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I finally completed building my Christmas present (2016) given to me by Mrs. FlyTexas. Procrastination thy name is Brian. She kept hinting around during the year about how she hoped I'd like my present. Needless to say I loved it. Behold the Lego Mini Cooper! 1077 pieces.







Brian

Procrastination thy name is Brian.

Never!

1077 pieces too. Did you get a big boy to help you or did you do that all on your own?


ATB
DaveB

Our first car (1968) was a Mini Countryman with outside wooden frames which had to be rubbed down and varnished each year.

Want! If only because I only ever had a Mini 1000 in real life...

If you like Minis check out Project Binki on YouTube, where in two men attempt to put a 2 litre 4x4 drive train into one!

DaveB wrote:1077 pieces too. Did you get a big boy to help you or did you do that all on your own?


ATB
DaveB

Funny you should say that... My younger son helped me with the build. The build went something like this. "Ok son, I'll build this page to this page, and then you can build up to this page. (Dad takes another gulp of Merlot) And son, could you double-check my work?"

Brian

Most impressive piece of work!

And to think when I was a lad we had to use that fun smelling glue to make a decent model of something!

FlyTexas wrote:I finally completed building my Christmas present (2016) given to me by Mrs. FlyTexas. Procrastination thy name is Brian. She kept hinting around during the year about how she hoped I'd like my present. Needless to say I loved it. Behold the Lego Mini Cooper! 1077 pieces.

Brian

Awesome

My first three cars were Mini 1000's. The last being bought brand new. The first two however were somewhat older.
I really like the last photo, showing the transverse 'A' series engine. I know this inside out, upside down and back to front, As I said, my first two Mini's were quite old and I had to do all the maintenance myself (with much help from my Dad). Including my Sister's Mini, I've taken apart and rebuilt just about every part, including 3 total engine strip downs, The only item that I was never brave enough to tackle, was the gearbox (but never had a problem. so not an issue).
As a child, I was also a great Lego fan, so can totally understand your joy with your present.

Cheers

Kevin

Woohoo!
What are the dimensions/scale, Brian?

Airspeed wrote:Woohoo!
What are the dimensions/scale, Brian?

The Mini model is 4 inches tall, 9 inches in length, and 5 inches wide...although it seems much larger. Specs on the internet show a real world Mini to average about 10 feet in length. The model is quite heavy. Very solid. It's weight including the cardboard box is 2.9 lbs. It's a great model which I can highly recommend.

Brian

Thanks Brian.
According to my reckoning, that makes it the old 9" to 10' scale.