Friday 6 January 2012

Batcave Build Update by Bruce Wayne



Hey Guys,
after a brief layoff from sorting stuff due to my Crohns flare up today i was able to sit down and do some sorting, no actual pictures yet but i've edged way closer to an actual build. :smile:
My internal bleeding has stopped, so now it's just a case of hopefully time permitting the new anti-inflammatory drugs kicking in and i'll be back up to full speed (fingers crossed).
I'd originally sorted out from the LDD build an inventory of bricks i would need, these bricks were sorted into item descriptions under colour content and quantity. I wanted to make sure i didn't miss a brick out :laugh:

Today I sorted through colours, Black, Brown, Blue, Tan & White. It took me a couple of hours to do this, starting around 4pm and finished at 11pm.
Out of the bricks i needed for these colours i found:
-----:-Quantity Needed-/--Bricks Found.
Black:------48---------/--found 48.
Blue:------187---------/--found 143.
Brown:-----22----------/--found 7.
Green:-----36----------/--found 4.
Tan:-------4-----------/--found 4.
White:-----31----------/--found 26.

The Green pieces are actually translucent green tiles for the computer monitor in the batcave control room, I never expected to actually have any so to find 4 is a start, i'm not so worried by that, but today was a good scavenge, out of the 328 bricks in total i needed i've found 232. Which isn't so bad. :biggrin:

Tomorrow i finish the scavenge by looking for dark & light grey pieces, these are the core of the building really, considering there is about 750+ bricks to this build and i only have two colours to scavenge in i should do quite well.

Obviously the more bricks i find in my own boxes the less i will have to payout to lego or bricklink direct. I still have hundreds of gizmo and awesome type black bricks, tonight while searching i'd not ruled out making a batcopter or batwing of some kind when i'm a little more content with the batcave. :biggrin:

I'll hopefully have some actual pictures soon, i guess it depends when the core of the building begins how many of the dark & light grey bricks i'll actually have, i get paid in about 1 week from now, so by then i will have a good order list ready for bricklink and i'll be able to finish the preliminary build and share pictures with you.

Thanks to everyone who has shown an interest, and for the patience while i've not been so well to update this in a while.

Rich     

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