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(...) UUUUUhhhhhh........ oookaayy..... Dave. (22 years ago, 7-May-02, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) But now TLC has started breaking up the parts into sequentially needed bags (see, e.g., 7153) so the number of parts with which you must deal at any one time is substantially less than the total number of parts in the set. (...) This also (...) (22 years ago, 6-May-02, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build)
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9...... (Sunday was 10, but I was busy.) -Mani :) (22 years ago, 6-May-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Why dump the parts out of the bags? Usually, the parts are organized *mostly* by size -- all the smallest parts in one bag, all the biggest parts in another bag, and then everything in between going whereever it goes. Once you learn which bag (...) (22 years ago, 6-May-02, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build)
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(...) Yeah, that's often what I do for large sets. I won't quite *sort* the pieces so much as empty out the bags into seperate piles. And since all the X pieces in Y color come in a single bag (usually), it saves actually having to *really* sort the (...) (22 years ago, 6-May-02, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build)
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My thinking here is that there is a polynomial or even exponential time function at work with large sets. The more parts a set has, the greater the fraction of total build time is spent looking for a particular part. The way to decrease that (...) (22 years ago, 6-May-02, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build)
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Annoyed to no end or mercy by Zam Wessel's disbehaving cockpit, I made a small modification to keep it shut. It's small and painless, and still lets you open it when you want (as opposed to rubber bands). You need 2 (well technicially 3) pieces: a (...) (22 years ago, 5-May-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) 2 1/2, and thats it? :) I don't have the set, but that does seem a little sluggish :) It certainly looks more fun to build than the UCS X-Wing, which I have built. I'll really have to wait and see till I get one (key word there (...) (22 years ago, 5-May-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Really cool, Kai. I've had my Gunship for a week now, and finals have been keeping me away from doing what you did. All of this year's sets seem to suffer from the same swiss-cheesiness problem, and it's good to see the holes filled in. One (...) (22 years ago, 6-May-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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Well, I went and did it. I took the Republic Gunship and made it somewhat more accurate to the movie version. This one was a doosey. I am awaiting some parts so I can finish off the engine. I also used some bleeched white parts to give it that tan (...) (22 years ago, 6-May-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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Took me ~8 hours total; had I worked straight through, blindness would have resulted. Would have been done sooner had I not used a wrong shade of grey early on. Finished the 'hammerhead' in ~2 hours then went to FL for the Orange Bowl. If you think (...) (22 years ago, 6-May-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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I've started doing these again - very silly. Sorry. Here is this week's instalment. If anyone wants me to stop, just say the word! There's a Star Wars connection to my first offering, so I've posted it in two places. (URL) (22 years ago, 5-May-02, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) I bought it a little over a week ago at around 9pm at a TRU. Got home and started it at 9:30pm thinking "Well, the other UCS sets took me roughly 3 hours, so I'll still get to bed not long after midnight." I worked pretty much non-stop on it (...) (22 years ago, 5-May-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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Yes, but it did take 5-6 hours and I couldn't see straight after I was done :) Ken (...) (22 years ago, 5-May-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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I just spent two and a half hours working on the RBR I got at Target on Thursday. And I only finished the front hammer-head section. And I had to stop because my eyes were hurting. Is it just me. I'm no master Lego builder, but I've put together (...) (22 years ago, 5-May-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) (URL) Ron's hair? Who woulda expected to see that nice Harry Potter boy and his friends hanging out with all those battle droids. . . (What you really can't see in the picture is the Wolfman on the top row, left hand side. Someone had a lot of (...) (22 years ago, 5-May-02, to lugnet.events, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Event pictures: (URL) here are the extra parts from the AT-AT for ya: (URL) (22 years ago, 4-May-02, to lugnet.events, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) PIC-TURES! PIC-TURES! (...) Only "well over an hour"? I reckon that pretty much shatters my best record ;) PIC-TURES! PIC-TURES! -s (22 years ago, 4-May-02, to lugnet.events, lugnet.starwars)
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Hey everyone - Sorry no pictures yet!! But I just got back from Star Wars CII. Ondrew Hartigan and I drove down from Chicago for the day to meet up with Tim Saupe, that was a real treat seeing him in person after getting to know him pretty well (...) (22 years ago, 4-May-02, to lugnet.events, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Thanks for posting them at least...I haven't gotten it, and was wondering what the fuss was about. Actually, I am not jealous at all about not getting it... I guess I am not really a big star wars collector... the only real starwars sets I got (...) (22 years ago, 4-May-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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