This year’s Christmas Lego was set 21309 – Saturn V.
Here is my timelaps build video:
If you fancy your own set, you can grab one here
Tag: Lego
Christmas 2014
As usual this Christmas there was Gingerbread and Lego
Gingerbread
Lego
This was the hardest one I’ve had to build to date.
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.
This years Christmas Lego
I was lucky enough to get another Technic Lego set for Christmas this year. The set was a 8052 Container Truck with container unloading/loading and tipping. Like last years I did another time lapse film of building it.
This year I used my dad’s Canon D5 MKii so the video is 1080p
Christmas Project
I’ve always been a fan of Lego*, Technic especially. As a kid I was lucky enough to get hold of a few different sets to build, some of them can still be found in my old room at home.
On Christmas morning I was lucky enough to unwrap one of these.
The kits have been getting more and more complex over the years this one comes with 4 volumes of assembly instructions
And enough parts to set up a shop.
So come Boxing day I set about putting it all together.
4 Hours on Day 1 and I managed to get through the first 2 sets of instructions
Day 2 finishing off
It was great fun putting it all together and seeing how the tech has moved on. The gear box in the middle of this model that makes it all work is amazing, with just one motor it drives the stabilizers and the crane jib arm.
The videos were made using gphoto2 hooked up to my old Canon Powershot A520 (I couldn’t get it to work with my 350D) to take a picture every 2mins. The images were then resized down to 720p and black bars added before being stitched together with mencoder. I’ll try and remember to do a post about the details later
* Yes that’s right Lego, not ‘Legos’ my American friends, it’s a trade mark and the singular is a Lego Brick. While we’re on the subject it’s Maths, not Math….