We bought this Lego cargo plane (7734, released in 2008) years ago, and over time it got broken up and all the pieces distributed into three massive buckets of assorted Lego. As a quarantine project, my son and my wife have been painstakingly going through the buckets of Lego and sorting them by color.
Then, to rebuild the set, it’s a matter of looking at the directions, either from the instruction book or online, and sorting through the buckets to find each piece. One. By. One. That is often a team effort.
My son also rebuilt these two Jedi star fighters, again searching piece by piece. We have probably 100 Lego sets (or more) that have been bought over the past 15 years, and are now in pieces. No idea on how many we will reassemble. It’s a rather arduous process, but I think it’s worth it to resurrect these sets. God knows we spent enough money on them.
Bonus Sopwith Camel Restoration Update
I finished the restoration of the Sopwith Camel a couple of weeks ago, but sadly, it’s not airworthy. I am missing two critical hinge pieces for an aileron, so I had to swap some pieces from the elevator to get the set finished. I need to search through our collection of black pieces to see if I can find the hinge, or order the pieces from Lego. The control surfaces don’t work quite right either, so I am trying to decide if I want to unbuild it far enough to correct that. I think I do. What else am I doing these days??