Status – Mark Pospesel (Coding and Other Stuff)

Fixed it.

Blue and green LEGO Classic Space astronaut minifigures crew the rover from the 2024 set number 60431. Posed on a pair of classic gray crater baseplates from the 1970's.

Fixed it.

Spaceship from the 2024 Interstellar Spaceship LEGO set piloted by a purple Classic Space astronaut. Posed on a classic gray crater baseplate from the 1970's.

Fixed it.

Spaceship from the 2024 Spaceship and Asteroid Recovery set piloted by a blue Classic Space astronaut. In the background a green Classic Space astronaut lifts a purple crystal from an asteroid.
Science station and crane from the 2024 Spaceship and Asteroid Recovery set operated by green and yellow Classic Space astronauts. Posed on a classic gray crater baseplate from the 1970's. The printed computer slopes and tools have been replaced with versions from the 1970's and 1980's, and printed yellow and black hazard stripe tiles have been added to the crane and tool rack.

Fixed it (and used a printed tile and some printed slopes where some of the stickers would have been).

An orange LEGO classic spaceman drives the mech from the 2024 Space Construction Mech set. Posed on a classic gray crater baseplate from the 1970's. Some of the stickered parts have been replace with old printed elements from the 1980's.

After a green Christmas and New Year’s, snow is back! Went for a snowshoe hike up at Raten in -7°C temps on a foggy morning. I was the first hiker of the day, so I had to break trail the whole way. Tomorrow is forecast to be even colder.

A leafless tree covered in snow on a foggy morning.
A snowy field bordered by conifer trees covered in snow on a foggy morning.

10320 Eldorado Fortress (2023)

The completed Eldorado Fortress (I forgot to photograph the two boats). The modular sections can be combined in various ways, two of which I show here. I really enjoyed assembling this with my son. Now we need to convert the shipwrecked Black Seas Barracuda from the Pirates of Barracuda Bay set into an intact ship to assault the fortress.

The completed LEGO set 10320 Eldorado Fortress with the sections arranged to form an entirely enclosed square fortress.

Dreikönigskuchen

Happy Dreikönigstag (Epiphany)! We’re not religious, but we celebrate by eating Dreikönigskuchen. The one we ate this morning was so good that we bought another in the afternoon! My wife was “king” again for the second year running, which is only fitting.

Dreikönigskuchen: a sweet bread with 6 lobes around a larger center. The bread has chocolate chips in it and is decorated with slivered almonds.

Eldorado Fortress Bag 10

Eldorado Fortress Bag 10/10: We add a corner tower that serves as a prison and a couple short sections of battlements. I really like the red tiled awnings over the two windows and cell door, especially with the two shades of red used.

LEGO build of set 10320 Eldorado Fortress in progress. An L-shaped section with gray rock foundations and a white tower with yellow and dark red accents built atop it. The tower holds a prison cell and a soldier stands guard up top (facing away).

Eldorado Fortress Bag 9

Eldorado Fortress Bag 9/10: We build the foundations for the final section of the fortress. There’s a basement storeroom with treasure accessed via ladder and trapdoor. A pirate skeleton is wedged into the rocks. There are some loose floorboards through which pirates can escape and reach the beach. The final bag will be some sort of building on this foundation.

LEGO build of set 10320 Eldorado Fortress in progress. An L-shaped section of dark and light gray cliffs speckled with green foliage. Some water flows out from a cave to the turquoise waters of the beach. A red crab is in the water.

Eldorado Fortress Bag 8

Eldorado Fortress Bag 8/10: We build a small tower with a crane atop. This is a huge improvement over the small flimsy crane in the original set.

LEGO build of set 10320 Eldorado Fortress in progress. A small white and yellow tower with a black crane atop. The crane lifts a brown treasure chest.