{"id":4035,"date":"2012-10-09T07:45:41","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T17:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/?p=4035"},"modified":"2012-10-09T07:45:41","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T17:45:41","slug":"vw-van-lego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/vw-van-lego\/","title":{"rendered":"VW Van Lego"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Finished my 2nd major Lego project for this VW Wagon a couple nights ago. Now I’m suffering from Lack-of-lego syndrome. It’s what you get when you find a little bit of time each night to sit down by yourself and enjoy a little Lego building and then all of a sudden that’s all gone. I’m itching to buy another set. There’s a new set for a HUGE B-wing fighter<\/a> that’s out right now…but I think with all the plans for our home renovations lately, the last thing my wife would like to see in our house is a giant plastic spaceship. Imagine a scene where there will be a lot of throwing and plastic pieces flying everywhere in slow motion like the parts in Matrix where they’re shooting down the walls and columns.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>This project was as fun as my last one with R2D2. I do these things really nice and slow and admire the thought put into these models. The guys who design these things are amazing. How they fit blocks a certain way to make sure it’s structurally sturdy and yet they make something that not only resembles the objects they are, but they have functional pieces as the same time?<\/p>\n

What made this extra fun for me was that I was able to get little Kingston involved in some parts of the project. So it’s one of our first dad-son projects together. I hope there will be many more.<\/p>\n

One day I’d like to get into a Lego factory and ask some of these questions which I personally feel are one of the great mysteries of the Universe:<\/p>\n