Grum's Shed

[1gor]

3 minutes ago, grum64 said:

Schools here close for a week over Easter so I'll have some very willing helpers sorting the shed out so I should have space. Should there not be enough room for the Titanic (if I can get one) we do have a large pond 🚢

Our pupils just look how to be activists (to sell fog and live like a king; and do nothing) and no manual labour at any costs...if teacher or professor asks them to solve some task they accuse her / him of violating their basic rights (probably in their heads is laziness one fundamental human rights)

[allanp]

Very glad to see you back and also very well done on completing another big model!

[grum64]

7 hours ago, 1gor said:

Our pupils just look how to be activists (to sell fog and live like a king; and do nothing) and no manual labour at any costs...if teacher or professor asks them to solve some task they accuse her / him of violating their basic rights (probably in their heads is laziness one fundamental human rights)

Thankfully our Sons & Grandchildren have a work ethic to be proud of and although what you say gets said here in the UK I like to think there are many more who prefer to work for what they have and aspire to one day own.

5 hours ago, allanp said:

Very glad to see you back and also very well done on completing another big model!

Thank you. It's great to be back and doing what I love. 

Just spent a really enjoyable afternoon building this, a present from our youngest Grandaughter ❣️.

14 months old and already such a good judge of Lego.😀

[1gor]

Unfortunatelly when they start to work their whole World (illusion) clashes in front of their eyes and what is worse, they usually loose 10+ years of their precous lifes...

on the bright side you had priceless time with your grandaughter

[grum64]

2 hours ago, 1gor said:

On the bright side you had priceless time with your grandaughter

Amen to that 😀

[grum64]

Build Days 1 - 3 / Building Time - 11hrs / Total Building Days 3 / Total Building Time - 11hrs

Hello again my Friends

It’s been a few weeks since my final CAT post but the weeks, like many before them, have been put to good use. As you know the rate at which I build has never been what you’d call speedy but after the 'problems' I had last year what speed I did have was greatly reduced mainly due to associated memory problems. Amongst other things I just couldn’t fathom how to do something the way I’d spent years devising a how to do it (if that makes sense). I was told it wouldn’t be permanent and thankfully time has helped. What has also helped is sitting in the evenings with a large tub of assorted parts and putting stuff together. Nothing in particular, just little assemblies that then get put out of sight and the next evening I either try to rebuild the same assembly again from memory or I try to put something together that I can attach to it. Sometimes I got things right, more often I didn’t but practice, far from making perfect, has helped and my success rate has improved greatly. As a result I’ve noticed my build speed has definitely gotten better so I’m happy about that.

Also the removal of a few models (8461 Williams F1, 8674 Ferrari F1 & 8458 Silver Champion - B Model) and the rearranging of several others means the CAT now has a place on the shelf, albeit a temporary one as there's more sorting out to do. While we were at it, my table’s now been decluttered so the 42110 Defender, 42069 Extreme Thingy & 42064 Tracked Racer amongst other things are now on the newly rearranged shelves so for the first time in a very long while, I have a table with ample space to build on.

As the shelves are again pretty much full it's unlikely to stay that way.

I’m building the 42177 Mercedes Benz G-500 4x4 this time, a set I was given for Christmas and have been eager to get stuck into it ever since which is strange considering I’ve never been much of a fan of the G Wagen but having said that (and I’ve only seen of it on the box, online etc) I really do like how the model looks. It was the same with the 42056 GT3. Loved the model, dislike the 911 (oh, the howls of disapproval…).

Anyway, things started well and then I got to bag two. Opening bag two. Mrs Grum opened the first and was on hand to open the second but no thinks I, Lego uses paper bags now so surely it’s something I can do.

You're probably familiar with the saying about not being able to fight your way out of a paper bag. Well, I couldn't fight my way into one! Honestly, I tried for 15, maybe 20 minutes but try as I might I couldn’t open it and I’m sorry to say frustration got the better of me. With one corner of the bag held in my teeth and my hands pressed hard against eachother to grip the opposite corner I pulled hard as I could & yanked my head round at the same time. Upon reflection the head flailing might have been a tad too much because as the bag was torn open the contents were ejected the length and breadth of my shed. Think farmer spreading seeds and you have the idea. It would appear parts had also made their way out of the open door and into the carport because the next day when Mrs Grum was washing the car she found a Blue Thin Liftarm 1x2 in the tread of one of the tyres. A Black 2x1x2/3 Slope with Grille has gone AWOL, its whereabouts are still unknown. A furkle through the spares tubs produced a replacement.

 

Edited April 26 by grum64
Unnecessary rambling removed / Spelling corrected

[grum64]

Build Days 4 - 6 / Building Time - 5hrs / Total Building Days 6 / Total Building Time - 16hrs

With the unseasonably warm weather heating my shed beyond what’s comfortable to work in building time has been somewhat limited so this is just a quick update.

Progress, I think anyways, has been pretty good with no difficulties to speak of. Even assembling the diff was straightforward. Parts being dispensed where intended helped thanks to my agreeing with Mrs Grum that she open the part bags in future. See, sometimes, just sometimes, I can be sensible. 

Who’d have thought it!

 

Edited May 5 by grum64
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[bruh]

Wow. Very nice presentation, and build. What will it be when finished?

[1gor]

2 hours ago, bruh said:

Wow. Very nice presentation, and build. What will it be when finished?

Mercedes G Wagon 

[bruh]

Oh . I didn’t even realize hahaha! 

[grum64]

Build Days 7 & 8/ Building Time - 5hrs / Total Building Days 8 / Total Building Time - 21hrs

With a few days respite from the overly warm spell it’s back out to the shed to make the most of the cooler conditions.

The build’s still going well with just a couple of minor difficulties one of which became a very time consuming frustration.

This was Step 219, fitting the Light Grey 3L Axle Connector which I just couldn’t keep steadily in place while trying to push the axle into it. The solution, so simple when I think about it now, was to just build a few bricks up to the required height and rest the Connector on it. Done. As I said, so simple. I used the same solution for the same reason (after almost 20 minutes of trying everything else ) at Step 223, getting the axle to pass through the white 1L ‘Spacer’.

I enjoyed building the gearbox, a rather colourful assembly that, had it been around at the time, would’ve been worthy inspiration for a certain biblical garment. The good thing to me, and bear in mind I’m the furthest person imaginable from being an expert on anything let alone gearboxes, is the colours make it easier to follow what each gear does. There’s probably a big announcement or very authoritative article from Lego Group somewhere explaining this as the reason for the multitude of different coloured gears that I’ve missed 

Oh and one last thing. I went to a lot of trouble building the engine. Imagine then the look on my face when, a few pages later, after putting together another pile of parts & found that the resulting assembly was to cover the engine up 

Edited May 11 by grum64

[grum64]

On 5/6/2025 at 3:55 PM, bruh said:

Wow. Very nice presentation, and build. What will it be when finished?

Thank you.

As for what it'll be. My apologies for not replying sooner but it seems my good friend Igor has beaten me to answering your question. Thank you Igor 👍