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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

Technic: BWE Dismantled!

Wednesday, 3rd January 2018 By Caz

I only bought the Bucket Wheel Excavator (42055) for the parts to make GBC modules, so having finished it off the other day, I set about taking it apart again today. I left one or two sections built, such as the conveyor belts, as these will be immediately useful as they are for GBC.

BWE Dismantled
BWE Dismantling

However, having done all the sorting (there are a lot of bits!), I realised I didn’t have enough storage to put them in. A quick visit to Home Bargains in town and I had some more compartment storage boxes for the bargain price of £2.49 each. Marvellous. Now I can think about what to build for the show in a couple of weeks.

Home Bargains Compartment Storage
Home Bargains Compartment Storage

Filed Under: Storage, Technic Tagged With: bucket wheel excavator, bwe, compartment boxes, home bargains, parts pack, storage, technic parts

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