t12ung Posted October 7, 2016 Posted October 7, 2016 (edited) Hello everyone. I'm from the UK and I'm a total newbie here and IRL to 'Lego Mania', I guess which is the term to describe die-hard fans. I suppose I'm AFOL who has fun building things, and intrigued by how things come together and work as a hole, but I'm no engineer! Whilst I did study mechanics and whatnot in Physics classes, that was a long time ago and not exactly a favourite subject of mine. I'm more of a computer geek and an online programmer. I suppose I first picked up interest in Lego Technic when I got my first model, 8070 Supercar for free (as the company I worked for had a bunch of prizes leftover in storage room that could be won from old competitions). The box immediately caught my eye and I could tell it was worth a fair bit of money in comparison to the other junk in there! I suppose I was of the mindset that I would be prepared to pay £200 for this model in the shops, thinking it was way overpriced for some bits of Lego (don't bash me for this!) Having built it and enjoying rebuilding, I now have a new-found appreciation of the amazing detail and functionality that can go into a technic model. However, that still wasn't enough to bring me into the fold... It was only until recently that I was looking for a 'cool' gift that I somehow came across MOCs. I've always been a fan of Ferrari cars and when I first saw Brunojj1's convertible MOC, I knew I just had to have one! Since the kid I was buying a gift for likes planes, I bought him the set 9394 from ebay and got myself one while I was at it :D In my searching of cool technic sets, I've come across the flagship 42056 and saw recently that it was on sale £50 off the retail price from lego.com so I went ahead a bought it to learn more about the mechanics and power functions that go into car sets. It's going to take a while for me to collect all the pieces necessary to build the MOC by Brunojj1 so the Porsche set shall help me learn more and give me a good base before taking on the MOC project. I'll be picking up the 42056 later today and have been reading up on it lately and it certainly looks challenging to build due to inadequacy of some of the mechanic functions :) Models owned: Edited October 20, 2016 by t12ung Added to collection Quote
KamalMYafi Posted October 7, 2016 Posted October 7, 2016 Welcome to Eurobricks! My first Technic set is 8070 too, BTW! Quote
t12ung Posted October 7, 2016 Author Posted October 7, 2016 Thank you :) Currently, I've put mine back in it's box in storage while waiting a buy a house where I can have my own space to display my collection. I've seen some cool MODs to add RC control to the 8070 which I think is a great reason to play with this model again, hehe. Quote
Rotundus Posted October 8, 2016 Posted October 8, 2016 Welcome to the Forums my friend. May your membership be profitable for all of us! Quote
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