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It's been a long while I know but following a visit to my Dentist today I came away with not only a clean bill of health but a belated Christmas present... No more chipped teeth. Thank you Andy.

Happy New Year one & all. May 2016 bring you good health, much happiness & good fortune.

Your daughter looks so proud and why shouldn't she, it's a great honour to have your model in the National Tug Museum. Very well deserved. I visited the Sleepvaart Museum in 1981 or 1982. It was a really nice little museum with some really interesting exhibits. From your photos it's come a long way since then.

Instantly recognisable. Another great build.

I recently had the same problem. Do I sell or do I keep. In the end I did what other members have said, kept a few & sold the rest. If you're not likely to use all of them & could do with the money it makes sense to sell them, they make good money. The 15 I sold raised a lot towards my Lego shed. I had 17 buggy motors that were surplus to requirement and sold them to the same person. I kept 4 & have another 6 in sets so still have more than I'm ever likely to need.

Presents given. Slaps received. Job done. Hope you've all had a fantastic Christmas.

Good to have you with us. Hope you're having a great Christmas.

Mrs Grum made a pre-emptive strike by presenting me with MY Christmas list this year. An A4 sheet with the words Lego and Technic emblazoned all over it. Both sides! Taking this of on a slightly different tangent. Do any of you buy spoof/funny/windup presents. My example of this would be the presents I've bought for my Daughter in Law this year.

:classic: Have a great Christmas.

BNISB 42030 100% complete but with badly damaged box £53.

Although my speed has improved I've not deliberately set out to build faster. I'm not one to rush building, I wouldn't 'speed build' if I could, I want to enjoy & learn from the process (I'm of an age where learning takes a little longer than most ). At the end of the day, we're all different. We all build in our own way and at our own speed and that's just as it should be.

Now that's what I call Awesome!

I keep the majority of my boxes. One's from small sets I tend not to keep but the large ones yes, definitely. If I buy a used set that has no box I'll buy one if I can.

The speed at which I build has definitely gotten quicker. My first build was the 8258 and that, building almost every day, took around 20 weeks. By comparison, my last big build was the Jurgens Ultimate 42009 with Christophe Moitees extended boom and that was completed in around 33 building days. I didn't set out to build quicker. Any improvement is down to finding better ways of doing things and preparation. I look through the instructions the night before a build day and try to work out the best way of doing each of the next day's stages, fore warned is fore armed & all that. Also, I think a growth in confidence with each build I do has helped but I guess that's the same for the majority of us.

Very eloquently put, that's exactly how it happened. Obviously you're a 'fellow sufferer'

It was my first ever Technic build which made it worse!

Lazy Note I had a tripod with a mount for my phone. I knocked it while manouvering my wheelchair causing it to fall over and hit the 8258 I was intending to photograph. It was at this point gravity took over and sent it cab first to the floor. The result wasn't pretty

My setup for photography involves the timer function on the camera of my Galazy Note 3, a very unweildy 'holding' of the device between my wrists, my nose to press the camera icon to start the timer countdown and where ever the build to be photographed happens to be sitting at the time. Reading the posts above I'm starting to think there may be a better way

Thank you. I very much look forward to seeing the pics.

Great news Edwin. You're going to be very, very busy in the coming years

What a great space. I look forward to seeing it when you've finished.

Surely the value of any set comes down to what someone's willing to pay. The above is a case in point. Around a year ago I paid £158 for a BNISB 8461 Dealer Edition which to many I know is very cheap but I wouldn't have paid more than that for it. As many of you know I recently sold a load of sets to buy my LEGO room and the 8461 Dealer Edition was one of those, the buyer paid £385 for it which I was more than happy with but as I said I wouldn't pay that much. The buyer had his idea of the sets value, I have mine.

Thank you for bringing to my attention a problem I had no idea about in such an interesting way.