Greetings from Sweden

[mechamike]

"Please allow me to introduce myself

Im a man of wealth and taste

Ive been around for a long, long year"

Well, perhaps that wealth part isnt really true. Depends really from what perspective you are looking.

My number is a53021.. Im living in a house not far from Linköping, Sweden with my family. My significant other she think's I have way to much Lego, but my five year old daughter who enjoys Belville and Spungebob set's agrees with me and think's that we still have room for more.

I only have about 100 sets and about 45 000 pieces (mostly SW) but even with the new house we built, Im still have a hard time finding a place to store my sets.

Anyhow, Im 38 and my Dark ages lasted between 1987-2005, then I realized there was Star Wars Lego and I got the AT-ST for christmas for a friend, and later decided to get a B-wing for myself. (turned out good move for me, but in the end not so good for my economy)

When It comes to Lego I mainly collect SW sets. I have 3 ongoing dioramas in my head that I collect sets and

parts for. I done a few MOCS (mostly mecha) . I love doing modifications on SW set. (I have a Sandcrawler that's been uppdated over the years and still isnt finished.) I also have some train and city sets (I really like the modular houses like Café Corner). And some rainy day I will make a cool base for my childhood classic space sets.

I somtimes read the FBTB forum, and I try to follow the nice Swedish blogg "Legobloggen".

I joined Bricklink 2005 to get the parts needed for my sandcrawler mod, and even if I been lurking in the Eurobrickforums also since 2005 it took until 2007 till I joined this place, and till today to introduce myself properly.

Some day i will get my act together and take pics of my mods and mocs so iI can get some constructive critisism..

(Daughter goes and my love goes whenever I show them someting)

And perhaps in the future I scope up enough courage and try to join the ranks of Swelug.

Even if the family and the house takes most of the time, I occasionaly find time to enjoy the tranquility my aquarium.(250 Litre freshwater)

or time to enjoy my gameconsols,or PC. I was part of the "scene" back when Atari/Amiga was the thing and made graphics for a few games/demos back then. Nowadays, I left Degas Elite and Photoshop for oil,acryl and real canvases. But I only paint at summer when the light is better here in the north.

Beside my reguar work, my love for music led me to a side carreer as Security manager on concerts and open air events. I also done alot of stage hand, local crew work over the years. (including Rolling Stones a few times if You still wonder who made the opening quote)

And even if I will not post a lot in the forums I still enjoy reading what others have to say here.

Nice to meet You all !

/Cheers!

[Guss]

/hello

/cheer

Hello and welcome a53021 , is there a reason for this .. strange nick ? ^^

[mechamike]

Hello and welcome a53021 , is there a reason for this .. strange nick ? ^^

Thank You.. Yes there is a reason for this strang nick, but its a secret, and I belive a wast horde of crazy fabuland figs would show up and beat You with turkey drumsticks If i tell you.. so I rater not since you seem like a nice person.

But Im seriously thinking of change it.. (if that's possible) But first I have to come up to a better nic.

[pr0visorak]

Thank You.. Yes there is a reason for this strang nick, but its a secret, and I belive a wast horde of crazy fabuland figs would show up and beat You with turkey drumsticks If i tell you.. so I rater not since you seem like a nice person.

But Im seriously thinking of change it.. (if that's possible) But first I have to come up to a better nic.

Haha! Welcome to Eurobricks!

[AndersI]

Welcome! Says I, that haven't been here a week yet :-)

Goto http://news.lugnet.com/loc/se/ for Swelug news!

[Majek]

Welcome to Eurobricks a53021!

Greetings from Poland .

~Majek

[CopMike]

Welcome to Eurobricks a53021! It´s always nice to have yet another fellow swede here!

Nice presentation - especially that you´re a hardcore SW-fan !

Hope you settle down here well!

CopMike

[WhiteFang]

a53021, welcome to Eurobricks! That was a very good introduction of yourself. I am glad that you have emerge from lurking and decide to interact with our hype community whom are crazy all over different themes. Even for some, there are a few of us whom adore Fabuland as well. Enjoy your experience with us, which I am sure you defintely will.

[Ras 74]

Welcome to the boards!

Even if you been here for awhile ;)

Nice with another fellow Swede.

Kim will break throw the roof

Nice presentation

Now with your name, that didn´t get it more uninteresting.

I´m sorry to say that we don´t change peoples usernames just like that.

Sometimes we have done that, but it is very rare to do so.

So you might be stuck with it.

-Ras-

[Captain Green Hair]

Oh no not another swedish SW fan...you guys already sunk the Vasa us nice Dutchies build for ya!

Welcome to the boards, that's quite an inroduction!

Glad you stopped lurking, you seem like another good member.

Too bad your wife goes , when you show her MOCs.

I have so much bricks at the moment, i don't have room for a second half in my house.

What type of fish do you keep in your aquarium?

I have a small tank with micky mouse fish, but if i ever find room i want a big tank too.

[mechamike]

Oh no not another swedish SW fan...you guys already sunk the Vasa us nice Dutchies build for ya!

Welcome to the boards, that's quite an inroduction!

Glad you stopped lurking, you seem like another good member.

Too bad your wife goes , when you show her MOCs.

I have so much bricks at the moment, i don't have room for a second half in my house.

