Anyone ever looked into building Lego MOCs from Rebrickable and buying the parts from Bricklink? Being the space geek I am, I'm looking at building this to go with my collection: https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-75438/0rig0/spacex-falcon-9-crew-dragon-saturn-v-scale/#details Should just come to below £50 which I think is a bargain had it instead being officially packaged and sold as a complete set in a shop

Hey Andy I haven't done a Lego MOC set yet. Only recently learned about them from @Owain

Yip, I've built and designed my own too 😄

The plane is cute Owain

Thanks. I need to get some more designs online. Just need to find time!

Awesome Owain, great work. Yeah I last used Bricklink just after Xmas to buy a shed load of 2x1 blue transparent bricks to add to the left, right & back sides of this fish tank: https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/fish-tank-31122 I think after postage it came to nearly £20 and thankfully I only had to deal with one seller lol I do find it cool these days that you can take a design somebody else has put a lot of time and effort into building, export the parts list and throw it into BrickLink to buy all the parts needed. I'm currently playing around with the new Mindstorms. You code it in a similar interface to Scratch, but there is the option to code in Python (which I have zero experience with). My next project is to build a printer which can scan a picture and draw it concurrently. But need some of those tiny chain links to drive the print head back & forth.

We have the fish tank too - My wife has it in her office 🙂

Ah found the picture....

I think you have both made my Lego addiction open up to a whole new world with MOCs

nice! 🙂 Might need to do something like that too. Looks good.

Whats the best sites/links to look at for all this stuff ?

All I know so far is that Lego had their own tool which they've recently discontinued in favour of the Bricklink Studio (which Lego also owns): https://www.bricklink.com/v3/studio/download.page But Owain may know more given he's already done 3 haha

I know it's not Lego, and some people won't be ok with knockoffs, but AliExpress sells some insane sets, both MOCs and Lego sets. I've bought some giant star wars sets that I'd never own otherwise, and will likely go back for a big Millennium Falcon soon... Quality is indistinguishable from Lego, at a fraction of the price

Got an example Nath ?

Actually, yourwobb.com is probably better than Ali. Little more expensive, but way more reliable

Does it just come in a bag with no instructions from some random in China?! Would make it a more challenging build without instructions

Definitely comes with instructions! Even in numbered bags!

hahah HARD mode 😂

Ye, I've used yourwobb a lot - it's what got me back in to Lego. 😄 The other site is https://www.joytoyworld.com/ - same company just some different sets.