Wha-wha

I just returned from vacation with the happy sight of my August part order for the Falcon waiting for me!

I happily tore into the package only to find that in my haste to place the order before I left, I signed up for the wrong color...for this little cone I needed 56 of...UG!

More Bricks Arrive!

It's been a awhile since I last ordered parts for the Falcon, mainly because of the way I was going about putting together the orders.

Previously I was looking at the next few steps and ordering just what I needed to complete those steps. However, what I noticed is that as I ran out of certain common parts, every month I was ordering 5 or 6 '1 x 4 Light Gray Plates'.

So I changed my strategy a bit: instead of ordering just the parts I need to complete the next steps, I'm taking a few months and ordering only the parts that need the most of and selecting from sellers that have the best price on those parts.

Yeah!

The happy sight!

This means that I made an absolutely huge (for me) order of 1133 parts from hefBricks with about 200 of those 2x3 Light Gray Plates. His prices were fantastic and even offered discounts of lots larger than 20, 50 or 200. AND he included package tracking so I could indulge in my obsessive package tracking tendencies!

An evening of good beer and
inventorying LEGO. It doesn't get
much better!

The only problem with the order. Still
that's only a 0.08% error rate, pretty
darned good!

If my numbers are right (big 'if' there) this brings me up to 3290 of the 5192 parts that I need. Over half way!

Now I have my August order on deck with another 343 parts, they should be waiting for me when I get back from vacation!