Trying to build the Knight Bus with spare parts [Harry Potter?] [MOC?]

[Herbnosis]

First off, apologies if I'm breaking any rules--I'm a new member, I read the Member Guidelines post and I think I'm OK, but if I missed something, apologies in advance.

I'm just coming back to Legos now that my kids are almost old enough to get into them with me. I don't have a ton of elements but I'm buying new sets and have picked up a couple of PAB cups to increase my collection. I've also made a couple of purchases on bricklink.com. I'm having a lot of fun.

When I recently learned that instructions for Lego sets are online, I thought it would be fun to try and build a set from the instructions but with the limited pieces I already have (well, first the idea was to buy the actual set pieces individually but that turned out to be way out of my price range). My first attempt at this is The Knight Bus from the Harry Potter collection. Here are some pics; I also blogged about it and that link is here as well.

http://herbnosis.tumblr.com/post/80235929605/lego-experiment-1

http://herbnosis.tumblr.com/post/80325842425/lego-experiment-1-part-2

I know it looks nothing like the Knight Bus (that's covered in my blog); in fact, it looks pretty bad all around and I don't plan on keeping it built now that I've taken photos. Still, it was a fun learning experience that I plan on repeating.

[RoboKnight]

I love these kinds of things!

[Sarah]

interesting!

I've been thinking of doing the same thing -- but using this set to make a London-like double decker in red instead! So it was very interesting to see someone else do iT!

[grymg]

Well bricklink is addicting, you better stop while you have the chance (coming from a current addict!)

I recently won an auction for a cheap used Knight Bus, it came missing the middle deck. At first I wanted to bricklink the missing deck but the window costs were too high. Well long story short I ended up making a train wagon out of the bus!

That said, it looks great with two decks. Well good luck to your project, maybe if you stick with a more neutral color (gray, black, white), the pieces will be more affordable to complete your model.

Edited March 24, 2014 by grymg