Yeargh!

[swestrup]

Now I know why I never tried to make the models that Lego kits always give instructions for. My color perception is bad. The colors in the book don't match the colors in the photographs, which don't match the colors on the bricks, which don't have consistent colors. So, I'm halfway through a bug and discover I need ANOTHER hinged green thing, but there aren't any more. So, maybe what I thought were suposed to be green were black? 20 minutes later I find that that theory doesn't work either, because some other brick is not found. Worse, I've just discovered a case where two bricks that appear identical in color in the manual (they actually abut) cannot possibly be the same color, because both shapes don't exist in any one color in the set! Of course, I had to go online to find an actual inventory of the set to prove this to myself. So, I currently don't know of any way to build the bug I'm working on, without just ignoring all of the color info. But if I do that, why build the thing?

Maybe I'll go back to what I always did as a kid: make up a tentacled, bug-eyed creature from whole cloth and to hell with a color scheme....

(And _sps_, I don't want you to take the above as some sort of condemntation of your gift. It is appreciated. I just sometimes wish I could see colors properly...)

Comments

[denizsarikaya.livejournal.com]

If you're making the big dragonfly, there's a diagram mistake. The 2x2 brick with a nozzle on one end actually has a hole drilled through its vertical axis but is pictured without said hole.

There was one other mistake I found, too -- in the crab, maybe? where they neglected to complete a step and you had to backtrack to fix it. But, yeah, I had problems and I have excellent colour perception.

The brown looks like burgundy (which there is one brick of) in the diagrams when it is near orange. Also, the black looks quite grey and the grey looks like a lighter grey. The orange often looks quite yellow, as well, to make matters worse.