I cannot believe how fast February is going by. For what it's worth, I may be complaining about the winter, but this one is going by super fast....and I'm fine with it. I'm currently on my last stretch of days off before the puppy comes. Life is about to get super crazy after this so I'm reminding myself to take the restful days when I can get them. I've tried to be productive this week though since I have quite the to-do list.
So we already talked about my finishing the blanket project. The next project I tackled was building a Lego Technic Bugatti Chiron. This thing was a total impulse buy that I made back in December out of grief. It was one of those things where my husband wanted to go to the Lego store, I said yes, and then my female brain kicked in and said that it was not leaving the store without a set to build. I'm not smart enough to be able to build my own from scratch, so we stick to the sets because they come with instructions. Personally, when I'm in the mood, I find it soothing. It comes with instructions so you literally just spend an afternoon putting the thing together and voila, all the bricks just go together in a way that makes sense. I wasn't a huge Lego person as a child, but I bought Matt a set for his birthday one year and things kind of took off from there. Took off to the point where we're going to need a bigger house soon for all of our Lego. It's so bad that we've had to take sets apart so we can make room for more. It's also rather of an expensive addiction....
Here's the other thing with me......I don't like the small Lego sets. They have to be the big sets that I can spend a lot of time sinking my teeth into. I'm the same way with books. I don't judge books by their covers, I judge them by their page count. I just really like projects that will last, ok?! So, instead of buying Dom's charger, which would be the more obvious choice since I love Fast and Furious, I went with the Bugatti which had triple the number of pieces. AND I told Matt that I was going to tackle it all on my own. Oh yeah, I was deep in grief for this one, so deep that I fired the guy that helps me find my pieces despite the fact that I was about to tackle the most challenging Lego set I've ever done.
The technic series is really awesome. Instead of plates and bricks, it's a lot of interconnecting rods and gears so you can make a realistic looking vehicle. However, that's what makes it challenging because one rod out of place throws everything off and when it does happen, you pretty much have to take the whole thing apart to fix it. But I finally finished it and I'm super proud of it. I'm also now adding Lego to the list of things I'm taking a break from temporarily because I'm now exhausted. Not until I share the experience with the world though, of course. I was so psyched for this project and took pictures as I went along.
Despite it being an impulse buy, I was still very excited for this. I really loved the box. It was so pretty and the inside was beautifully organized. The instruction booklet was also really fun. In the first section they had an insert on the history of Bugatti, how Bugatti's are built in the factory and how Lego planned to mimic this process with their build.
Bag 1 started off with the rear axle. Wasn't too bad, took me hours to get it together, but I got used to the pieces after awhile. Bag 2 was a real SOB. Basically it involved building a convoluted gear box that became the transmission. I really hated this one but it gave me an appreciation for why getting your transmission fixed is such an awful process. This was the bag I literally had to take apart and rebuild twice.
Bag 3 was the engine block itself. Not incredibly horrible, just a lot of small pieces. This one really made me admire just how much thought went into creating this set. They really got down to the nitty gritty details of the inner workings of a car and clearly had to make a lot of unique pieces just for these sets.
I started bag 4 the day that I mentioned day drinking and building Lego. This bag actually started the front axle. I guess Bugatti's are built with their front and rear separate and then they're connected later on, so Lego wanted to mimic this process. Bag 5 added on to the front a little bit more, now with some components of the rest of the frame that will later become the actual cabin itself.
Bag 6 was a real monster. It started off with building more of the frame for the cabin, and then putting the front and back halves together. I wish I had a picture of just how many rods I had to try to line up perfectly, but I'll just simply say it took 30 minutes of fighting with this thing to make everything line up happily.
Bag 7 we're starting to look like a real car! Got a little bit of the outside detailing done along the roofline and rear tires. We've got our spoiler in there and some of the components for the rear bumper. Bag 8 pretty much finished the rear of the car. The later bags would add a few details here and there but, this part of the car was basically done.
Bags 9 and 10 added the interior work with seats and a dashboard. Also a little bit of work done to get a frame ready for the front tires and doors.
I think I forgot to get a picture after Bag 11, but this one is after Bag 12 where the front bumper, hood and detailing are completely done, as well as the doors.
And at last, after some tires, sideview mirrors and some minor last minute detailing, my beautiful blue Bugatti Chiron is done. There were some real infuriating moments, but it was so worth it. I also forgot to mention that halfway through this project, Matt got jealous and bought the Lamborghini Sian so now we have two large sport cars to find homes for.
So that was my big adventure for this week off. I've also cleaned and organized the crap out of my house, which is such a huge relief. It's been a productive week! But after all that productivity there's always the crash where you wonder what's next on the to do list and realize that answer is "nothing." Guess I'll just read some puppy books or something!
Speaking of puppy, we received official word on Sunday that we will be getting a yellow boy! Our breeder video called me from outside with him and said "this little guy is your puppy!" and my heart pretty much exploded. Outright exploded. My ghost is writing this blog post. I just cannot wait to bring him home. I realized today I've never waited this long for a pet before. All of our animals have been adopted that day and brought home within 48 hours so waiting 8 weeks has been so nuts for me. Almost there though - 9 more days! I just have to survive work first <_<
Anyway, that's all I got for today. No photography because it's been so bitterly cold, plus I thought the car was more interesting anyway. But soon I'll have some new subject matter to flood the internet with!
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