Swan Tower

There was enough interest in a photoblog of my progress on the Lego Tower Bridge that I decided to go ahead with it.

Here's something you have to understand: I love spatial stuff. Every Christmas, my mother, my brother, and I do a holiday jigsaw puzzle. I think they're generally a thousand pieces -- whatever fits on the kitchen counter, anyway -- and we polish them off in a few days flat, in part because I will kind of just sit there and put pieces in until somebody makes me stop. A few years ago I suggested we try one of those 3D jigsaw puzzles, and ended up doing ninety percent of it myself, because I was the one who really wanted it; the puzzle was Neuschwanstein, and it still sits atop my desk at home. Last month my mother said I could have gone to work for Lego as one of their designers, and it's probably true; spatial reasoning has always been one of my strong suits.

So this is a most excellent present for my husband to have gotten for me. And, like the Christmas jigsaw puzzles, I'm inclined to marathon on it unless somebody makes me stop. Since I have work to do, I've imposed a self-restriction, which is that I'm only allowed to play with the Legos while watching movies with friends. At the moment, we have plans to do movie double-headers every Sunday night for a while, so you'll likely get Monday updates to the photoblog.

Behind the cut, for the sake of people's flists, you'll find the progress from Day Zero and Day One.

( Also an explanation for why there's a Day Zero. )

Anyway, it's good progress. I'm maybe twenty percent of the way done, though it's hard to judge for sure, since some pages are a lot more complicated than others. I haven't yet finished the first booklet, though. That will have to wait for next Sunday, when I get to work on this again.