By the way, another rule of Legos is that everything is recyclable. I sometimes build a test version with parts in the wrong colors, just out of whatever's on hand. Case in point, I made gray mockups of the slimeblowers before all the silver and black pieces arrived.
When the correct colors came in, I just threw the gray prototypes in a ziploc bag and forgot them. But while I was making Venkman's office, I thought "in the movie there's a telescope somewhere around here, I wonder what I could use..." and my brain instantly flashed on the slimeblowers. A minor adjustment and voila, instant telescope.
The fertility idol was also something I had bought for another purpose. I was dressing the PV office and thought, "okay, here on the desk he's got a gargoyle, what have I got that looks like a... oh, perfect!"
Jake LeRoy wrote:Alex if some one ask me if your a Lego god I'll say YES!!!!!!
Just love this one! How long did it take to build this beautiful creation?
Hmmm. Not sure... everything has been done in sections, so it's hard to calculate.
The Janine desk pieces arrived about three weeks ago. I posted a pic of the desk then, but held the rails and Peter's desk in reserve until the whole scene was finished.
This may be interesting to see the little nuances I've made. I was waiting for the handset for the phone to arrive when I snapped this one.
I've actually built her printer and computer tower twice. Once in all-white, to match the monitor and keyboard, and once in light bluish gray, which was my preference because it gives the white piece of 'paper' more contrast. I looked for the computer pieces in lbg, but only found them in white and dark bluish gray.
That frog on her desk is the only thing I found with an odd organic shape to portray her whale. If you guys think of a better brick for this, let me know.
My initial order for engine bay walls arrived, and I built them in an hour or two of monotony, only to discover they were way too short. The Ecto towered over them, as did my basement scene's walls. Although I'd worked out how many plates and tiles I'd need just to make this big L-shaped wall, they just didn't look right on a shelf together with the car or the other set. So I placed an order for even more white 1x2 bricks.
Almost simultaneously, I saw Michael Scott's pic of his GB1 Janine with the Librarian torso, and had to go find a supplier, then wait for it to arrive.
Somewhere in there I saw OrionPax's recipe for the walls behind Venkman's desk, and order a bunch of the reddish-brown containers. Now that I've built it, I wish I'd ordered about four more. Maybe when I make artwork to cover the wall, I can sneak four of those out, replace them with other brown bricks, and make the whole brown wall taller.
Lbrarian torso arrived a couple days ago. Yesterday, I got the additional white bricks. I dug out a 48x48 baseplate that I've owned for decades, and realize my L-shaped wall needed to be an almost entirely straight wall. This meant dismantling the greater portion of it just to get to all those teeny plates in the middle, and I was reminded of fears people had about NASA's interlocking thermal tiles on the Space Shuttle in the 80s.
They'd said no glue would withstand the temperatures of reentry, so the tiles just held each other in place. Critics feared a 'zipper effect' that would rip the entire shield off. I would try to pull apart just enough bricks to expose the ones I need, and great diagonal sections would all come out with it. So add a couple more hours of monotony to that construct.
Either I'd miscalculated how many 1x2 white bricks I needed to get the height up where I wanted it, or I had just bought the guy's inventory out and forgotten getting the extras, but I discovered I had lots left over. I happily found a use for them this morning.
And making Peter's office with the rails was about an hour of experimentation just to get everything to fit. I wish I had one more straight rail. I still wish the spheres at the corners were available in reddish brown. I bought them in red and plan to paint them.
Then it was just a matter of set dressing. I've been buying interesting bricks whenever I place an order. So there was a baggy that had some welding masks and acetylene torch in it. A toolbox, a handtruck, Egon's drill.
The sloped pieces with the caution striping were an impulse purchase that became chocks for the Ecto's rear tires.
And did you notice I upgraded the sniffer on the Ecto?
So... if I knew what I was building from the get-go, it would probably be something I could knock out in two or three hours. As it is, I've logged a few additional hours doing work that was eventually undone and redone.
But heck, that's part of the fun.
Jake LeRoy wrote:All I can say is Lego needs to offer you a job lol!
Also have you thought about tackling the rooftop scene?
If they did give me a job, I'd probably spend so much on more employee-discounted bricks, I'd get a negative paycheck.
The Spook Central rooftop temple, eh? I've seen one done, and it would be a great way to show off the BrickinIt custom trio of Destructor, Zooly, and Vince.
But I better think about that a while. Make my design in LDD and see what corners I can cut before I start ordering.
Alex