What type of fish do you keep in your aquarium?

I have a small tank with micky mouse fish, but if i ever find room i want a big tank too.

Hehe.. Yes another Star Wars Viking.. Jar jar's of the world hide in fear !!

No but seriously , Thanks everyone for a nice Welcome..

@ Ras, Im glad that I cant change Usernames "just like that", that's one less thing to worry about and I had a hard time to decide if I should change it to "53021" or "Megasuperduperadultlegonfanfromthenorthpadawanninjakillerdude"

@ Captain green hair.. sorry about that Wasa incident , didnt know You nice Dutchies built it for us.. (but that kind of explain why it flipped over by a small gust of wind)

BTW both Your Tiger and Your German Baureihe 22 locomotive are really sweet builds.. I suppose If You built Wasa with your brick skills it still would be sailing the sevens seas..

Micke Mouse fish are nice, How big is you tank (with fish ? not the German Tger)

Before we moved to the house I had 3 aquariums, 40, 60, and the 250 litre. but before the move I gave away some of the fish and smaller aquariums. Some fish died after the move, (suppose the move was a bit stressful for them.) Before I had a lot of Platy and Black mollys (that had babies like crazy)

Currently I have 2 "Chromobotia macracanthus" ".

At the moment only one Pterophyllum scalare (female), one Pterygoplichthys gibbiceps

And one male Betta splendens (or Betta trifasciata Betta pugnax )

Getting a new house cost a lot of money,and apperantly (according to my gf that is) you also need new carpets, drapers, new furniture and other decorative stuff, so I have to wait due to negtive cahsflow to get a bigger tank. (600-700 is my goal)

The bigger the tank the more easy to take care of..

/cheers!

Edited December 5, 2008 by a53021

[Captain Green Hair]

@ Captain green hair.. sorry about that Wasa incident , didnt know You nice Dutchies built it for us.. (but that kind of explain why it flipped over by a small gust of wind)

BTW both Your Tiger and Your German Baureihe 22 locomotive are really sweet builds.. I suppose If You built Wasa with your brick skills it still would be sailing the sevens seas..

Micke Mouse fish are nice, How big is you tank (with fish ? not the German Tger)

Before we moved to the house I had 3 aquariums, 40, 60, and the 250 litre. but before the move I gave away some of the fish and smaller aquariums. Some fish died after the move, (suppose the move was a bit stressful for them.) Before I had a lot of Platy and Black mollys (that had babies like crazy)

Currently I have 2 "Chromobotia macracanthus" ".

At the moment only one Pterophyllum scalare (female), one Pterygoplichthys gibbiceps

And one male Betta splendens (or Betta trifasciata Betta pugnax )

Getting a new house cost a lot of money,and apperantly (according to my gf that is) you also need new carpets, drapers, new furniture and other decorative stuff, so I have to wait due to negtive cahsflow to get a bigger tank. (600-700 is my goal)

The bigger the tank the more easy to take care of..

/cheers!

No, no, no, the Vasa tipped over because your king had to put more cannons on, even when we told him not too.....(insert stupid description of the Swedish king here)

Those are cool fish you have, are those pictures from your tanks?

I have a small tank, about 35 litres or so....but i do want a bigger one some day.

Like you said, they are easyer to take care of.

Thanks for the compliments on the Tiger and Steam engine.

I'm currently working on a large ship the Prins Willim, perhaps i'll make the Vasa sometime too. And yes, that one won't tip over hehe.

[Ras 74]

No, no, no, the Vasa tipped over because your king had to put more cannons on, even when we told him not too.....(insert stupid description of the Swedish king here)

It was not so much the cannons.

But the extra deck he suddenly wanted to add. It had never been done before with a ship and double decks for canons.

This great idea he got when the ship was built so far as to the first deck (that was supposed to be the only one).

Then he was told it would be impossible to do so.

He didn´t care. And we all know what happend to this beautiful ship, don´t we.

He was one of the most coolest kings we ever had here, but he should have concentrated harder on war then trying to build stuff

But he is considered one of the greatest commander of all time.

Remember the 30 year war anyone??

Kim?

-Ras-

[Wout]

The 30 year war from 1618-1648?

I don't know much about that, because The Netherlands were very busy with independencewar with Spain (Since +/- 1568)

[Captain Green Hair]

The 30 year war from 1618-1648?

I don't know much about that, because The Netherlands were very busy with independencewar with Spain (Since +/- 1568)

We were not at war with the Spanish all the time, we even welcomed them at first.

That's propably why we still sing about the Spanish king in our national anthem...

[mechamike]

@ Captain green hair.. first: nope.. pic's of fish not taken in my fishtank.. "borrowed" them of the net :-) have some pics of my fishtank, just dont have a good place to host pics on the net.. second: so what you sing about the Spanish king , nice things or bad things?

[Captain Green Hair]

@ Captain green hair.. first: nope.. pic's of fish not taken in my fishtank.. "borrowed" them of the net :-) have some pics of my fishtank, just dont have a good place to host pics on the net.. second: so what you sing about the Spanish king , nice things or bad things?

We sing that we honour him, we also sing about having German blood.

In other words: i hate our national anthem and i refuse to sing it.

Now if they were singing about Michiel de Ruyter, that would be another case.