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I use a large roll of white paper. If handled properly, it doesn't crease as easy as a fabric background and even if it does get creased, you can just tear that section off the roll. You should also avoid any sharp angles in the paper background. In other words, if you suspend your roll of paper, allow the paper of hang and curve gently onto the floor. Don't crease or fold the paper, this will be visable on your photograph. This is the roll of paper I use. You also need to have good lighting. It is best to have 2 identical light fixtures placed at roughly a 45° from the centre of your model. This ensures that the section of your model you are photographing has even light coverage and that any shadows caused by one light is moreless canceled out by the other light. You should also make sure that you lights have sufficient diffusion on them to scatter the light to soften any shadows that are visable. Once you have taken your photos, you can enhance your images by using software such as GIMP. You can follow this excellent guide by @Sariel that shows you step by step how to get professional looking photos.

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I agree with other people, there is room for improvement here but this is a very nice model nonetheless, good work

OMG, he has given the LEGO community so much, including myself with parts my artic lorry. I didn't even know Ingmar had ALS so I am truely shocked and saddened by this news . May you rest is peace Ingmar. Thank you for all your contributions to the community, you will be sorely missed by us all. I hope you are now finally free of your illness where ever you are. I can only wish my sincere condolences to Ingmar's friends and family. ❤️?????

Very nice model and a clever design. Awesome work.

No problem. Nope I am Cornish not Welsh. The United Kingdom of Great Britian and Northern Ireland (to give it its full name) is officially split into 4 regions, English, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, think of them as states or provinces (e.g. the USA has 50 states, the UK has 4), each province is then split into Counties. Cornwall (see outlined area in red on this map) is a County in the province of England, however, most native Cornish people deem that Cornwall is a septerate province due to our culture, heritage, language and serveral other things but the British government refuses to accept this although Cornish people are now considered an ethnicity minority in the UK. I live in the Country of the UK but I am Cornish not British. I hope that makes sence. Lol my accent is more Southern English than Cornish, some words I say my Cornish accent comes through quite strongly but I don't think I sound overly Cornish. A lot of Cornish people have really strong Cornish accents and a lot of English people can't understand them, which is something that we sometimes have fun with during the tourist season. Dreckly, My ‘ansum or Me 'ansum, Emmet and Shag (has nothing to do with sex) are some of the more well know slang words we Cornish use all the time. If you read through my posts I tend to use Twas or Tis alot. Search on YouTube for "Jethro Comedian", he's a famous Cornish comedian, this gives you an idea of what us native Cornish people sound like, Ill let you decide if you like our accent or not and if you think Jethro is funny or not. But be warned that his content contains swearing and adult humour, hence why I didn't embed any video. I did followspot for him once and Cornwall's main threatre in Truro, it wasn't easy doing followspot properly while your laughing so hard. Good, glad it makes sence to someone other than myself. Of course, I am still figuring out in what order I want things in and getting all the labels done, Ill then post some pictures for ya.

A kids toy at that . Even though some AFOL still can't use a "kids" toy *cough* Power Functions *cough*.

Thanks, glad you like it. I have no idea. I have never been to Ireland so I couldn't possibly comment . Joking aside, I am 5'6" and I can just about reach the containers on the top shelf. I have put the Technic parts I never use but may prove useful at some point on the top shelf. The parts I use all the time are closest to where I build, those parts I use less are further away. Once I have done all the labels, I will post an updated picture so you'll be able to see what I mean. There is logic behind my madness. The shelving units are ~1555mm tall, taken from above the desk. The desk is ~700mm above the floor. The top shelf is 2160mm above the floor. Thanks, I am Cornish not Irish, Cornwall is part of the UK, although I am not British. That would be like calling a Scottish person English lmao .

Nope, I have no issues with talking about LEGO in real life, indeed I am proud of the fact that I am a 30-something woman who plays with LEGO, its another thing that makes me unique. I also have no issue with taking my creations out in public to play with my them and if someone stops to have a looks at my model, I will quite happily talk to them about it. A few months ago I had a hospital appointment in Exeter, on the way back I stopped in Dawlish and did some tests along the sea front, I had an old couple stop and check out my lorry, we were chatting for about 10 minutes about my model. I don't see why I should hide the fact that I am a LEGO fan, if someone doesn't like me playing with LEGO, they can just keep walking or they know where my front door is. It sucks that you were bullied at school due to your hobby, I was bullied at school (for different reasons) and it sucks. But think of it this way, having a LEGO hobby makes you different and unique, and that's a good thing, those other people clearly lack the intelligence to build cool models which makes them "normal" and therefore boring. If you are able to build awesome models out of simple plastic bricks, it shows your brain is capable of doing things other than pen-pushing if you wanted to. Don't think of you LEGO hobby as a guilty pleasure but as something to embrace and exploit, if people don't like it, that's their problem, not yours.

