Tuesday 13 January 2009

My ideas for Lego projects

I have a few ideas that I want to try and turn into projects over the next 12 months or so, and I guess I should list them here so that I don't get sidetracked and forget!!
1. Mindstorms tank.
2. Lego City with trains, streets and buildings etc.
3. Space station.
4. Super Aircraft carrier (This may be made form my Megabloks collection)
5. Battlestar Galactica

The 1st one is underway, and I will post pictures soon so that you can track my progress.

Welcome to my new Lego blog

I have gotten back into building Lego again, and so I decided to start a blog so that friends of mine can follow the progress of the many projects that I will be taking up.
I have accumulated a lot of Lego over the past 30 years, including Space, Creator, City and Technics kits and most of it has sat in plastic crates up until the last 6 months or so.
I really enjoy creating things, and making my brain work to solve problems, and Lego is perfect for this. I am not the artistic type, but I do understand function and usability, and how important they are when you are creating something.
I got a Mindstorms NXT for christmas, and built the few basic projects that they have instructions for, but immediately started thinking of things to build, and decided on a tank as i have plenty of track from some other technic kits, and lots of other parts to make it with. I have only started on designing the tracks for the time being, and I will then work on the clip on body and other features as I go along and time permits.