Hello

[eMHa]

Hello,

my nickname is eMHa and in my profile I've a little description about me and my LEGO history. I'm very interested in Technic.

Yesterday I finished 8297 :-)

I started to come out of my dark age in 2008 but I'm still struggling with the lots of informations and website, blogs, communities and so on in the internet.

So for now I've created a brickshelf account and I'm still sorting out how to put my images on it the best way.

Also EB seems to satisfy my information needs.

If someone wants to track my internet activities since 2008 it would be like:

* Oh, I'm not alone ;-) http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFOL

* Great what others made: http://www.dennisbosman.nl/lego/english.html

* Wow: http://www.jenniferclarkbass.com//lego/index.htm

* Find out what sets I've missed since my dark age begun: http://guide.lugnet.com/set/?qc=*technic&qn=280

* What new parts are in these sets: http://www.peeron.com/

* What the heck, LEGO is also in school: http://www.lego-in-der-schule.de/

* Reviews to better sort out what I have to buy first: http://alumni.cse.ucsc.edu/~dulcaoin/reviews/noframes/index7.html

* Oh, you can buy parts seperately: http://www.bricklink.com/

* A lot of pictures: http://www.brickshelf.com/

* Explanation of new and changed parts: http://isodomos.com/technica/technica.html

It was hard to convince my mom that I want my LEGO parts from my parents attic for ME and not my children ;-) OK, ok, I exclusivley build in association with my two boys. But my children only are allowed to play with MY LEGO parts when I'm with them. They have their own LEGO. My wife gave them her LEGO. And my two boys also got really a lot of new LEGO sets, mostly LEGO city and LEGO System. Also a few small Technic sets. I stringently differentiate between MY parts and THEIR parts, because my boys are really lazy about their parts, and often they break parts or scratch them on the floor...

I have a lot of fun to build with my two boys. Sometimes I wish I could build alone, to have silence to concentrate. On the other side, building alone is not that fun! So I'm really amazed what we've build "together" till now.

When I find the time I'll fill my brickshelf folder. I've taken digital pictures of all creations I've made AFTER my dark age, so it should be easy for me to fill my brickshelf folder, but I've still to sort out how to do it best. I've found two pictures (on paper) from before my dark age. One was a remotely controlled truck (2 axle) and one is a helicopter. Also I've found a paper where I noted the dimensions of a truck (3 axle plus 1 axle the trailer) I've build. It's nice to see people do the same now on the internet :-D Perhaps sometimes I can scan these pictures and also upload to brickshelf.

Well, but time is rare for me. I'm self-employed and I try to use most of my spare time with my family (my wife, my twins [nearly six years old boys] and my doughter [15 month old]). So playing and building LEGO is mostly done in winter at the weekends. Because for my work I sit a lot on my computer I've already installed MLCAD and LDD and so I'm able to design a little while I'm not at home. (Btw. was anyone of you able to use LDD on Linux with wine? Since the new LDD version (with universe mode) it doesn't work anymore with wine!?)

I really like to see what others build with Technic and I also like to share MOCs with the community. But for me the most relevant thing is to understand and see how the technics work.

So, uhm, it's gotton a lot what I've written, that's it for now.

Hello said eMHa :-)

Edited July 20, 2010 by eMHa

[-zenn]

Welcome and enjoy the board!

A great introduction! It's funny to read the stuff that you post about your boys, haha. It would break my heart of they broke a piece, but they're kids so well you know they break stuff.

Anyway hope to see some of your moc's soon. And get a FlickR account as well, than you're all set.

[eMHa]

Welcome and enjoy the board!

Thank you :-)

A great introduction! It's funny to read the stuff that you post about your boys, haha. It would break my heart of they broke a piece, but they're kids so well you know they break stuff.

Yes, it's heartbreaking! But only because I knew how many parts I've broken when I was young! I mostly kept my broken parts (you never know where you need them) and also showed them my boys, so they can see that this is no good. But well, they have to learn by themselfs.

Anyway hope to see some of your moc's soon. And get a FlickR account as well, than you're all set.

Yes, I've seen there flickr groups with LEGO and Technic. But till now I was unsure if I should get a account there. I'll look into this. Thank you.

Very nice welcome :-)

[XimenaPaulina]

Very nice introduction. Welcome to the EB family eMHa! See you around the forums!