1.2.5: Engines and a pool

[jae_builds]

Section 2, as I mentioned last time, is the rear half of the bow, which includes the "Bridge & Funnel", as the section is named.


But those are both up on the primary deck, which we won't get to until much later in the section. For this stage, we're instead building out the lower part of the frame, and building the rooms on the lowest levels, which include the engine room and the pool, both of which are pretty cleverly represented.

Mise-en-place:


Here's the base of the frame. Those slatted pieces will become the floor of the engine room.


There are four engines going across the width of the ship, and they're each built identically, so I took the opportunity to take one photograph showing four stages of the build construction at once.



(Do people want me to keep including photos of these captions and trivia when they appear in the build instructions? Let me know how you feel in the comments below.)

Then I put these weird triangular structures on top of the engines. The engines obviously don't have any studs on top, so these are attached to the bar behind the engines and just rest on top of them, suspended from that bar.

I was confused that the right-most engine didn't get the same top as the other three, until I realized they support the floor above this one, and the rightmost engine is directly below the swimming pool.


Then I built this neat splayed platform thing. The white pieces are attached using ball-socket joints, so they can attach to the rest of the build at a non-Lego angle using a 1x1 plate, as you'll see in the second photo below.




And that's it for this stage. There are some more bonus photos in the Google album, but nothing I haven't shown here. I'm really excited about the rest of this section; there are some elements that look really neat and that I'm looking forward to seeing how they're actually constructed.

Discussion prompt: What's the largest and/or most dangerous piece of machinery you've ever worked with or been around?

Comments

[mehinton99]

Tough choice, as I was a farmer on a dairy farm with full haying and feeding operations. Certainly the feed mixer was dangerous and huge, and I lost a good pair of gloves and a really good steel knife in it. I never found the gloves but the knife was gradually spat out in pieces. The baler and our largest haying tractor were also extremely dangerous since you would routinely go in and under the parts of them that do the chewy grindy bits in order to unclog them during heavy cuts. Honestly though the most dangerous was arguably the relatively small baleage wrapper that was operated manually by a switch and levers right next to the hip-high giant spinny carnival-ride for giant hay bales to get wrapped in plastic at high speeds, always got twisted up with high tension every few bales, and untwisting it meant reaching into the machinery and cutting through the plastic with a knife while the whole thing was in neutral so it didn't snap back when the tension was released. Lots of bits that are bad for people parts to be near, but were necessary to be near and sometimes in.

[jae_builds]

I was hoping someone who had done farming or other industrial work would reply. Balers are fascinating and terrifying.