I finally have finished all of my hot projects. It is time to get back to this. This is the NES of set 71374.
This had been sitting on the corner (big mistake!) of my build table. Then one day, I hit it with an elbow and the above picture is the result. There was so much going on, that I decided to leave it where it landed. This went on for many weeks.
After finishing all of my builds and with Space Port still in its carrying cases, the build table was finally clean. I finally picked up the pieces and this picture above is what I had. I actually had to do some disassembly to determine where the pieces went, as the picture below shows. Fortunately the rotating screen did not get damaged other than a few cosmetic pieces.
After about 20 minutes I got to this point in the picture below, with the help of some coffee. Again it was a combination of disassembling the dislodge "chunks" and then reassembly on to the main piece.
At this point it is mostly assembled into the rotating screen, the case and the front panel.
Here is the TV assembled. Missing two pieces, square brown tile and curved gray tile. Also two extra pieces, 2X2 black brick and a 1X2 nougat tile.
Searching around the room and every corner I found the square brown tile and the curved gray tile. I looked though the manual and could not find the 1X2 nougat tile. This may have fallen down from other parts that I bought over the last year. Every instance of the 2X2 black brick seemed to be installed as I once again went through the manual. So again, I assume it fell on the floor at a different time.
I made some changes to better lock the TV to the stand as shown here. The issues is the bottom of the TV and top of the stand are both socket sides, thus there is no inherent connection.
I moved the 3 1X8 Light Gray plates. The two on the side now fit into the slots in the stand. The one in the back is up against the stand. Those three were part of the set. I added the 2X6 brick as extra alignment. Thus the TV cannot slide on the stand, but is not connected to the stand.
This picture shows the changes to the stand. The 2X4 plate and two 1X6 stacked plates meet up with 2X6 brick I added. Again there is no connection, this just forces a four sided friction fit.
The next two pictures show the connectors I built. First a rendering blow up.
And the one I built.
This is how they are placed in the corner at the back.
Then a 2X3 plate and a 1X2 plate are placed on top to lock the TV to the stand.
This is a minimal connection. You could put these connectors in the front corners also to provide a better connection. But doing so means they can be seen. Since I did not have any parts in the stand color, I went with the back only.
This will keep the TV from sliding of the stand easily. Doing this before may have given me an opportunity to catch the TV/stand before it fell of the table top. So this makes the TV and the stand more of a connected unit, but it will slide across a table.
Happy Holidays!
