# Giant Lego Aircraft Carrier Finished **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 17, 2007, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-lego-aircraft-carrier-finished/412178 "2007-07-17T19:53:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-lego-aircraft-carrier-finished/412178/1 "2007-07-17T19:53:25Z")
I’ve seen pics of the work-in-progress linked here before, but now [it’s finished](http://www.megabunny.com/massive-lego-aircraft-carrier/). Made by Malle Hawking, it’s a scale model of the USS Harry S Truman. It includes electric lights and motors, too. On a side note, what’s this about [Brickshelf shutting down](http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=126969)? ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2007, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-lego-aircraft-carrier-finished/412178/2 "2007-07-18T02:37:28Z")
I hear it is being deployed to the Horn of Africa for use in surface and air surveillance in Operation Enduring Freedom. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2007, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-lego-aircraft-carrier-finished/412178/3 "2007-07-18T03:00:43Z")
Give 'em hell, Harry! Ahh man, and it’s to mini-figure scale too! That is a thing of beauty. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2007, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-lego-aircraft-carrier-finished/412178/4 "2007-07-18T07:09:37Z")
Bloody hell! ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2007, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-lego-aircraft-carrier-finished/412178/5 "2007-07-19T11:11:09Z")
Just…how? ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2007, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-lego-aircraft-carrier-finished/412178/6 "2007-07-19T11:42:49Z")
thats wicked. I like the comments at the bottom: (In reply to two people saying that the guy who did was a loser) > [@](#): > > Neon and TekGuy - Get a life. What did you two accomplish in a year that is so awesome. 2 level 70 character in WOW don’t count. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2007, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-lego-aircraft-carrier-finished/412178/7 "2007-07-19T11:53:00Z")
The lego person scale is the nicest touch to it all 🙂 Makes me want to dig up all those old bricks and make something out of them all. Sadly most of them seem to be red, precluding me from building an Enterprise :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2007, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-lego-aircraft-carrier-finished/412178/8 "2007-07-19T12:20:44Z")
Sure the ship is impressive, but the aircraft look like they took more skill to figure out. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2007, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-lego-aircraft-carrier-finished/412178/9 "2007-07-19T16:55:08Z")
How: He built it in sections, kinda slicing the ship up. You can see the seams [here](http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1812420). It has accurate detail on the [inside](http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1405858), too. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2007, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-lego-aircraft-carrier-finished/412178/10 "2007-07-19T18:14:23Z")
[QUOTE=garygnu] How: He built it in sections, kinda slicing the ship up. You can see the seams [here](http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1812420). It has accurate detail on the [inside](http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1405858), too. [/QUOTE] Now I’m confused. Why does the process of building the thing in sections leave visible seams behind? I mean, they’re LEGOS! Why would the finished product display larger seams than the relatively tiny one between any two bricks? I would have thought that, even if the sections don’t actually interlock, it should be possible to snug them up together neatly so that the seams don’t show. ---
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2007, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-lego-aircraft-carrier-finished/412178/11 "2007-07-19T18:30:47Z")
My inner child is jumping up and down and clapping it’s chubby little hands with glee! “Can I play with it? Can I, please?” ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2007, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-lego-aircraft-carrier-finished/412178/12 "2007-07-19T19:28:45Z")
[QUOTE=Terrifel] Now I’m confused. Why does the process of building the thing in sections leave visible seams behind? I mean, they’re LEGOS! Why would the finished product display larger seams than the relatively tiny one between any two bricks? I would have thought that, even if the sections don’t actually interlock, it should be possible to snug them up together neatly so that the seams don’t show. [/QUOTE] Evidently, the ship was built in sections so it’s transportable. As for why gaps are visible between them, if you look at the left side ofthe hull in [this pic](http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1405858), (especially to the immediate left of the upper blue section) you can see that the bricks don’t stay together perfectly, so it’s understandable that there’s some accumulated error in something this big, and the mating surfaces are a bit bowed, preventing them from sitting side by side perfectly. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-lego-aircraft-carrier-finished/412178/13 "2007-07-20T00:44:43Z")
**gotpasswords** : that makes a good deal of sense. Perhaps unsurprisingly, I myself have never attempted anything of this magnitude, but I can see how tiny differences could accumulate like that. I can’t get over how cute the little tableaux are. [Medic!](http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1298145) ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-lego-aircraft-carrier-finished/412178/14 "2007-07-20T13:18:10Z")
But how’d he get so many grey legos? ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-lego-aircraft-carrier-finished/412178/15 "2007-07-20T13:38:14Z")
Yeah, does anyone else seem to end up with an awful lot of red Lego bricks from the basic buckets of bricks? ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-lego-aircraft-carrier-finished/412178/16 "2007-07-20T14:32:47Z")
It is possible to order plates / bricks / whathaveyou from the Lego group. [http://us.factory.lego.com/pab/](http://us.factory.lego.com/pab/) Or better yet, check out > **[BrickLink - Buy and sell LEGO Parts, Sets and Minifigures](https://www.bricklink.com/v2/main.page)** > > Bricklink® is the world's largest online marketplace to buy and sell LEGO® parts, Minifigures and sets, both new or used. Search the complete LEGO catalog & create your own BrickLink store. (Like eBay for Lego pieces) Brian ---
**Author:** ![FlyingDragonFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c89c15/32.png) [@FlyingDragonFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingDragonFan)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-lego-aircraft-carrier-finished/412178/17 "2007-07-20T15:31:49Z")
Very impressive. I also like the added touch of the accompanying half-submerged submarine. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2007, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giant-lego-aircraft-carrier-finished/412178/18 "2007-07-23T15:37:11Z")
I am awestruck. I hope it will visit both Annapolis and the _Truman_ itself on its worldwide tour.