Coast of Araska

Monday, February 23, 2015

Lego Build - S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier – Bag 5 – First Turbine

Agent Maria Hill joins the party, she doesn't like standing too close to Hawkeye

The first engine frame installed, much like jets, the Helicarrier's engine housing ship without engines.

Apparently S.H.I.E.L.D. has opted for vanity turbines

All together now

Lego Build - S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier – Bag 4 – Hull Details

Built two of these, I'm not sure why the #64, I'm sure it wasn't chosen at random, but I have neither the Marvel nor Lego lore to guess as to why.

Here is one, it gives the carrier shape and detail, it could be a little more stable, I've had the centre piece drop out, I'm considering adding something on the back to give it more strength.

You can see that the longer term intention is to cover the whole lower curtain with more panels.

Friday, February 20, 2015

Lego Build - S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier – Bag 3 – video

Lego S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier – Bag 3 – Gears

Not the most interesting looking part of the build, but the hard working part, so here is the contents of bag 3:

Mostly it just builds up and reinforces the hull, a lot of vertical Technique pieces locking the horizontal pieces in place. It gives the main piece a lot of resistance to torsional forces, and flex, so I'm hoping that when complete it will be resilient to play.

Probably the first "wierd" build, this curved piece is clipped on in a way that severe breakage would be the only way to remove it without disassembly, but it ends up inverted to the rest of the studs. Curious if that will get reversed back as we go.

Front view of the same piece:

The real cool part of this bag was the mechanicals for the turbines, they are built to all turn together, either by crank or motor. The nice part about this set is that the Lego Power Function parts are optional, but integrated into the build intelligently. The yellow plate on that central gear casing is the motor mount, and the light grey area in front is the battery box mount. You can see the main axle of the drive crank coming in, and then distributing to the side axles, then out to the 4 mount points for turbines.

If it works I will upload a video of the crank moving the gears.

Thursday, February 19, 2015

Lego S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier Bag 2 – Tiny Tiny Computers

Well the first email worked so well, but this one chopped up and moved all the text, so I'm editing it to set it right:

Here we start bag 2, and a general evening of Lego building with Bryan and Evie. Bryan had a deeply discounted (like 80% off) Hero Factory build, and Evie some mini kits.

First off we have our first Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D Hawk Eye, he gets to wait all lonely for a couple bags for his friends.

Next up I built the computer console area of the bridge, with tiny tiny tiny (my fingers feel like sledgehammers instead of delicate manipulators) computer screens. The designer from the video was right, this was the hard part.

The rest of this bag is a lot of hull structure, there was not a lot of details on the outside, but on the inside is the lower hanger bay, and it is pretty neat. I didn't get that picture, but here is the main hull. It is almost, but not quiet at full length.

Final details on the bridge made it real classy, it needs staff, but they aren't for a few bags:

Lego Build - S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier - Bag 1 ... Fight

I assumed that the general family photo stream wouldn't want to see me build Lego, but I'm enjoying this build and want to get the most out of it. I seem to buy myself on large Lego kit every year or so, and this years is the biggest yet.

So as we open the extreamly large book (8.5x11, and 450ish pages):

Dumping out bag 1 (there are a seeming random number of number bags, in the case of bag 1 there are actually 4 bag 1's.)

The first part of the build is a display stand for minifigures, no one to stand on it yet, but soon:

And while we are building stands, lets build one for the main build itself, for the other sets of done the stand came last, but in this case I suspect that the stand will be a convenient place to hold the boat while I build it: