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Wrecking Ball!!!

Mike Walsh — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:17:22 +0000

I have been putting it off but today I started taking things apart.� I�can hardly walk in my office at home there is so much stuff on the floor these days.� I have way more buildings than I could ever bring to a NCLTC layout.��I really got in�a bad�habit of building new things but never taking the old stuff apart just in case our layout was sparse and�needed some filler.�� I have buildings still assembled that are probably six years old.� I decided to take a few pictures as I did, making some last coments on some of my creations before they are lost to the brick pile.

LEGO Sorting on WikiHow

Mike Walsh — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:39:18 +0000

NCLUG recently had a sorting thread and this interesting WikiHow article came to light.� Sorting and storage has always been one of the things which has frustrated me with LEGO.� I never seemed to have the right answer.� Right now I am using Plano boxes and LEGO tubs for most of my storage and have some large RubberMaid tubs for some larger things.� There always seems to be be something to sort though and something which doesn’t fit in the current storage system!

Looking inside my UTB K8

Mike Walsh — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:42:19 +0000

Here is the box as I opened it although the baseplates were not stacked so nicely.

I pulled the baseplates out first and set them aside.� I had specifically asked for baseplates because the last time we had the NCLTC layout set up, we were really short of baseplates to cover the open areas of the layout.� It looks so much nicer when everything is covered!

Now you can see what is left to sort.� I have no idea why they couldn’t put each element into a separate bag but they didn’t.� I guess this is a good problem to have but it is still a daunting sorting effort.

This is as much as I got done yesterday.� While I was on a conference call I sat there and picked all of the bright green large plant leaves out of box.� I had requested both large and small plant leaves and they were sent in two different colors!� The smaller leaves are the traditional darker green, the larger ones are the bright green.