Does this blog post count as an aviation post or a non-aviation post? It is about Lego so let’s say it is non-aviation. However, some of you may beg to differ. At the Lego Awesome exhibition, there were a few different aviation subjects that were on display. They had gone for scale in what they built and had selected subjects that had scale too. How much more scale could you go for than an Antonov AN-225 Mriya. They had a model that was half of the 225. One side was the complete airframe and the thing was cut in half to show the interior of the jet. It was a huge build and very neat. Using a technique like a fueling team under the wing to provide support was very clever.
A Mil Mi-26 was the other large scale subject that I liked. The 26 is a beast of a helicopter and quite unlike anything else. They had done a great job of modeling it in UN colors dropping loads in flight. Suspended from the ceiling it looked really cool.