grum64

Very nice little build.

Build Days 16/17/18/19 - Total build time 6hrs 30mins / Total build time 47hrs 20mins Yes, I'm afraid it’s time to inflict other quick update upon you. There have been a few problems caused by the size of this build but on the whole things have gone really well so far helped on occasion by my reading the instructions ahead of a days building enabling me to plan around potential problems. A good example of this is shown in pic 3. Fitting the 27 black and 1 blue 3L pins into the frames with them in place would have been particularly difficult had I followed the instructions but fitting them prior to attaching the frames avoided this. I'm guessing that this sort of 'workaround' is going to be needed more and more as this build progresses. The most frustrating part of the build so far has been joining the 50 tread links together for the output conveyer. Almost 2hrs was spent trying to put these little buggers together and joining the ends. Looking through the instructions I see there’s another 66 to do later in the build. Oh joy. I must again apologise for some of the photos. The ever increasing size of this build and it being on my laptray makes it difficult to frame using my mobile. I'm hoping to get a better photography setup sorted out soon.

I like it. Small and pretty much perfectly formed. Great job.

Only! For some of us mere mortals that’s weeks (or in my case months } of work

Thank you Maestro Thank you, it's great to be building again. I'd seen pics & watched videos prior to building so I knew the BWE was going to be big but I wasn't prepared for just how big. Thank you Edwin. It's coming on. Slowly but surely.

Build Days 12/13/14/15 - Total build time 7hrs 10mins / Total build time 40hrs 50mins It’s been a while since my last post so with a few days building done it’s time for a quick update but, as I’ve only had an hour or so each build day there’s not very much in the way of progress. On the whole this part of the build has been pretty straightforward and with the exception of one ‘hiccup’, has been problem free. That ‘hiccup’ was of my own making. I refer to the the two black pins indicated by the (badly drawn) red arrows on photo 7 below. Even though I’d been through the instructions the night before building I’d somehow managed to miss them. It’s no excuse but looking again at the instructions (stage 191/page 192) the pins are easy to miss and unlike other part placements they aren’t indicated. I’d gotten as far as the final photo before, in the instructions, I caught a glimpse of a pin mocking me through a 15L liftarm. I was gutted! Thankfully it was just a case of removing the two 15L liftarms, the pins were then fairly easy to put in place. Disaster averted. The most frustrating thing so far was attaching the turntable assembly to the main build. Getting all those pins to locate took over 40minutes. An exercise in patience to say the least. Apologies for some of the pictures. This is one big build and it's a job getting far enough away to fit the whole thing in.

Hard to believe this is really made from LEGO. It’s absolutely beautiful.

Again you show that you’re the King of detailing.

What a beautiful creation. Great to see you back.

Holy Moly! I see it, but I’m not sure I believe it

Flippin' heck! That's one great looking truck.

STUNNING! This must surely go straight into the HoF. As others have said, take all the time you need to sort out the problems you face and I wish you well with that. I'd like to think it's an 'enforced' break rather than a finality but whatever, you'll be sorely missed from these pages and we all here hope you'll one day be back wowing us with your incredible builds.

That thing's humungous! Are there any yellow parts left, well, anywhere?

Another excellent build. Very impressive.

I wasn't overly impressed when I first saw this set but all these mods have changed my mind. It's now firmly on my to buy list.

Excellent MOC as always. Like Ludo I saw one of these operating and wondered what it was. Thanks effe for furthering my education .

25 :10 8 :6 24 :4 10 :3 9 :2 3 :1 Excellent competition with some very interesting entries. The very best of luck to you all.

Just bought one of these for £95, unwanted Christmas raffle win so bnisb. Very pleased but I don’t know when it’ll get built.

JuneISH Thank you. It’s good to be back with my EB friends. Thank you Edwin. The legs are healed, I’m just dealing with the complications but hopefully all will be well in the next couple of months. Thank you Bart. Being back building is great but for a while it’ll be sporadic.

June eh? I'll set a reminder, just in case you forget

Thank you. The BWE is a pretty amazing build. It's nice that there's very little repetition, so far anyway. How on earth do you lose track of a box that size?

Thank you. Thank you. i'll get back to longer building hours in a couple of months. Whatever the hours I'll definately have fun.

I often tinker about with LDD or stud.io when I can't get out to my shed. My PAW Patrol LEGO Ideas project was built digitally while I was laid up last year. Thank you for your kind comments. It's great to be back. Thank you. As for any awesomeness, my Daughter in Law disagrees . Thank you Jeroen. I hope to be able to post fairly regular updates. For the forseeable future each post will cover a few days building as I can't be up long enough each day to make enough progress to be worth posting. As for it being getting tricky, I've been looking through the instructions and watching build videos to see what's to come. I'm not sure it was a good idea! Thank you Andy. I think you should build your BWE. It's a difficult build but it's very good fun.

After what seems like an eternity away I’m back building. It’s taken much longer than anticipated due to the complications with the broken leg needing an op. I'm still confined to bed for much of the time and when I am up it's only for a limited time so the amount of building I can get done is a lot less than I'd like. Hopefully normal service will be resumed in a few months. Until then, any building is better than none. I'd like to say a big thank you for all the emails, texts and messages. I very much appreciate your good wishes and kindness. Finally, to the member who thought I'd died. I'm sorry my 'passing' caused you so much upset. Gilly thanks you for your very heartfelt condolences but I assure you I'm still very much alive, a state of being I aim to maintain until the good Lord or Beelzibub himself assures me that their respective domains of the afterlife have no steps. Build Days 7/8/9/10/11 - Total Days build time 7hrs 15mins / Total build time 33hrs 55mins With me not having done any building for around 6 months I thought it might take a little while to get back into the swing of things but I've found myself having to 'relearn' many of my building techniques so progress has been painfully slow. Other than my goldfish like inability to remember anything, these last few days building only really threw up one problem. Attaching the bottom of the superstructure to the carrier was an real exercise in patience. It's connected by 4 x 32054 pins, 2 at the front & 2 at the rear. Once the assemblies are placed on top of eachother the rear pins were no trouble at all to push in. However, the same cannot be said of the front. They were nowhere to be seen covered as they were by the top assembly and buried in the build. Once I did locate them it took over an hour to push them in but with the aid of a long screwdriver held in my mouth (Note to self. Ensure screwdriver is free of grease etc before placing in mouth) they surrendered to my will. I’ve just realised that the above problem could’ve been avoided had I turned to the next page . I forsee much more 'fun' ahead due to the ever increasing size of this build. Already it's almost outgrown my laptray and there's a very long way to go yet. Boy it's good to be back building. Apologies for having no photo of the superstructure bottom prior to attachment of the actuator assembly. No excuses, I forgot. It's that goldfish thing again.

Exquisite Edwin, absolutely exquisite.