Christmas Build-Up: Day 5
Posted by TheBrickPal,
After the fantastic dog on Day 4, Day 5 continues the trend of great models in the Christmas Build-Up with this wonderful little micro-scale snowplough. The color scheme of grey, green and yellow is appealing and the model in general is the perfect companion to the first vehicle in the calendar; the sailboat on Day 1. I'm sure whichever child that receives this under their tree will be very happy indeed; granted, if it is supposed to be a toy!
Overall - 5.0 - I cannot think of anything to make this model better. The construction is carefully thought out, all the details are there and best of all, it fits with the winter theme!
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I have to say I'm impressed with the look of these tiny models using only a few parts, barring the monkey/puppy question yesterday, the 20 odd piece models, especially for the vehicles look great.
As for extra parts - today we need: +2x medium stone grey plate 2x2; +2x dark green Brick 1x1; +1x msg Brick 1x2 w. 2 Knobs; +1x msg roof tile 1x2x2/3; and another dark stone grey Plate 1x4 (our third such plate in 5 days - with only 1 in the box!)
@TheBrickPal: It could be a snow plough but the colour scheme makes me lean more towards combine harvester.
Whatever it is, why is it flying?!
When I was checking how rare the parts are in this set (short answer: not very), I noticed that the only rare piece in the entire set is that yellow piece as this is the only set it appears in.
I'm using two sets to see how far I can get before having to take anything apart. Thought I'd get further than day 4, but I was short a 2x2 light bley plate and 1x4 dark bley plate. Replaced a 2x2 from the reindeer with four 1x1s and stole the 1x4 from the ship as it looks better without anyway. Also removed the anti-grav plates from the bottom of the zamboni.
@paul_merton
That's what I asked myself, too. The transparent plate could be "ice" but since it's a SNOW plough, it must have been in white! Maybe it's just is a sort of display stand imagining the vehicle is just a toy shop model.
I noticed the transparent pieces aren't on the model in the photo on the box. Even with it removed, the plough is too high off the ground, but I guess compromises have to be made at this scale. Great model though!
@Brainslugged
Even that yellow piece has appeared in 85 sets, don't trust the lego/brickset inventories too closely!
I'd like to think that is ice; odd that it doesn't appear on the box, though.
The clear piece could represent ice if this is really a Zamboni, though their fronts aren't really that pronounced. It does really look like a snowplow, however.
All of these little builds are very impressive.
@Cult_Of_Skaro @Brainslugged
There are 2 very similar parts, both named 'Wall Element 1x2x1'
The part in this sets inventory, Design 26169, Part6146219 has Round Corners.
The other, Design 4865, Part 486524 has Square Corners.
The Brickset Inventories (which come from LEGO themselves I believe) list the Round Corner 'newer' one as only in this set - the Square Corner one is the 'older' one used in lots of sets.
I guess you'd need to actually check the parts in the sets to know whether the inventories are correct.
This is nice! I'm keeping my build-up by my chair so I can hopefully get inspired by these mini builds to invent my own. I grew up thinking in minifigure scale so, while I'm always charmed by mini builds, I haven't yet become confident at inventing my own tiny models...
My 6 and 8 year old boys just love these builds. Today the youngest said to my wife "I feel like an elf!"
The model has a stability problem and easily tips forward.
^ I guess mine disobeys the laws of physics, then, as it doesn't for me!
I've been having fun trying to keep as many models together as I can in a row. Lots of cheating as far as incorrect colour parts and substitution of parts but its fun. Some don't look to bad either. Usually been able to keep three together so far.
Thanks again CoffeeBrickMan for the priceless tip to keep building all the models one after one as I wish. Cheers!