Your welcome, happy to help . That doesn't surprise me, sometimes different shops/companies here will call the same thing different names. I'm just going by what B&Q call it as I got the edging strips from them.

By slats do you mean the edging strips on each shelf? Is so, they are called flat D moulding, similar to these: https://www.diy.com/departments/pine-d-shape-moulding-t-4mm-w-21mm-l-2400mm/1821931_BQ.prd This link is for D shape moulding but I am using flat D shape, difference is only one corner is curved but they are moreless the same thing. We used 13 in total, they are 2400mm long, each shelf is 800mm long so we got 3 strips out of 1 moulding. The above link is to B&Q's website, they are a chain hardware store in the UK. The sell all sorts of wood, tools, screws/nail, plumbing hardware, electrical hardware, kichens, bathroom, paint, wallpaper ect ect. Browse their site and you'll see the range they offer. Hope that answers your questions.

Time for the final update and after playing with LEGO on the floor for the last 25 years, I now finally have a proper workspace to build my models. A shot of the LEGO desk of my dreams . I am yet to vacumm up the concreate dust from drilling onto the walls and sort all the cabling out. This is the L-Shaped shelf on the right side where I have put my 1x1 storage bricks for my Power Functions and other electrical stuff. This image shows two of the three big errors I made on this desk. First, I painted the wrong edge of the vertical piece. Second, I painted the wrong edge of the horizontal piece. I shall fix this and paint them next week sometime. The third error, which was the biggest error, was I made the vertical uprights on the desk shelving units about 10mm too long so we had to cut them in order to fit them between the desk and the ceiling. We ended cutting them by 50mm just to be on the safe side. This is the small shelf on the left side of the desk for my telephone and WiFi router. These are the steel brackets we put under the desk to stop the weight of the shelving unit warping the desk. These brackets are not screwed into the desk, just the wall, they are just there to stop the desk warping and not to fix the desk to the wall. Thanks to @neonic for suggesting this idea. Here is a close-up of the LED light above the desk. I haven't put the light all the way out to the end of the piece of wood, its current location means that the light is in the centre of the building area so any shadows are directly below what I'm building and not off to one side. This image shows how we attached the wall unit, the back part of the metel plate behind the upright is screwed into the wall, but we hide them. The thing to the right side of the image is my computer desk. This shows how we attached the top of the wall unit to the wall. We did the same thing to the big desk shelving units to prevent them from toppling over and smashing something. Here is a shot of the plastic food containers I have my LEGO parts in on the shelves. I have yet to finalise the locations of the parts, I need to play around to find what order suits me best. I am waiting on a label maker to come from Amazon so once I know where I want everything, I will put labels on the edging strips. Now I have built these shelving units and put my LEGO on them, it seems I didn't have as much LEGO as I thought I did. I think I somewhat overestimated the number of shelves I needed, then again, that's a good thing as it means I have plenty of space to buy more LEGO . Here is a close-up of the left side shelving unit. I have sorted my LEGO by part type not colour. At the moment I don't care about sorting them by colour but I may to later on......one step at a time. This project has been good fun to build (apart from the hours of gloss painting) and I am really really pleased with the results, I have to give thanks to my Dad for helping with this project as without his help, I wouldn't have been able to build this. I hope you like the finish product as much as I do. Sorry and thanks to the mods/admins for putting up with me spamming this thread, I shall stop the spam now .

Thanks alot, I'm glad you like it. Yes, B&Q provide the cutting service for pretty much all wood you buy from them, you can get them to cut a massive sheet like we did, or just a single cut on a length of 1x1 batten. Yes the cutting service is free for the first 15 cuts, after that they normally charge about 0.50GBP per cut over the 15 free cuts. However when we got them to cut the 2 12mm plywood sheets, we went way over the 15 cuts but they didn't charge us for it. The 0.50GBP per cut thing is one of those things that is depends on the mood of the person cutting the wood. Sometimes they charge, other times they don't. As for the cutting plan. I printed off a birds-eye view screenshot from SketchUp (see below), marked out all the measurements of each piece I needed and handed that to them. We also wrote on the paper the order of cuts, e.g 1st cut, 2nd cut ect. The person who cut the wood was able understand what we wanted and cut everything perfectly. We did the same thing for the other 2 sheets of plywood. Hope that helps. Anything other questions just let me know. Indeed, I am grateful to @neonic for rasing the warping issue so I could put these brackets under the desk. Thanks again for that neonic . I shall be posting the final update to this in a minute so chances are by the time you read this, there will be another update below .

