***The Official OcUK Lego Thread***

[Burned_Alive]

I had the Porsche GT3 delivered yesterday, got it for £131 from Very (might still be stock (20% off for new customers purchasing with credit)).

Any mods I should do whilst building?

Pretty certain there's a gearbox mod to make it run more smoothly. Think the original was out of sequence as well.

 

[Psymonkee]

I built a thing! Some seriously flimsy bits on it though as others have said!

 

[413x]

Never really fancied the slave. Something about it always looked a little.. Off. Can't put my finger on it!

Took so long

 

[DampCat]

You're brave

 

[EddScott]

has anyone managed to resell the Lepin kits?

Can't see you having a problem selling them on using the more obvious routes. As long as you're clear it's Lepin rather than Lego.

My Falcon is genuine but SSD is Lepin.

 

[413x]

Yeah ebay will be fine. Always see lepin sets on there.
I don't know if it's across the board but I got 3 pound sellers fees this weekend which is great for high price items

 

[SixTwoSix]

@413x I'm doing the MF build at the moment, it's so utterly satisfying and i've only done the first two parts. The size of the manual is insane.

@Psymonkee Slave will be my next kit or perhaps the Y Wing...can't decide.

 

[McDaniel]

after the Falcon Coffee table i said no LEGO for a bit...

Ooops.

 

[413x]

Saturn V is a lovely model.
I do need the ship in a bottle

I also looked at the chiron. Thought it looked nice. Then I saw the price! Wtf

 

[bloodiedathame]

Pretty certain there's a gearbox mod to make it run more smoothly. Think the original was out of sequence as well.

Ordered the 30 or so parts required for £3. MOC found, but it's a shame I've got to take apart what I did today.

 

[ShadowMan]

Thanks for suggesting eBay. I hadn’t thought of it being Lepin.

I’ve got the same £3 listing offer so may dig out tomorrow and take pics and get them listed. Not going to get my money back but better than sitting boxed in the loft doing nothing.

It’s the older style UCS MF too so prob harder to shift. If they don’t go I’ll keep them for when the kids leave home and as youngest is 2 that may be a while lol.

 

[2004typer]

What an epic build!

 

[iv-tecman]

after the Falcon Coffee table i said no LEGO for a bit...

Ooops.

Nice little haul. I've got the Bugatti and Saturn myself, enjoy.

 

[iv-tecman]

Finally finished my Lego Porsche using the modifications on Rebrickable.. Come on a long way since set 8860 back in the 80's.

Bugatti next.

 

[iv-tecman]

Saturn V is a lovely model.
I do need the ship in a bottle

I also looked at the chiron. Thought it looked nice. Then I saw the price! Wtf

I also chocked at the price, but I used my Lego VIP points to buy it. That helped soften the blow.

 

[heeeed]

Finally finished my Lego Porsche using the modifications on Rebrickable.. Come on a long way since set 8860 back in the 80's.

Bugatti next.

I loved my 8860 back in the day. Birthday and Christmas pressie combined. I was well stoked when got it

 

[Diddums]

8860 was my unicorn, always wanted that set but sadly never got it. Glad to see someone keeping it alive!

 

[_Jimlad_]

I bought a Lepin UCS millennium falcon and super star destroyer last year. Love the kit and Went together well and was happy having them in the office. We now have a 2nd child and I have had to put them in storage asno room having given up the office to be a bedroom again.

Question is. Has anyone managed to resell the Lepin kits? Whilst I know people buy and import I’m not so sure about selling on. I won’t have a chance to build them again and unlike official kits they aren’t going to go up in price (I’m keeping my real UCS Red 5 and Tie Fighter). I’m not sure on if I can even list them somewhere like eBay or Gumtree etc. If it’s not easily doable then they can live in the loft until kids move out in 15 years.

You can sell lepin on eBay for now. It was being reviewed but at this time you can.

 

[theone8181]

I've got the kids a large outdoor playarea to build, when me and the Mrs finish it I've told her I'm treating myself to the snowspeeder. I like the bigger star wars sets (un)fortunatley and the snowspeeder may be approaching EOL.

 

[kaiowas]

Similar to the above, it was pretty much my best xmas ever when I got the 8860. I ruined it though, built it once on xmas day then somehow lost the instructions so could never build it again (my best guess is that they were still in the box when that got thrown away). Once I got my Lego back from my mums a few years ago tracking down instructions on the internet and rebuilding it was the first thing I did. Since then I seem to have picked up a couple more as I seem to have at least three now.