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Been trying to finish it for a year now I’m just left wondering now what?

My homegirl picked me up a gallon bag of Lego for my birthday a few years ago at a thrift store. Looked like star wars and I picked up the other two gallon bags from the same thrift store. I've been sorting through all my loose bricks recently and organizing them by type and today I dumped out the first thrifted bag and found a unique piece. According my research this 10x10 light grey dish with printing only exists in set 10179 aka the 2007 millennium falcon. What are the odds that I have the entire set between three one gallon bags? I thought that set was huge and like 5k pieces. Pic related.

These have all been really fun to build! My entries can be found on my LEGO Ideas profile: https://ideas.lego.com/profile/e0347e4d-a866-4c3f-af78-92b1e01fc665

I have the twilight house and the philosopher stone set so it won’t be my first “bigger” set but it’s the biggest purchase since starting enjoying Lego.

As soon as I saw the Bricklink Series Frigate Fortuna, I knew that I had to have her, and I knew that I could not rest until I had made her as close to the HMS Surprise as I could. {un}Fortunately I broke my ankle at the beginning of the summer, and required surgery to be put back together, so when this showed up in the mail, I was able to take time and work on it one bag at a time, at a pace that really allowed me to enjoy all the intricacies of this build, it was so fun to do, and it gave me a lot of time to think about the changes I would make once completed. In the end, I made quite a few:

* Added main topsails to all three masts

* Added fore and main topgallants

* Added the Jib

* Converted the "spanker" to Main Staysail (triangular sail in the middle)

* Due to the inclusion of both paper and Lego sails, I had to get creative on how to attach both to the Yards, but we got there in the end

* Repurposed a printed endurance sail as a Fore topgallant Staysail (the lower triangle on the front)

* Added the Blue Ensign to the main mast (which is why I had the spare endurance sail)

* I converted the furled Foresail, Mainsail, Spritsail and spanker to "tan" instead of white, to match the canvas sails.

* The regular Marines all lost their epaulettes white coats and tricorne hats and were replaced with redcoats and more accurate hats.

* The Marine officer gained gold epaulettes and fancier hat.

* Added 4 additional Marines to the crew compliment

* The Naval officers all lost their epaulettes, except the new captain. (A custom Jack Aubrey figure)

* All minifigures have been force transitioned to masculine-presenting.

* Naval Officers and midshipmen have been given blue coats.

* Stern chasers have been converted to "brass" to match Jack Aubreys personal stern chasers in the Master and Commander series novels

* Gunports changed from Red to Black

* 5 additional sailors, including a master gunner, who has manned one of the Brass stern chasers

* Ships Doctor added to the Crew Compliment, a custom Stephen Maturin from the Master and Commander series

The biggest changes, I think, were the Sails, and the gunports I would say. the gunports were one of the last pieces to change, and it really did shift the whole feel of the ship.

I could not tell you how many hours I spent on this, and I simply won't say how much it cost, because I don't want to add up all the different bricklink orders I've done over the last 2 months and know myself.

Huge shoutout to /u/-mkit3- for designing the set and providing the sails and to u/HaroldTheScarecrow and u/Alarmed-Occasion-679 for helping me build Aubrey and Maturin!

I wasn’t expecting this at all but now im so hyped, im more of a clone wars kind of collector but hey, can’t complain! Probably the best gift I’ve received ever.

Pretty random pieces combined in a very interesting way

I was trying to make a jewl jackel but it kinda branched into something else, and being honest, i didn't plan on making this today but im really glad i did!

Let me know what you think!

Got the blue as a GWP and each subsequent color was based off the instructions and cost between 45 and 50.00 each to build

The artist Christian Bering Damm made these posters in collaboration with Lego for the Lego Space rollercoaster in Florida. He posted the original art in high quality on his linkedin a few month ago.
Perfect to make your own posters

Todays submission