Okay, so I’m assembling sets in order to start shooting (the video is broken up into three main locations: Tournament Field, Archery Field, and Market). This will require me to assemble a bunch of stalls for merchants, some bleachers/stands for the audience plus a viewing box for the Duchess and Count, and obviously some assorted other stuff.
I’ve got rudimentary bleachers assembled and 3 little stalls, but for everything else… I think I’m gonna need to organize my LEGO. I currently have about 20 ziplock bags of different sized pieces, but that’s a suboptimal way to find specific things…
I’ll have to see if I can get something like a screw-sorting-drawer thing. My collection isn’t huge, but I have a lot of stuff I need to disassemble in order to be able to easily find the stuff I want to use in order to build sets…
I dunno. Maybe I’ll just muddle through this movie and then organize for the next? I’ll think about it.
Anyone have suggestions on good sorting solutions for a reasonably large LEGO collection of pieces?
I’ve been storing my legos by set in small plastic bins, but I am also finding that suboptimal for finding pieces when needed. I’ve started sorting the non-set pieces (extras, a couple random buckets of bricks, etc.) in the screw organizer kind of things for small pieces and small plastic bins for larger pieces and even that much has been a daunting task. I keep debating organizing everything by parts, but it would take me months.
I bought some bead boxes for organizing my smaller LEGO, and gosh, my collection is a lot larger than I thought. I think I managed to get most of the small plates (1x1s up to 1x2s) organized, but that barely put a dent in the collection.
For the bricks themselves, I think I’m going to have to use one of the linked Akro-Mils. Maybe two. I’m gonna order those right now.
I’m also building the new Viking Village (which is amazing thus far), and sets for the movie (at this point mostly merchant stalls for the opening narration and for a few of the action scenes… ooh, that reminds me, I need to build a Barrel Seller stall). Pictures soon!
Got some Minecraft Lego for the boy, and I’m low key impressed by how it’s organised these days. Five bags, so we can pace it over five days, and the first bag leads with the minifig, then into boring structure, and closes out with some portals (or whatever they are, I’m not that familiar with the scene) to spike his interest just as he’s flagging. I assume the other bags are similarly paced.
My 11-year-old niece and I put together one of her Christmas presents yesterday. She did the building. I mostly found the pieces for her next step and served as a technical consultant when she had difficulty.
