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 (not color), since most of the time you need to find a specific piece.  I think it will be important with this build since it is quite massive and no one table can contain all the pieces in an organized fashion.

So on that note, I decided to use zip lock bags (really cheap ones) to begin the sorting process.  Here are the results of that:

I will probably continue this method of attack, one hour a night.  I just have too much other stuff to do.  I have a friend coming down in April from New Hampshire that is a photographer and he wants to photograph this thing when it is done.  So as long as I am done by then, I will be happy!

So for my birthday recently, my family all chipped in and got me the Lego Ultimate Collector’s Millennium Falcon^tm.  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″ tall! (84cm long x 56cm wide x 21cm tall)
• 5,195 pieces
• Manual is 307 pages of instructions in a large 11 3/4 x 16 1/2 format (when closed)

Needless to say I am extremely excited and can’t wait to start to build this thing.  Here are the un-boxing photos (taken from my iPhone, so not that great).

I will be adding more pictures throughout the build process.  I am going to take my time on this one and enjoy it.