{"id":57,"date":"2009-07-08T09:34:48","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T14:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/?p=57"},"modified":"2011-03-03T11:58:59","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T16:58:59","slug":"lego-carousel-build-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"Lego Carousel &#8211; Build Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230; what can I say&#8230; this is an incredible build!<\/p>\n<p>I do a bit here and there, then walk off and do other things&#8230; so far I figure I have put about six hours of work into it, and it still isn&#8217;t done.<\/p>\n<p>The detail is amazing, with lots of very small bits attributing to the detail.\u00c2\u00a0 My only complaint about the set so far is the stickers, which I hate. I have started to hate them for a number of reasons now:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The essentially limit the use of the piece that they are stuck to.<\/li>\n<li>Over time they either fade or fall off, though I do have some stickers on pieces that have been there for 30 years. (My Shell oil tanker comes to mind&#8230; though I haven&#8217;t ever pulled the tanker portion of that set apart in that same amount of time <em>because<\/em> of the stickers&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>Whenever you have a large set of stickers, or at least a large sticker sheet, invariably the sticker sheet has become crumpled during packaging and shipping. This is true of both the carousel that I am working on now and with Town Plan (10184) which had bent letters for the cinema sign.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230; what can I say&#8230; this is an incredible build! I do a bit here and there, then walk off and do other things&#8230; so far I figure I have put about six hours of work into it, and it still isn&#8217;t done. The detail is amazing, with lots of very small bits attributing to the detail.\u00c2\u00a0 My only complaint about the set so far is the stickers, which I hate. I have started to hate them for a number of reasons now: The essentially limit the use of the piece that they are stuck to. Over time they either fade or fall off, though I do have some stickers on pieces that have been there for 30 years. (My Shell oil tanker comes to mind&#8230; though I haven&#8217;t ever pulled the tanker portion of that set apart in that same amount of time because of the stickers&#8230;) Whenever you have a large set of stickers, or at least a large sticker sheet, invariably the sticker sheet has become crumpled during packaging and shipping. This is true of both the carousel that I am working on now and with Town Plan (10184) which had bent letters for the cinema sign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lego"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.inthewings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}