The dark side of the brick

It's been a busy few months - since I last managed to post, I've spend 2 weeks in Singapore, 2 days in KL and 10 days in HK, as well as going to Wales (a week), Scotland, Wales again, Stratford-upon-Avon and Paris for long weekends.  I worked out that by the end of June, I'll have spent 90 days out of 181 in the first half of the year away from home.  With nights out and time spent with the (very understanding) wife, that's not left much time for Lego.  Lockdown wasn't fun but it did leave lots of time for hobbies! So, here's a bit of a round up on the deconstruction I've managed to do.  My tracker says I'm now 72% of the way through my collection, though I've got stacks of boxes which are still waiting to be built up, so I'm not going to run short of things to build for a while. First up is the Child, aka baby Yoda ( 75318 ).  This is an ok display set but a bit dull to build (like the more recent Yoda, there is too much plate-work filling out t...

Today continues the AT theme with the 2014 AT-AT ( 75054 ).  This pretty much follows the format of yesterday's post on the AT-TE... a second hand set from ebay which turned up dirty, yellowed and with missing bricks.  I've managed to already replace all but 3 parts from my spares and the others are on order but it's still disappointing when you get poor quality sets.  Still, this one was pretty cheap, all told so I'm not complaining too much. Build was fine and there's a reasonable amount of detail in here.  But not amazingly fussed by it... though perhaps that's just because I'm really tired.