AFOL from Estonia

[P6tu]

Hi,

My nickname is P6tu.
I got my first Lego set around 1989-1990... In the beginning of the "dark ages" I lost interest in Lego. In 2012 my son was born and in 2013 one of the first things I did for my sons birthday, was purchasing almost a full set of all current City sets at the time (yeah, got a bit wild :D). After that the Lego bug and fan in me was resurrected :P.

By now me and my son together have over 900 unique sets and in total about 1100+ sets with about 24 000 extra parts.

About five years ago or so I started to actually create some not so random City builds with my son and this has lead to the development of a somewhat specific line/theme of builds. I will create a separate topic for that City custom theme. Those builds are also the reason why I have finally registered here to get some help.

Prior to that I was more into building custom Technic sets. While that theme is still lucrative, then I am finding myself a bit estranged with the new type of bricks (I'm from the era, where Technic builds were done with Technic bricks and Technic beams were not a thing at all.

A little bit of trivial information about me and myself:
- I'm a fan of cars and I own few classic American cars with the oldest from 1958.
- My favourite Technic set: 42128; 42070 (classic sets: 8880; 8868 and 8858) - sorry, there is no one special favourite :D.
- List of my sets (not very up-to-date): LEGO Owned by P6tu | Brickset
- My MOC-s: MOCs Designed by P6tu | Rebrickable - Build with LEGO
- I like liqurice candies (yeah, some hate them, I like them).
- I don't drink beer.

[Yperio_Bricks]

Welcome to the forum @P6tu I like liquorice candies too!

Did you and your son build a big city layout with all the sets?

[P6tu]

2 minutes ago, Yperio_Bricks said:

Welcome to the forum @P6tu I like liquorice candies too!

Did you and your son build a big city layout with all the sets?

We have a dedicated table for the CIty builds, but that is mostly my sons playfield =). 

We have dreamed of a separate room to have our City builds with our custom things with all the trains, but unfortunately our apartment isn't big enaugh and the master bedroom is offlimits due to my partner. Only time when we can use big bedroom for Lego builds is prior to one specific ESTLUG event, where we can prepare our display ;).

But yeah, I need a house :D. At this moment there is one custom build with MILS plates that is about 1,2m × 1,5m in area dimensions, but I have no place to fully assemble it... And that is just the size of this custom build. If we would build all the City theme sets, then we need a very big empty room :D. But it would be awesome =).

PS! Kudos on liquorice :D.

[Yperio_Bricks]

13 minutes ago, P6tu said:

We have a dedicated table for the CIty builds, but that is mostly my sons playfield =). 

We have dreamed of a separate room to have our City builds with our custom things with all the trains, but unfortunately our apartment isn't big enaugh and the master bedroom is offlimits due to my partner. Only time when we can use big bedroom for Lego builds is prior to one specific ESTLUG event, where we can prepare our display ;).

But yeah, I need a house :D. At this moment there is one custom build with MILS plates that is about 1,2m × 1,5m in area dimensions, but I have no place to fully assemble it... And that is just the size of this custom build. If we would build all the City theme sets, then we need a very big empty room :D. But it would be awesome =).

When you got your first Lego 1989 - 1990 we must be around the same age. So there is still time for us to get a Lego room haha

[P6tu]

5 minutes ago, Yperio_Bricks said:

When you got your first Lego 1989 - 1990 we must be around the same age. So there is still time for us to get a Lego room haha

I haven't given up on that yet and still seems to be achieavable thing to do to get that Lego room :D - and maybe even not in that far future... So yeah, we might be around the same age :D. Just in case, my first Lego was not Duplo. It was the TV car (set 6661).

While we are chatting already here - is there a MOC section in this forum or it is one of those things that isn't visible for new members?

Edited September 19, 2023 by P6tu

[Yperio_Bricks]

1 minute ago, P6tu said:

I haven't given up on that yet and still seems to be achieavable thing to do to get that Lego room :D - and maybe even not in that far future... So yeah, we might be around the same age :D. Just in case, my first Lego was not Duplo. It was the TV car (set 6661).

Hmmm, i don't remember if me or my brother had 6661 but we had some sets from the same year like 6481 with light and sound! And we had some of the small race cars. Must be the first Lego we got.

[P6tu]

6 minutes ago, Yperio_Bricks said:

Hmmm, i don't remember if me or my brother had 6661 but we had some sets from the same year like 6481 with light and sound! And we had some of the small race cars. Must be the first Lego we got.

Oh, how I dreamed of those light and sound sets :D. I wished for one space police set for Christmas, but I got a small space police car =(... But to be honest, then I was a very lucky kid to even get that since at the time the economi wasn't that good (Estonia was part of Russia basically and yeah... that says it all... )...

[Yperio_Bricks]

10 minutes ago, P6tu said:

Oh, how I dreamed of those light and sound sets :D. I wished for one space police set for Christmas, but I got a small space police car =(... But to be honest, then I was a very lucky kid to even get that since at the time the economi wasn't that good (Estonia was part of Russia basically and yeah... that says it all... )...

Yeah, those were different times. We fled (sounds more dramatic than it was) East Germany at the beginning of 1989, before i got the Lego

[P6tu]

6 minutes ago, Yperio_Bricks said:

Yeah, those were different times. We fled (sounds more dramatic than it was) East Germany at the beginning of 1989, before i got the Lego

Those were different times indeed...

By the way, I figured that there is no separate topic for MOC-s and all are mixed up, so I started to unwrap my latest Lego journey in the Town subtopic =). Hope that it is an interesting read for AFOL-s :P.

[Yperio_Bricks]

11 hours ago, P6tu said:

Those were different times indeed...

By the way, I figured that there is no separate topic for MOC-s and all are mixed up, so I started to unwrap my latest Lego journey in the Town subtopic =). Hope that it is an interesting read for AFOL-s :P.

Pictures, people want pictures!

[P6tu]

2 hours ago, Yperio_Bricks said:

Pictures, people want pictures!

For some reason I do not have the embedded option to add pictures to the posts. I can only add them as attachments. Maybe that is one of the limitations of newbie members =). Only few more posts to go to be able to show pictures. I did add links to bricksafe pictures, but I have plenty to show =).

[Yperio_Bricks]

14 minutes ago, P6tu said:

For some reason I do not have the embedded option to add pictures to the posts. I can only add them as attachments. Maybe that is one of the limitations of newbie members =). Only few more posts to go to be able to show pictures. I did add links to bricksafe pictures, but I have plenty to show =).

It is not possible to upload images directly to Eurobricks. There is only small space for a avatar. You have to host images at a hosting site and then add the link to the image to your post. Then the image should be shown instantly. flickr, imgur and such sites.

[P6tu]

44 minutes ago, Yperio_Bricks said:

It is not possible to upload images directly to Eurobricks. There is only small space for a avatar. You have to host images at a hosting site and then add the link to the image to your post. Then the image should be shown instantly. flickr, imgur and such sites.

I have the pictures hosted in multiple locations and this is not an issue. This I read out loud and clear that there is no option to upload the pictures here.

But the thing is that according to the instructions about how to insert the pictures to posts - it is a bit different for me and I do not have any insert image button at the top of the post editing tools. I only have a button at the right bottom corner of the post editing window, so to say, where I can select to insert other media from a drop-down menu.

Anyway - first pictures added ;).