Do you build the B model?

jenjenten

Ideally one would have two sets of everything to build A+B, but that is very expensive ....considering the high price of Technic sets i personally build both

To add value and longevity to the buying/building experience before the A model goes on the shelf.

Pity though Lego don't create C models...good thing about Lego is if you have enough sets you can build any other set in their catalogue

Mint Sauce

jenjenten wrote: »

Ideally one would have two sets of everything to build A+B, but that is very expensive ....considering the high price of Technic sets i personally build both

To add value and longevity to the buying/building experience before the A model goes on the shelf.

Pity though Lego don't create C models...good thing about Lego is if you have enough sets you can build any other set in their catalogue

Have a cojple of my childhood models on display at home. One of them is the B Model, due to missing peices, and not the correct 'doner' peices from a third model, I was unable to rebuild the A Model. Even the B Model had to be built with few 'doner' bricks. Ie. A black/yellow/gray brick instead of red one.

I like to think of the third model being a breakers yard for the other two.

sullivlo

I regularly break down my A models to make the B models and leave them on display.

I had a few spare parts so did my very first MOC. Just a pullback car and very basic but I will build up to it. And the next time I see a kit with a motor on offer I will buy it for parts.

prospect

I will always build the B model at least once, but usually the 'display' sets are the A model.

However, one of my first technic sets was 8862 (A=Backhoe & B=Combine Harvester). I loved it as a kid and made both the A & B model regularly. In later life I spotted the set on EBay and bought it, so now I have both A&B models built on display.

ShadowHearth

When I was a kid I would build those regularly. I have not built a single one as afol yet though.

I haven't seen a single B model that would I the rest me too.

jenjenten

ShadowHearth wrote: »

When I was a kid I would build those regularly. I have not built a single one as afol yet though.

I haven't seen a single B model that would I the rest me too.

I built the B model of the new 42024 and it was brutal! :mad:
Loads of parts not used, and it looked like crows had picked it clean!

It was all "framey" with no meat!....you need a tons of parts to fill in all the blank spots

The B model of the tractor is really good!....a dune buggy with a lovely working piston engine....very clever design!