Time for the penultimate update to this build. Today I finished all the gloss painting on the bigger shelving units ready for installation tomorrow. Since I finished the painting on the wall unit yesterday and it is now dried, I decided to nail on the edging strip and bring it back to my flat so we had more space in Dad's car for the desk shelving units. Once I got it home, I put the wall unit on the desk to so I could see how it would look and to test fit the plastic containers. Here is a close-up shot of a selection of tubs placed onto the shelf to give you an idea of what is will look like once it is complete. I actually have two different sizes of these containers, 250ml and 500ml. For those parts where I have too many to fit into one container, I can stack a 250ml and 500ml, just like in this image, this is part of the reason why I decided to make the spacing between each shelf more than was need. Last night after posting the my reply to @neonic regarding warping on the shelving units, it got me thinking. While that issue may or may not happen on the shelves given the fullness of time, I realised that the desk unit would be the most likely part to start warping due to the weight of the two large shelving units as they are quite heavy and there is nothing under the desk to prevent any warping. Thus I decided to add a couple of steel L-shaped brackets under the desk in the center of each shelving unit. Although one metal bracket may be enough to stop the desk from warping, I cannot do that due to there being an electrical socket on the centre. I obviously don't want to BBQ myself with 230VAC and my landlord would freak out if I drill holes into the building's electrical system so if I add two brackets in the centre under each shelving unit, this should stop any warping and prevent a BBQ'ed Morgan. Thanks to neonic for bringing up the warping issue . My Dad will be coming over tomorrow to help me install everything. We should have everything done by mid afternoon, so as soon as we've finished, I will post the final update to this build.

Thanks you so much . Yeah I have a decent amount of LEGO. What you see in the second image of my first post of this topic is about 60% of what I own, I have sorted most of my Technic stuff out now, I also have about 1900 parts on my artic lorry and all my system bricks from when I was a child (which I never use now). That said, one can never have too much LEGO and my collection is growing all the time . Each shelf is 800mm (31.49inch) long and can hold 6 plastic containers so there is not a huge weight on each shelf, however they may warp downward a little but I wouldn't think they would bend too much, this is why I didn't go for MDF which is much cheap and chose 12mm hardwood ply. It was the more expensive option but its less likely to bow over time. I have the option to add a piece of 2x1inch batten at the back of each unit with a 15° slot cut into it if the bowing becomes an issue later on. This is one of those things I have to try out and see if it becomes an issue, if so I can come up with ways to fix and reverse the bowing.

Just a quicky, I have now finished the gloss painting in the smaller wall unit and have almost finished the gloss painting on the desk shelving units. I just have the underside of the shelves to paint now. I'v always hated gloss paint and I hate it even more now but the shelves do look good so at least my perseverance is paying off. I haven't bothered to paint the back of the shelving unit as they will be fixed to the wall so there was no point. I have also not painted the front of the shelves as there will be those edging strips nailed to them. The edging strips I have desided not to paint. I kinda like the pine on white contrast. Ill post another quick update tomorrow again once I have finished the painting and have attached the edging strips. While I was over my parents today painting, I arranged for my Dad to come over on Friday to install the shelving units and fit the small shelves under the desk for my 1x1 storage bricks and my telephone/router.

I quite like this set, anyone know what scale this is because if its roughly 1:16, I may have to get this to put on the back of my lorry when it's done. I think this would look sweet chained on a drop-deck trailer.

Time for another update, although just a mini update this time. I was able to get a little bit of gloss painting done on Sunday but because my nieces were running around all over the place, I didn't trust them not to touch the shelving units while the paint was drying so I only got half of the wall unit painted. I wasn't able to get anything done yesterday (Monday) but I did manage to get the first coat of gloss done today on the tops of the shelves. I am going over to my parents again tomorrow to give the top surfaces a second coat and then give the bottom the the shelves its first coat. Half way though painting today I ran out of gloss paint so I popped over to B&Q to get another tin. While I was there I picked up 5 of the 13 shelf edging strips I needed, These will go on the front of each shelf to stop the food containers sliding off the shelf. B&Q sell these in 2400mm lengths, this photo is after cutting them down to 800mm, the length of the shelves. These strips are 21mm wide and 4mm thick. Once nailed onto the shelves, there will be 9mm flange above the shelf that the containers will rest on. I haven't desided if I will gloss these pieces or not yet, it depends on how they look unpainted when I test fit them onto the shelving units. I want to avoid painting them if I can but it might look daft if I leave them unpainted, Ill figure that out tomorrow. Sorry that the second image is a little out of focus. I will try to post another quick update tomorrow once I have given the top surfaces a second coat and the bottom surfaces its first coat. I will get the bottom surfaces repainted on Thursday and I am hoping to get the shelving units fitted on Friday as that's the last chance Ill get unit next Wednesday.

