X-Wing attack
Last night's build was another x-wing, but after two of the more recent vintages, I went back to the early 2004 version ( 4502 ). In common with a few of my recent ebay purchases, this one was also missing pieces and had a range of colour swaps (mainly reddish brown for old brown and LBG for LG). So, once I'd cleaned and inventoried it, I then spent the best part of a month slowly buying the missing parts. I'm still not quite there (found a couple more missing parts as I built and I've still not got the chrome lightsaber handles) but I was close enough to build. The first thing I noticed about this set is that it's in old colours and must have been one of the very last sets to have been released before the full switch across. Indeed, the set was originally from 2003 and my version is the "Original Trilogy Edition" re-release from 2004. It's an interesting question as to whether I prefer the old Lego colours of my childhood or the newer colours from...