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3.6.37: Tiago Catarino's grave
Jan. 8th, 2022 01:04 amI continue to love this final section. This stage has a bunch of neat tech, and also a delightful easter egg. Here's the mise-en-place.
Before we get into the build, let's talk about that easter egg: this piece.
The initials "TC" have now appeared in three sets, that I'm aware of. Tiago Catarino is a YouTuber who used to be a designer at Lego. This story is related in his review of the set, but I'll also tell the quick version here: In 2018 he designed the Ship-in-a-bottle set, and included a tile with his initials. He left the company in 2019, but before he left, he pitched the idea of a Titanic set, though he was not involved in the actual design. Later in 2019, the company released the Haunted House set, which included this exact tile as a gravestone in the yard, and also there was an organ in the house that was referred to in the build instructions as the "Organ of Catarino." Then, perhaps because he pitched the idea that led to the Titanic set, the designers included the same tombstone tile here, buried in the ship's body where it won't be visible in the final build. It's worth watching at least a few minutes of the video; he didn't know the tile was included, and caught the moment where he found it on camera, and his excitement is delightful.
The TC tile shows up right at the start of this stage, on this sub-assembly.
I wasn't sure exactly what I was building, but then I added some hull tiles and it became clear.
Next, I added some structural elements to the wider end of the build.
Next I built what I think is the last set of hinged pieces to create the non-Lego-angle shape of the stern.
I added some more internal structural elements.
Next came what may be my favorite tech so far in the entire build, though I didn't know it would be that for a bit yet. I started by building an innocuous-looking red strip...
I still didn't quite know what I was building, but then I built a propeller.
This was already pretty neat, but it would soon get even cooler. I set the above sub-assembly aside and started on a different red thing.
I completed the rudder and attached it to the main build. In the next photo, it's connected to the central shaft from the previous stage.
At this point, it was linked to that central shaft, but nothing was preventing the whole rudder sub-assembly from rotating freely along with the shaft. I was about to fix that, but first it was time for a trivia break.
I wrapped up this stage by securing the rudder assembly in place and adding some more structural elements.
I'm really enjoying the clever ways this section is taking shape. I hope you are as well. Thanks as always for reading!
Discussion prompt: When have you been pleasantly surprised by an acknowledgement or reference to your involvement in something?
Before we get into the build, let's talk about that easter egg: this piece.
The initials "TC" have now appeared in three sets, that I'm aware of. Tiago Catarino is a YouTuber who used to be a designer at Lego. This story is related in his review of the set, but I'll also tell the quick version here: In 2018 he designed the Ship-in-a-bottle set, and included a tile with his initials. He left the company in 2019, but before he left, he pitched the idea of a Titanic set, though he was not involved in the actual design. Later in 2019, the company released the Haunted House set, which included this exact tile as a gravestone in the yard, and also there was an organ in the house that was referred to in the build instructions as the "Organ of Catarino." Then, perhaps because he pitched the idea that led to the Titanic set, the designers included the same tombstone tile here, buried in the ship's body where it won't be visible in the final build. It's worth watching at least a few minutes of the video; he didn't know the tile was included, and caught the moment where he found it on camera, and his excitement is delightful.
The TC tile shows up right at the start of this stage, on this sub-assembly.
I wasn't sure exactly what I was building, but then I added some hull tiles and it became clear.
Next, I added some structural elements to the wider end of the build.
Next I built what I think is the last set of hinged pieces to create the non-Lego-angle shape of the stern.
I added some more internal structural elements.
Next came what may be my favorite tech so far in the entire build, though I didn't know it would be that for a bit yet. I started by building an innocuous-looking red strip...
I still didn't quite know what I was building, but then I built a propeller.
This was already pretty neat, but it would soon get even cooler. I set the above sub-assembly aside and started on a different red thing.
I completed the rudder and attached it to the main build. In the next photo, it's connected to the central shaft from the previous stage.
At this point, it was linked to that central shaft, but nothing was preventing the whole rudder sub-assembly from rotating freely along with the shaft. I was about to fix that, but first it was time for a trivia break.
I wrapped up this stage by securing the rudder assembly in place and adding some more structural elements.
I'm really enjoying the clever ways this section is taking shape. I hope you are as well. Thanks as always for reading!
Discussion prompt: When have you been pleasantly surprised by an acknowledgement or reference to your involvement in something?