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I've decided, to post a description and building phases of my latest Lego project. But let me start at the begining...
As a small kid, I was the happiest person on Earth when I got a set of Lego bricks. Over the years, I've collected enough bricks to fill a small truck
But now, in college, I don't have neither time nor will for assembly. But on the other hand, I've allways wanted to have something big assembled from Lego, something, that I could have displayed on my shelves for a long time. And then, decision was made. Since I'm a fan of steam ships, I've decided to build RMS Titanic...Work started in LDD program. I've spent around a month to construct a ship that I was fully satisfied with. I was building along real Titanic blueprints, so everything is constructed as close to real ship as possible.
Pics from LDD:
Ship still has old back here:
Construction of new, SNOTed back:
Completed:
Next thing was to generate a building plan and to get the list of all required bricks. Fortunately, I had just under half of everything allready at home in my big pile of bricks
Remaining had to be ordered. Few days later, last package of bricks arrived. Everything still packed:
And scattered all over the floor:
Finally, construction has begun.
Progress was very slow because of 2 things:
- firstly, LDD isn't exactly the smartest program on Earth, so it has generated building plan starting at the top of the ship
After 1200 steps (of 5400 all together) it finally became pleasure to build, because then the building plan became normal (from bottom up). Why is building from up to bottom so bad you may ask? Mostly because lot of bricks are placed into empty space, and only after few steps, the required brick, to hold those in place, is placed. Plus you have to have model turned upside down all the time.- secondly, because of that many piles on the floor, you can't have all in reach of your hand. So, standing up and sitting down ca. 4577 times per minute is required
Some photos of progress:
And despite everything, I've manage to finish construction. Sign in front of the ship:
Ship from every angle:
The model is built so that it can be transported. It consist of two halves. Everything that needs to be done is to remove one chimney and main cable. This is done within 30 seconds:
And now for some data:
Name: RMS Titanic of the White Star Line company
Length: 217 cm (with base plates), 193 cm (without base plates)
Width: 25,5 cm
Height: 50 cm
Weight: around 15 kg
Number of bricks: a bit over 12000
LDD planning time: around month
Building time: a week (around 50 hours)
Note that everything except long cables is Lego and that nothing is glued!
Well, this is about it. I hope you guys like it.
For the end, let me post a comparison with real ship:
Best regards, NEJC
WOW! This is the most impressive LEGO model of a real ship that I've ever seen! So massive, and so accurate to the real thing. I'm gonna spend the next little while poring over these pictures! 
That looks so much like the actual RMS Titanic and you must have taken up so much time building the whole ship...
