Big Sith
Continuing my Sith theme, last night's build was the UCS Darth Maul bust ( 10018 ). This was a second hand purchase from Ebay but after looking for a while, I found someone who was selling what was clearly a rebuild but with all of the correct parts, including the very rare black quarter cylinders. In the end, what arrived came in a bin bag (!!! - though the most expensive parts had been separated into plastic bags) and was missing all of the 4x10 bricks. The quality of the bricks was wildly varying - clearly this had been put together from mostly second-hand bricklink orders. I ended up replacing some of the worst of the bricks from my spares and a couple of bricklink orders (I needed to buy the missing 4x10 bricks). I may well start replacing some of the worst of the remaining ones over time but that will be a long-term project... along with replacing some of the yellowed parts on my second hand R2-D2. So, after cleaning and sorting, the bricks fill...