As usual this Christmas there was Gingerbread and Lego
Gingerbread
Lego
This was the hardest one I’ve had to build to date.
Category: Food
Christmas 2013
Just a quick note to cover this years Christmas activities.
Firstly Gingerbread…
I arrived back up north at my parents to find my Mum had already started in this years gingerbread creations, using a set of molds from Lakeland Plastics.
We even cast some white chocolate antlers
It was pretty good, but using a mold seams a bit like cheating, I had to run up something a bit more freestyle.
Now onto the Lego….
This years set was 8110 Mercedes-Benz Unimog U400
This build was the trickiest yet, with 5 separate instruction books and the parts broken up into 4 distinct sets to make life easier. It took 3 separate sessions to get it finished.
The chassis has Portal Axles to give greater ground clearance and full 4-wheel drive. The motor is linked to a transfer box allowing it to drive a winch, rotate the crane or run a pneumatic pump to power the rams on the crane arm. There is also an extra air line run to the front of the vehicle to drive a second optional model with a snowplow.
I set up my camera and laptop again to capture a timelapse video of the build
The sample rate for the video is one frame every 2 mins and each frame is shown for 0.5 second.
Gingerbread Church
Final Gingerbread House 2011
As mentioned in my last post it’s that time of year again so it’s time. So here is this years creation.
The key point learnt this year is how to make extra strength icing by using egg whites and icing sugar.
Gingerbread Architecture
Last years Gingerbread Christmas Tree was OK, but not up to the standard of the previous efforts. This led me to have a bit of a look round and I spotted this book – The Gingerbread Architect
I started out just getting my eye in with a little Gingerbread Cottage this weekend.
I’ll stick an update online once this years proper edifice is complete.
Gingerbread Engineering
For the last couple of Christmases I’ve been making things out of gingerbread to take round to a friends house for their kids. In the past I’ve done a couple of classic houses,
and last year a train.
This year I decided to try for a structural icing free design for a Christmas tree.
