8002: Destroyer Droid 664

Posted by Tom Fri, 13 Oct 2006 18:13:46 GMT

Yesterday I received my 8002: Destroyer Droid and built it. Apparantly the instructions were faulty, because I received a supplement with it. It was quite a hassle to get it correct.

4481: Hailfire Droid 505

Posted by Tom Mon, 09 Oct 2006 18:21:00 GMT

Today I received the 4481: Hailfire Droid from majewede, which I bought via eBay. As it’s a pretty old product (2003), it’s also pretty hard to get. It has these two great “wheels”, which I’m planning to use for the NXT.

Ofcourse I had to build the Hailfire droid, before I dismantle it again and use the parts for my NeXT project. Here are some photos of the finished product:

Actually the droid is pretty big, the wheels alone are about 21 centimeters in diameter. The laser-cannons are made of 30 the same pieces. The wheels are really spectacular! This shows something of the size of the wheels.

8285: Tow Truck 2001

Posted by Tom Sun, 08 Oct 2006 14:30:00 GMT

Saturday I bought the 8285 set: Tow Truck, which is rather new and all over the shops in Holland. I bought this one with TOYS-R-US.

Some photos of the building phase and finished product:

I’ve found a problem with the instructions, they put the wheel caps (front) one module too far to the front, making the front-wheels slip against it.

No stickers by the way, I don’t really like putting them on, because it makes that you can not reuse the parts.

Five minutes after this photo I started dismantling the whole thing again, which took about an hour.