So I was able to finish the build this past weekend.   Once my friend Roger comes down in April, he will take much better pics.  I will break it down more at that time into each of the sections that comprise the top coverings.

So I was able to get a couple hours in this past weekend. I am super swamped with work and used it to clear my head a couple times. I basically finished the underside of the Falcon. I have included a couple pics of the turret which has quite a few pieces.  The top turret [...]

I actually don’t know exactly how much time I spent on it this past weekend — I am just taking a wild guess.  I was doing a number of things in between while building it — mainly MySQL loads on my laptop which is crazy slow compared to my production servers — I guess I [...]

Here are a few more pictures of the sorting process.  It took me a couple more hours, probably less if I did not run out of bag and have to do a little rearranging of the bags.   I have finished the sorting I am going to start the building process.  The last pic is that [...]

So I spent a little more than an hour tonight, but I was interrupted a few times, so all in all it ended up being a like an hour and 15 minutes.  The story for tonight is more sorting.  I think I have probably another 3 hours of sorting to do, which I may knock [...]

So I got quite a bit more sorting done tonight.  I also discovered that a few of the bags were the same, so once I started coalescing the similar bags, I gained quite a bit of traction.  My sorting routine is as follows: Find the similar bags with similar parts. Sort the pieces in each [...]

So out of shear frustration with everything — mostly being overwhelmed with all that I SHOULD be doing, I decided to take an hour break after getting home from the day job and before starting the night job.  At the beginning, I told myself that I go through and sort all the pieces by type [...]

So for my birthday recently, my family all chipped in and got me the Lego Ultimate Collector’s Millennium Falcontm.  Truly a dream come true for the Lego enthusiast and Star Wars fan alike.  Make sure you check out the specs on this thing: mini-figure scale model Ship is over 33″ long, 22″ wide and 8″ [...]