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Haul #9: eBay Transparent Mixed Lot

Friday, 19th January 2018 By Caz

I won this fantastic mixed lot of transparent pieces on eBay the other day. They were already sorted by colour, but I tend to keep my stuff sorted by part as much as possible now. Still, an excellent haul and I will look forward to using some of the pieces very soon.

eBay Transparent Haul
eBay Transparent Haul

A while ago I pulled out all the other transparent elements from my parts bins and gathered them together – since they are so integral to starting a Micropolis build, and when they were mixed with solid colours, I had difficulty getting a handle on what parts I had. With the arrival of this haul I had run out of storage space again so had to pop back to Home Bargains for more compartment trays – the same as I’m using to store my Technic parts. So now they all sit nicely organised like this – and it’s much easier to see what I’ve got to build with:

Transparent Parts Storage
Transparent Parts Storage

In the process of sorting, I came across one very odd piece – bug-eyes in transparent neon green. Here’s a shot with a rory next to it for comparison:

Odd Mask Piece From 2490
Odd Mask Piece From 2490

I had never seen anything like it! And there certainly weren’t any “legal” connection points to studs – but it did have a stamp saying LEGO on on side. I did some digging and discovered it is the eye section from a face mask included in the Insectoids Combined Set (2490). I honestly can’t see how I would use it for any of my MOCs, so I have offered it to an AFOL friend who builds M:Tron stuff – he’s delighted with the possibilities it has for spaceship cockpit windows – and has promised me some nice goodies in return. So we’re both a winner!

Today was also the first day of the London Model Engineering Show at Ally Pally – where I’m exhibiting my two GBC modules. I will do a full write up in the next few days. But on the way back from London, I stopped off at Stratford and did another raid on the PAB wall there – gathering some more black 1×2 grille bricks, some trans neon orange cockpit pieces, dark bluish grey wheel arches and white 2×2 turntable bases, amongst other things. I forgot to take a photo of it all before sorting it into storage, but I will definitely be using a few of those bits for MOCs soon.

Filed Under: Haul Tagged With: 2490, auction, bricks, doors, ebay, home bargains, storage, transparent, windows, windscreens

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