Lego Nativity

Transcript

00:00This is our 30th year of building giant LEGO models. The first one we did was when my son

00:04was two years old. At that time we thought it was a big model but it was basically up to my knee

00:11and then since then we've been getting bigger and bigger. So this year we based our model

00:16on my mother's crib which she made many many years ago I think in 1969 and it was based on

00:24these figures. So we've got Joseph here which sort of vaguely looks like the one that we've

00:30got in the back and Catherine's got Mary. So it was it was based on that my mother handmade these

00:37from a pattern and we thought we'd use this as a sort of the format for the actual crib itself.

00:44The figures are more you know based on a sort of stained images of a stained glass window

00:50so sort of stylized figures with a halo. And we've done it life-size as usual so that's always

00:58been a bit of a challenge. So I've been sort of trying to sort of the size of Mary sort of

01:03I was kneeling down trying to get the dimensions and had Mike next to Joseph looking at the size

01:10and sort of with a with a cloak on it. Yeah and I had to have Catherine kneeling and then I'd build

01:16round her at first just to get the basic shape. So proportionately it's worked out quite well that

01:22the models so we're quite pleased with that. We gave up having a standing donkey yes. Yeah because

01:28the legs that would be too feeble to hold that the whole model up so that's why it's it's sitting

01:33down which is a shame in a way. But I was quite pleased with the gate because last year we did

01:38a gate on the the garden wall sort of thing and that was very fragile and that sort of broke very

01:44easily. Whereas this year I learned from my experience now you can actually move the gate

01:49quite easily and it's self-supporting. We'll probably still carry on do another model next

01:55year we've got no idea but I think a building not figures. Yeah but it is something that we do

02:01together and we do enjoy it. I mean there's just periods where it's very intense trying to get it

02:07done in time and this year we're actually much later than normal. Normally we try and finish by

02:11December the 1st and we've literally finished this morning.