my break from the copy-edits

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kniedzw gave me my Valentine’s Day present early, on the grounds that it would be better for me to have it before I finish the last major work on With Fate Conspire:

Four thousand two hundred eighty-seven pieces in twenty-eight sacks. Three magazine-sized instruction booklets; god knows how many steps in total, especially since after you go through all eighty-one stages (not counting sub-stages) to build one tower, you do it all over again for the second one.

This is gonna take a while.

I may photoblog the process. (And, as kniedzw suggested, try to stage that ending scene from Sherlock Holmes on the unfinished structure.)

0 Responses to “my break from the copy-edits”

  1. alecaustin

    That is truly awesome. I look forward to the photo-blogging.

    (My ex-roommate had the Eiffel Tower. It was over 3 feet tall. You could’ve impaled someone on that thing.)

    • Marie Brennan

      built the Taj Mahal at work. I have no idea where he put the finished product; it must be huge.

      (This one will live atop a bookcase in my office. Thank god for high ceilings, sez I.)

      • alecaustin

        …they have the Taj Mahal? That’s… wow.

        Man. I’m not sure if the Lego Star Destroyer is still the kit I want* most any more.

        *: This wanting is mostly theoretical. I would have no place to put the damn thing, since it’s, y’know, 3 feet long.

  2. twincy

    *sparky eyes*

  3. icewyche

    Oooohh…WANT.

  4. moonandserpent

    A) Neat!

    B) I think I’ve isolated a core difference in our personalities. I look at that box and the first thing I think is: “I bet you could make a killer spaceship out of that.”

  5. stevie_carroll

    That looks a lot of fun!

  6. mrissa

    That is love, is what that is.

  7. kadnkadnk

    I am intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

    Or, lego-blog. And I will subscribe my nearly-seven-year-old as well. Obsessed with legos, we are. 🙂

  8. gollumgollum

    Bwahahaha! You totally have to do, and photoblog, the Sherlock Holmes scene. 😀

  9. aulus_poliutos

    Oh, I want a Lego castle now, preferably modeled after a real one (a Norman whopper or one of those soaring mountain castles we have in Germany).

    • kniedzw

      Well, they have several options:Hogwarts,a generic fort, though they call it a castle, anda dark ninja fortress.That said, these guys built Neuschwanstein.

      • aulus_poliutos

        Neuschwanstein is one crazy castle. But it looks like they had fun with it. 🙂

        Hogwarts looks cool. Could make a birthday present for my niece who just discovered Harry Potter (the books).

  10. starlady38

    OMG, that is AWESOME. O_O

    If you want help putting it together, ever… *g*

    • Marie Brennan

      I dunno how long it will take. Or rather, how long it will last. I have a tendency to dive into these things and race to the end . . . .

  11. cloudshaper2k

    Okay, I am a little jealous. I love this set.

  12. desperance

    Yay documentation! Photoblogs are absolutely the thing; what is the point of the internets else?

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