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Time to find them all a temporary home. This bookshelf will do for now until I finish up the display cases.

I've made up some small signs for when these get put on display. Just a tile and hinge and my label maker and a sharp knife. They work well on small, medium and large sets alike. Hope you like!

Thanks! Just when I though I was done I found three more! The Radar Truck, set 889 from 1979, Moon Buggy, set 6801 from 1981 and Space Digger, set 6822 from 1981. I wasn't sure I had these until I saw there three packs that were available back in the day. I have all six vehicles and I believe the three on the left I purchased individually and the three on the right i bought as a set.

Alright! Most of my Bricklink order arrived. Time to get to work making each one correct. I also got a backdrop. It's a cheap plastic table cloth that I can cut into smaller pieces for the display cases I'm making. Here's a few glamor shots.

I plan on making some display cases, each to three baseplates. Here I've begun to split the sets and plates up to get an idea of how they'll display best.

Thanks! My granddaughter came over tonight and got to enjoy them with me! I've started on my display cases, but I'll start a new thread for them when the time comes. I'll keep you posted.

Wow! Got my Bricklink order for missing pieces put together today. 150 unique pieces and over 700 pieces in total! Now there tons of trans color blocks in there and a few dozen replacement minifig hands plus some extras I'm replacing just because, but I am totally surprised at the count and the cost. Over $150 just to restore a bunch of old (classic) lego sets. But, it's worth it!

Found some more! Duplicates of Surface Transport, 6823 and Space Patrol, 6803. A final count shows me at 33 sets total! Wow. I'm just blown away by that number! Next project will be building a modular display case to display some of them. I plans to build 5 cases, each about 12x12x32 inches, enough to display 3 base plates in each with an inch of overhang on each side. I'll build a 5 sided glass box for each and turn it upside down to keep the dust out. Each one will have a drawer underneath to store instructions. Plus they can hang independently on the wall or stack on top of one another. I also plan to add LED's to each to light them. But more on that later! Thanks for all the positive comments so far! I'm glad some others have enjoyed seeing these come back to life. I've had such a blast with these I'm going to move on to my classic city sets next!

Thanks everyone! It's been a really fun 10 days rebuilding all these. Three more tonight; Space Dart 1, 6824, from '84, the Surface Rover, 6804, from '84 and the Space Buggy, 886, from '79. That's a total of 27 sets I've been able to save! I know there's parts in there for at least 2-3 more. Here's my pile of remaining unique CS pieces. Given all the thrusters and wings and minifigs I have left maybe there's more than 3 sets left to build. I'm going to go to Bricklink and start searching for some sets that's share some of those parts. I'll keep you posted. I'd love to be able to have an even 30 sets left from my childhood!

Glad everyone is enjoying! The last week has been fun! I've built 22 sets so far and have the instructions for three more. Today I built the Space Probe Launcher, 6870, from '81, the Lunar Rocket Launcher, 6881, from '84 and the FX Star Patroller, 6931, from '85. My list of parts for Bricklink is getting long! I have one more ship to go plus two small sets. It's getting harder and harder to find substitutions and I expect this last ship to be just a shell.

As promised, some of the small sets. I got 6 built this afternoon. Lots of missing transparent pieces, plus some antennas and ladders, but nothing too major. These little sets are so plain and low in parts count, I'll probably order us a few extra tools or lights for each to help spruce them up if I permanently display them.

Thanks! I always recall taking good care of my toys, I guess my LEGO wasn't an exception. I built two more tonight, the Solar Power Transporter, 6952, from '85 and the Space Supply Station, 6930, from '83 when I was 10. Here's all of them together. I have about 10 more small sets to go. Mostly single minifig craft or vehicles. I'm less motivated to do those as they all require lots of round transparent plates or blocks and I'm done to almost none. If nothing else I'll finish them just to be able to put together a complete Bricklink order.

