Advice - Lego Porsche build

[hab1966]

Took advantage of the group buy and snapped up the GT3RS to build during the winter nights.

Built a number of the little children sets with my daughter but the GT3RS is a whole different level.

Any tips on how to approach this?

Do you open the bags into containers? Spread the parts around the table in groups, or just go for it and have bits everywhere?

Also, i believe there is an issue with the gearbox that Lego said was done on purpose to make the build easier. What is the latest on this, have the instructions been changed to reflect this or is it still the easy build?

[sorrento205]

I kept all the parts in the bags during box 1. I think LEGO have done quite a good job of collating parts so that you can search for colours within the bags to identify the parts you need. Only once did i struggle to find anything which was a brown stub axle on step 60 which eluded me for 5-10 minutes!

[Foliage]

sit on the floor, open all the bag onto the floor into a big pile, open a bottle of whiskey and pour a large measure, start building, start drinking, get pissed, build it wrong but don't realise, get it built, drive it around for a couple of hours making the appropriate noises and crashing it into furniture, realise its 2am, go to bed.
Get up with a stonking hang over the next morning, cook a full English, realise that the lego set is built wrong, take it apart and 'fix' it while nursing your hang over.

That's my general approach to large sets.

[SickAsAParrot]

I find it's more satisfying if you empty the parts into your big crate of miscellaneous Lego and give it a good shake, that way every piece takes about 10 minutes to find. Also when a small child is randomly tipping the crate out across the floor, so some pieces may be under furniture.

[Boydie88]

In box 1, there are 2 bags of larger parts that I left in the bags (and the orange parts which I don't know why are in that box, packaging space maybe), all the small bags were emptied onto a dinner tray.

The instructions haven't been updated, Lego's excuse is pretty piss poor, it doesn't make the build work better and the correct sequence can be achieved by switching a few cogs at instruction 269.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVLksDJ7_uk

[minivanman]

I generally use a couple of plastic chinese takeaway tubs to keep the smaller bits together.

[SmokingSideways]

Go big or go home. Empty the entire book on the floor of table and get stuck in.