Lego Firemen

Cool new lego fireman minifigs that came with the fire truck sets Justin and I recently built. I've decided to start a lego blog for the projects we've done together. That can be found here.

Rescue Copter

Lego Recuse Copter. Justin put together just before I left for a long weekend trip. He's really getting good at following the pictoral directions without my help. This set was small enought that he could search for all the pieces he needed himself. I really like this helecopter. It looks just like the big Coast Guard Copters that roar past the bluffs by our house.

Lego trucks from the past

Lego Police Station 381 cira '79

Found the directions to this set #381 from 1979 online and decided to build it for Justin. He helped out looking for pieces in our massive bucket but I ended up doing most of the construction myself after he went to bed. We have almost all of the pieces for the set, still in good condition. The only stuff I was short was one complete window setup and parts of another. But one is complete. There were also not enough of the blue cylinders used for lights... I had to substitute green for the lights next to the door. Justin was psyched. We've been playing with it for about a week now. I have some other old sets... to follow in later posts

Lego Cargo Ship

Justin and I built this cargo ship last week. His new Lego magazine came in with the brand new Maersk Container Ship in it and Justin decided we should build one out of our own stuff. So we did. He had a great time loading it up with stuff, mostly the small cars he had won at the Jugleplex food/fun day. I made the hatches detachable and later hinged. There is another shot without the yellow railings. I like it without, but once I found more of the railings we added them all the way down the deck.
This ship is now gone... a victim of the old lego set renaissance that followed. I found the instructions online for a number of my old sets and immediatly set to work rebuilding them. More on that in the next few posts.

Legos

The first car was a birthday gift that Justin and I built the morning of or around his birthday.
The rest were built in June. We had a great time building all of them but the Aquaraiders submarine was the tops. Justin was very patient and it took us most of a Saturday morning. He is really getting good at putting the pieces together and checking with the instructions. I love building with the boy...he shares his old man's passion for the plastic brick.