Got two more done tonight. The All terrain vehicle, 6927 from '81and the Uranium Search Vehicle, 6928 from '84. The builds are getting harder and easier. Harder in that the supply of parts is getting thin and easier cause the supply of parts is getting smaller to sort through.

Great news! I found my old space lego instructions! My father saved them for me as a kid and passed them on to me later. I knew I had them somewhere and it took an hour of my wife and me looking to find them. Well worth the effort! As promised, a base plate set! This time the Intergalactic Command Base, 6971, from '84 when I was 11. There were a few unique parts missing including a 4x10 trans yellow panel and others that I'll have to order. Here's how they all look now, coming together nicely if I do say so myself. I think I'm going to order some more base plates. These ten are mine but I'd like four more to display the dozen or so sets I still have left to build! Speaking of base plates, I gave these last two a five minute soaking in Oxy Clean then a scrub with a plastic brush and they cleaned up nicely. I look forward to my next sets even more now that I have the instruction manual for most of them! Looking at the pile of bricks and number of minifigs I still have left I still have a long way to go.

No worries, looks good, great photos too! I had some extra flexible joints left over and wanted to figure out where they went. Turns out they belong to the Walking Astro Grappler, 6882, from '85 when I was 8. Somehow I was missing two 2x2 blue plates! The pile is shrinking bit there's still lots of sets in there. Up next is a set with a base plate or two!

I did another last night, the 6820 Starfire 1 from 1986. Since I was 13 years old at the time I think this might have been on of my last sets. I picked this to build simply because of the unique cowl piece, I really didn't recognize it as a CS piece intil I went looking online. As my pile gets smaller it's getting more difficult to figure out which sets I actually own. One tip I read is to look for unique pieces like cowls or canopies to determine what sets I might have. Now if I can just find my stash of CS instructions I'll be golden.

Thanks! Indeed it's part 812. Looks like I got them from The Public Works and Train Crossing sets.

I have some classic space sets and some classic city sets. I thought they might be used in a garage or hooked together on a space set. What do these go to?

The second time.around is pretty fun too! With space to spread out I can stop and start whenever I want. Came back to it tonight for an hour and did another. The Surface Explorer, 6880 from '82 when I was 9. I picked it because I wanted to get rid of some of my wheels. Think ill build something with a base plate next.

Thanks, having lots of fun building! I should be asleep but I did one more this evening. The Mobile Rocket Transport, 6950. This one come from '82 when I was 9 years old. It has several missing pieces including the 1x6 trans yellow side windows. As I've built each of these four sets I've kept track of the missing parts and will order them up through BL.

After completing my new MF 75192 build I was feeling a little empty. I decided to break out my big box of classic space sets from the 70's and 80's. My table is used for all my other hobbies and turned out perfect for this project with plenty of room to spread out. I started with the Galaxy Explorer, 497-1. I was just 10 years old in '83 when it was released and it was the ultimate space lego set that year. I believe it was also my last (major) set as my interests started to wane as I got older. After that I moved on to the the Galaxy Commander, 6980. I was just 6 years old in '79 when it was released and recall it being a bit of a challenging build. Fast forward nearly 40 years and it went a little easier. Next up came the Alpha 1 Rocket Base, 483. Also a 1979 release it was a pretty simple set but came with a rocket and a crater plate, very cool to a 6 year old kid. With the ships done I also built the vehicles that came with them and finished their landing pads. My pile has shrunk quite a bit! In all I believe I have 10-12 classic space lego sets mixed up in there. I think I'm going to keep going and keep building sets until the pile is gone!

Some glamor shots. Also built the Alpha 1 Rocket Base.

I just broke out my old space lego and built both!

Sure, it was easy, I just removed lots of pieces. The pic below is of the bottom section. I removed all the red, and removed the white and yellow hinges. I used a 2x4 plate to seal the hinge line and make it non flexible. Same for the top, I just kept removing pieces until it sat flush.

I filled in the area between the mandibles. I covered the plates using only greeblies I had left over from the build. I also moved the landing light in, again more to scale. I need to replace them with yellow or clear, and get them lit next!