Barge

From set 1615, a Basic Building Bucket from 1987:

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1972 Lego Train

Today we are building the train engine from Lego set 181:

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You will need one 6×12 baseplate and car or train wheels if you don’t have ready-made train parts. We built our baseplate out of two 6×6 plates with another plate under to hold it together.

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Simple Tractor

From set 6608, “Tractor” (1982):

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Basic Building Set Helicopter

Today’s model is a minifig compatible helicopter from “Basic Building Set 1879” from 1992:

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Moon Rover #2

Today’s model is another, slightly more complex moon rover from set 926 “Moon Radar Station” from 1978:

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MOC Mini-Steamroller

Today’s creation is a mini steamroller from a MOC (make your own creation) competition to create a vehicle using 15 pieces or less. Design is created by Alex Sonny:

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Basic Airplane

This is a pretty basic airplane from Basic Building Set 515 (1990):

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Blacksmithing Forge

Today we attempted to build a 2011 Lego Kingdoms set, Blacksmith Attack (6918):

6918-1This set is 104 pieces (including all the minifigs and tools). This set mostly uses types of pieces that are fairly common in current/newer sets, but it does require a few technic pieces for the moving parts.

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1994 Pizzeria & Pizza Truck

Today’s build is 6350 Pizza To Go (1994)/10036 Pizza To Go (2002).

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1978 Moon Rover

From set 493 “Space Command Center” (1978) and it’s international equivalent, “Command Centre”, we have a small moon-rover:

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