grum64

I've a feeling this is one build I'm never going to forget!

Inserting the 5L axles was aided by my trusty forceps. Impressive progress. Thank you, I'm pretty pleased but there's a very, very long way to go yet. Thank you for your kind comments. Really pleased you've now been able to build the 8880. It's a great set.

Build Day 4 - Days build time 4hrs 25 mins / Total build time 15hrs 5 mins Another day having fun (most of the time!) playing with my little ABS friends. Most of today's building was spent repeating much of the previous day's building which meant coming up against the same problems. The 15100's were again a pain to fit whereas the 55615 proved to be a far more worthy adversary with each encounter being a battle of attrition with the last being particulaly so. The fight was long and hard but with nothing to show for the time spent a strategic withdrawal was called. Wounds dressed, a new plan of action and a few short skimishes later and victory was declared. This time... With 31 x 15100's and 12 x 55615's left to go I fear my battles have only just begun. The only other difficulties today were with the four 7L liftarms in stage 60 (page 83). Being fairly deep inside the main assembly they were a job to get to and keep in place while trying to exert enough pressure to fit them. Almost 50 minutes passed with no results before I did what I should have done all along (my head will never save my struggles). I passed a 5L axle though an unused hole in the assembly at the same level of the needed pins. Then the liftarm, held in forceps, was gently guided onto it. The liftarm, now held in place by the axle, was then easily affixed. This was repeated for the remaining 3 liftarms. Hope that all makes sense. The rest todays building was problem free. Today's pictures. Apologies for the last picture. It was taken at the end of the building and I was whacked so it was difficult to hold the phone high enough to get the whole assembly in frame and keep it steady enough for it to focus. My bad, I'll try and do better.

Thank you Bart. The 15100 is indeed a difficult piece to fit but I'm finding the 55615 to be particularly so. I think it depends on where it's fitted, what way and what's in the way. I'm sure they'll not all be so. An overhead crane in the shed to help with fitting the BWE's upper arm isn't as out there as at first might be thought. The idea's a good one but with an ceiling mounted hoist in our bedroom it could be that the solution has been here all along...

Thank you. Although those black parts were indeed a pain to fit it was attaching the sub assembly to the main that caused the real problems with these being the troublemakers.

Build Day 3 - Days build time 2hrs 30mins / Total build time 10hrs 40mins From the pictures it doesn't look like much as been done today but I didn't have a whole lot of time today so didn't get as much done as I'd have liked. It's still progress though and that's always a good thing. Most of todays build went really well but fitting the parts on the stage below proved difficult to say the least, no matter what I tried I couldn't get them on. A coffee break, deep breaths and a few bloodied 'nics' (Jake calls them Grums battle scars but to me their wounds of attrition ) to my hands later and they were done with no trouble at all. Strange that. Today's pics.

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Welcome to Eurobricks Peyj, it's good to have you with us.

Way to go André. It's a brilliant build, full of detail. I too would love to see more pics. Great work

You 'Ol Romantic you

Going by what I've seen so far I've a sneaky feeling that when completed this will be making it's way into the HoF.

My flabber is well and truly gasted!!!

That has to be THE perfect LEGO room/Man Cave. Checking ferry prices.......

Agreed. Really nice build. Any chance of a video?

My best bargains come from Free Ad websites/Papers and car boot/yard sales. It's almost always a case of right time & place and a good measure of luck. Wishing you all the very best in your quest.

Local yard sale. Right place, right time I guess.

Just bought 8043, 8110, 8258, 8285, 8275, 42054 all boxed & complete (if a little dusty) for £150 from a US airman about to head back home

Magnificent!

Very nice, instantly recognisable. Supported

I think these are all excellent but Woody & Buzz are my favourites. Great work

Build Day 2 - Days build time 2hrs 40mins / Total build time 8hrs 10mins Not much time to build today. Almost an hour of what time I did have was taken up trying to fit the two small assemblies (first pic below) but a good deal of patience (stubbornness!) had them in place. The rest of today's building went very well with no particular difficulties. Happy days Heres today's pics. As with yesterday's pics, I'm sorry about the quality. I've had the lens on my phones camera cleaned but the pics still aren't great. I'm not sure what's going on, I think I'll have to give Gilly's phone a try next time.

It's a rarity in this form as around only 20 were ever converted before Kia stopped selling the Sedona in the UK. The only vehicles that can have this conversion now are the Fiat Doblo & Mercedes Citan. As for me building it, I think that's a very long way off. I've many other things to build before I get to it. I'll just enjoy watching your build evolve.

It's coming on very well, I like it. I've been thinking of building a MOC of my own 7 seater (which has been christened Gandalf by Jake as he thinks it's magical ) for sometime now but it's a daunting task, for me anyways. It's a Kia Sedona (Carnival outside of the US) with a brilliant convertion which if I were to build it I'd want to include. I'd like to think I'll get round to building it one day. One day.

I tried to build a Brickheadz DT but couldn't get the hair right but you've got it spot on. Good work.

Excellent build Thank you for sharing the instructions.