | |
 I'm still counting out the pieces before assembly. | |
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At last, the book calls for the use of the universal Lego block - a two by four! |
| Then it places this block in the most unimaginative place I can think of - oh well, these are building blocks and there needs to be foundation. |  |
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| The frame is now showing the shape and the dimensions of the Star Destroyer. It
is strange as I look at it: it looks like my numerous attempts to make original models with Legos. My
results are always too big and too flimsy to amount to anything. I have faith because I'm doing it by the
book this time. Magnets are being added to the center of the frame; I've looked ahead in the manual and
know what they will be used to hold (the outer shell - ingenious).
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Step 19: Some texture rather than framework, and not a moment too soon. I realize that with the
number of items I'm making, some additional organizing would help. Getting all these items on the model requires
the first full two-page spread to show the placement. Mounting this "texture" puts the placement of my pieces to
their first test, and I pass! All the small side mounted pegs fit perfectly - I'm not required to reposition any
of them. Proof that I can count, at last!
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 This step required the largest number of individual pieces. The "inventory" of the parts numbered over a hundred and fifty pieces. One assembled piece was repeated twice, the other was repeated sixteen times. A wild thought crossed my mind as I assembled all these - randomize some of these parts. I did come to my senses and continue following the manual's designs. Mixing them would have lead to disaster later in the project, I'm sure. |
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 It takes the full instuction manual to show this step. Yowzers!
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| D'oh! | |
Step 19 was completed. I'm happy and ready to move on to Step 20. I turn the
page and stop cold. There is a diagram showing how to attach the two triangular frames. TWO of them. Two? I
just finished making one of them. How did they get two of them in step 20? Turning back to Step 19, I spot
the "2X" in the bottom corner of page 25. Sneaky. Normally a multiplier like that means to make the items on
the page that number of times. This time that sneaky "2X" means I have to complete Steps 1 - 19 again.Time to stop for the night.
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 Ah, rats. I thought I was done with this section. | |
| ...Day One | Day Three... |