Time for another update on my progress. As I said in my last update, we missed the shelf with a nail on the second shelf on the first unit. We have now corrected that. Out of 116 nails we used to attach the 29 shelves we nailed, we only mess up 6, but since they were small thin nails, after we pulled them out and redid them. you wouldn't notice anything. Out of 36 screws used on 9 shelves, we messed up 1 of them, but again, one would never know looking at that shelf. Considering neither Dad nor I are carpenters, I don't think we did too badly. Dad and I built the third and final shelving unit today which will be mounted on the wall. In total, all three shelving units took less than 1.5 hours to build including glueing, nailing/screwing and fixing the ones we messed up thanks to the jig I showed you in my last update. I'd hate to think how long these shelving units would have taken if we built them manually. This is a shot of all three shelving units next to each other after we gave them a base coat of emulsion paint. This photo is of some extra pieces we cut, from left to right: Worklight bracket to be attached to the top and in the centre of the desk shelving units, Telephone and WiFi router shelf to go under the desk on the left side, The two right hand pieces are for a L-shaped shelf for my 1x1 storage bricks (where I store my Power Functions stuff in) to go under the desk on the right side (we need to cut the right most piece down to the length of the second from right, something we forgot to do today). The next step is to repaint all these parts with white gloss paint like we did with the desk. I hate painting with gloss paint so this next step is going to suck, especially the shelves due to the limited space between each shelf (100mm). It is unlikely that I will post any updates for the next 2-3 days. As I said in my last update, we have a family get-together and BBQ tomorrow so I doubt Ill get much gloss painting done tomorrow and since gloss takes ages to dry, it will be at least Tusday before all the shelving units are dry.

That's a good idea, I might do that at some point. Won't be for a while though, getting everything built and painted, getting all my parts sorted and putting labels on all the bins is the most important. Once that is all done that I may do that, thanks for the tip .

Of course the prices will be cheaper, your in Asia.

I just gave the prices from the LEGO website just to give you an idea of rough price range. The sets you said about are listed in the cheat below: 10255 - LEGO website - £179.99GBP | Azla.co.uk - £176.48GBP 10243 - LEGO website - £142.99GBP | Azla.co.uk - £113.95GBP 10260 - LEGO website - £129.99GBP | Azla.co.uk - £103.90GBP 10261 - LEGO website - £299.99GBP | Alza.co.uk - £245.65GBP (I have never heard of or bought anything from Alza.co.uk so I can say how good or otherwise they are. Google just kept saying that they were the cheapest on all these sets)

Thanks, glad you like it. Feel free to steal my design, I have to make a couple of small corrections to the SketchUp drawing as I didn't allow for the thickness of the saw blade in it. Once I've corrected it, Ill share the SketchUp file so you can build it yourself if you wanted

Sure, the NASA Apollo 11 Lunar Lander (10266) - £84.99GBP ($113.14USD) New York City (21028) - £44.99GBP ($56.56USD) Mack Anthem (42078 - £139.99GBP ($176.00USD) (prices taken from the LEGO website) However just keep in mind that the UK in one of the most expensive Countries so prices here are always way above most other Countries. Take the 10266, according to the LEGO site, in the US, that set sells for £99.99USD, in the UK its $113.14USD.

As planned, Dad and I went down to B&Q in Penryn today (friday) to get the wood for the shelving units. They were kind enough to cut the two 2440x1220 sheets down to the sizes we need completely free of charge. They normally limit you to 15 free cuts then charge ~0.50GBP per cut thereafter. All this wood is 12mm hardwood plywood. The four long pieces are for the desk shelving unit uprights. The big stack are the 38 shelves, the single small piece is the bracket for the worklight shown in a previous update. To ensure all the shelves have consistant spacing between them and they are all at a 15° angle, I designed this jig to make building the shelving units easier and quicker. This shows how the jig worked. We did one unit then had tea (or supper) and then built the other unit, the second unit took 24 minutes from start to finish to build thanks to this jig. This is a shot of the first 5 shelves on the first unit. The first (closest to the camera), the eighth and the fourteenth shelf are screwed in, the rest are attached with 30mm long panel pins (small nails). We never noticed this when we built the unit, but only when uploading these images, you can spot one nail has missed the shelf, we will correct this tomorrow. Lining up the nails and screws to the shelves was the trickiest part of building these shelving units. I think the one of the second shelve was the only one we messed up but I will double check tomorrow. Here is one of the desk mounted shelving units built. After I took this photo, we put the two units next to each other just to see what they would look like, they are much better than I thought they would. My Dad is working until 1400 tomorrow (sat) so when he gets home and has chance to chill out for a bit, we are going to build the final shelving unit which will be mounted to the wall. We still need to get the edging strips to go on each shelf to stop the food containers sliding out, but since we need something like 30 meters of the stuff, we won't do that tomorrow. Sunday we have a family get-together so the edging strips won't be done until sometime next week. I will post another short update tomorrow for the wall unit. Anyways, hope you like them as much as I do .