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

The introduction to Section 2 in the build instructions: "Section 2: Bridge & Funnel. In this second section, the hull reaches its maximum width, 18 modules or roughly 5.6 in. (144 mm). Inside the hull, you will begin construction of the ship`s cross section, including part of the swimming pool, the grand staircase and one of Titanic`s boiler rooms. You will also build the iconic bridge house and the first of four funnels." The description is repeated in French and Spanish.

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.
A build that extends from the width of the previous section at its widest point, to something six studs wider. At the rear of the build is a 4x14 area, raised up slightly from the lowest floor plate and covered mostly in slatted 1x2 Lego pieces.

A build that extends from the width of the previous section at its widest point, to something six studs wider. At the rear of the build is a 4x14 area, raised up slightly from the lowest floor plate and covered mostly in slatted 1x2 Lego pieces.

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.

On the bottom of the image is a deconstructed engine, consisting of a cylindrical tube, a wheel, a technic pin, a blue 1x2 brick, and two translucent orange triangle blocks. Above that, the orange blocks have been placed on the blue brick. Above that, the blue brick and the wheel have both been placed onto the technic pin. Finally, that whole assembly has been placed into the cylinder, so the blue and orange are just visible through the holes in the wheel.

All four engines, fully built and placed onto the main build. The lighting is such that you can clearly see the blue and orange showing through.

A caption from the build instructions: "175 firemen worked around the clock shoveling coal into the engines` furnaces." The caption is repeated in French and Spanish.

(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.
The leftmost two engines have left-facing triangular structures on top of them. The right central one has a right-facing triangular structure, and the right-most one just has a flat platform that is one stud shorter than the triangular structures.

The leftmost two engines have left-facing triangular structures on top of them. The right central one has a right-facing triangular structure, and the right-most one just has a flat platform that is one stud shorter than the triangular structures.

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.
The traingular structures now have grey plates on top of them. The flat platform has a 1x2 translucent blue brick lying on its side on top of it, such that the `top` (or rather the upper-facing side) of the blue brick is level with the plates.

The traingular structures now have grey plates on top of them. The flat platform has a 1x2 translucent blue brick lying on its side on top of it, such that the `top` (or rather the upper-facing side) of the blue brick is level with the plates.

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.
A 1x8 yellow strip, with two 2x6 pieces covered in flat white plates sticking out of it at obtuse angles.

A 1x8 yellow strip, with two 2x6 pieces covered in flat white plates sticking out of it at obtuse angles.

The previous sub-assembly attached to the main build, with one of the white legs sticking up, and a 1x1 circular plate on the main build below it ready to be connected to.

The white leg has now been attached in position, with a sliver of the plate beneath it showing through as it extends out at an angle from the main line of the build.

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?

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