Grum's Shed

[grum64]

On 7/25/2025 at 8:52 AM, steph77 said:

It's always a journey reading your posts! Didn't expected that the new style diff could be so difficult to assemble vs the old one. Whatever I see you still progress and this gives me a smile for the day. @++++ s. 

Thank you for your comments. You're always very kind. 

As for my posts. I'm not sure about them being a journey and if they are I'm not sure to where. Madness probably 😵‍💫

Edited July 26 by grum64
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[grum64]

Build Days 20 - 24 / Building Time - 17hrs / Total Building Time - 70.5hrs

Hello my Friends

I usually go out to my shed with a rough idea of what I want to get done in the time I have and more importantly, an idea of how I'm going to go about it. As I’m sure you already know, I go through the (digital) instructions to work out how I’m going to build a model, switching the build order to suit the way I need to build. Almost every page will have pretty detailed notes typed on them. Imagine then if you will what went through my mind upon I realising I’d accidentally deleted said instructions and then in an act of stupidity matched only by VW's decision to take the ‘what bad emissions’? approach to business, I then emptied my Goodreader Trash Bin.

The stupidity doesn’t end there though, oh no, because after downloading the instruction book again I decided that re-annotating would take up valuable building time. Surely I'd remember what I'd written . All too predictably I was wrong in this assumption.

A prime example of why I don’t rely on my sieve like memory soon presented itself. The dashboard. It was a right royal pain to fit as I couldn't get around it very easily to fit it.  After much phaffing about I found the best way to do it was by removing the front doors. Once in place it was on with the doors and on to the next step. At this point I found that the A Pillars were also an absolute pain but no worries, I had a solution. Remove the front doors & dashboard. Once this was done in went the dashboard complete with newly attached A Pillars and on went the doors.

I've just spent the last week annotating the newly downloaded set of instructions hopefully lessoning the likelihood of something similar happening again but... there's no preventing stupid.

Apologies for the colours etc. They appear different depending on sunshine/brightness levels through the windows.

The cake testers have again been put to very good use. You can see from the screenshot below that there are 2 x 3L Pins to fit in the top of the two liftarms peering cheekily from behind the engine. I thought I’d annotated to fit them much earlier in the build and after looking back through the first instruction book I had. At step 51. This would have been easy but for some reason I didn’t do it. Remember what I said about being unable to prevent stupid?

Speaking of stupid. Before any of this could be done the doors and dashboard had to come off. Again. Threading the tester through the Pin & the Liftarm enabled them to be held in place and with a little jiggling about and using my clamps the Pin was in place. I used the same ‘procedure’ to help the Pin complete its journey through the 1L Spacer and 13L Liftarm and refitted the doors & dash. Done.

Oh, and then there were the windscreen wipers and guess what? Yep, doors off, dashboard out etc, etc,...

The humble cake tester.

Edited August 15 by grum64
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[grum64]

Opps...

 

 

Edited August 17 by grum64
Photo problem 🙄

[BusterHaus]

I would pin your enthusiasm and eagerness to build as the cause of all the rework, not stupidity. You can also claim that you built some portions of this set three times in your life, it's all about perspective. 

[grum64]

9 hours ago, BusterHaus said:

I would pin your enthusiasm and eagerness to build as the cause of all the rework, not stupidity. You can also claim that you built some portions of this set three times in your life, it's all about perspective. 

As you well know, I do have an unbridled enthusiasm and an eagerness to build but there’s no getting away from the fact that the whole doors & dashboard saga was anything other than farcical. As always, I appreciate what you say about perspective and of course you’re right but I’m jnot expecting a call from MENSA anytime soon 🤡

Edited August 17 by grum64

[Johnny1360]

Good to see you making progress, it always strikes me oddly that everytime I check into this thread, we seem to be working on the same set. I always gain some inspiration after reading of your struggles as I also have some issues with assembly. Thanks for being you.

[grum64]

I’m highly unlikely to win awards for build speed but I have been told  I’d do so for stubbornness. Although I like to call it determination 😬

Thank you for your kind words.

Edited August 17 by grum64
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[grum64]

Build Days 25, 26 & 27 / Building Time - 13hrs / Total Building Time - 82.5hrs

Hello Again

This is now two updates in a week which is almost unheard of. Mind you because all went as it should there's not too much rambling to wade through (I can hear the applause 🫤).

In previous posts I've touched on how different the colours of parts appear in my photos. It seems to be more noticeable with this set, there's hardly been one photo where the parts look anything like the Reddish Orange they are in the brick.

I thought it might have been something to do with the changing light levels outside so I had the windows covered today but it made no difference which is really annoying. I now think it might be the fluorescent tube lights so I'm looking into getting them replaced with daylight tubes. Fingers crossed will make the difference. I hope so because there doesn't seem much else I can do about it.

Any help or advice regarding daylight tubes, specs etc would be very much appreciated because I know nothing. Surprising? I think not 🤡

 

Edited Friday at 09:50 PM by grum64
Help request added.

[2GodBDGlory]

Looks like some good progress!

[grum64]

6 hours ago, 2GodBDGlory said:

Looks like some good progress!

Thank you. It's getting there helped I'm sure by leaving the doors & dashboard attached for more than 5 minutes 🙄

[grum64]

Build Days 28, 29 & 30 / Building Time - 12hrs / Total Building Time - 94.5hr

Hello again

Cooler weather and scribble free days on the calendar mean I've been able to have a few more afternoons in the shed this week so the Merc's coming along quite nicely, better than I expected.

With the reddish orange body slowly enveloping the largely black & grey chassis it has more of a presence on the table. It's certainly taking up a fair amount of real estate. It's got some heft to it. It's not an easy thing to drag about and to handle.

Today I had to fit the front wheelarches and the only way I could do them was to tip the model on each side which is easier said than done. Fitted the rears and running boards at the same time.

During this exercise I lost, yes lost, a 6536 Axle & Pin Connector with attached blue 2L Pin with Axle which fell into the chassis. Despite my vigorously shaking it, as vigorous as I'm ever likely to get anyways, and whilst there was rattling nothing was ejected however a wing mirror did liberate itself. This isn't the first time a model has consumed parts intended for its being. I lost a 2x4 L Shaped Liftarm somewhere in the Chiron and in the Extreme Adventure a 12 Tooth Bevel Gear 2L Axle Connector were ingested and never seen again. Who knew Lego models had cannibalistic tendencies.

 

 

Edited 4 hours ago by grum64
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