Flashback Friday: 1957 Battleship

new photo - 2014

Lets blow off the dust and roll the clock back to June 2012.

I keep less than 1% of the MOC's I build and the 1957 Battleship playing board is one the builds I have kept and display proudly in my office.

If I remember correctly this was the 1st or 2nd "everyday object" I tried to build in LEGO. As this was the beginning of my adult building career I had virtually no bricks, plates or tiles to work with so this one took almost a month to complete. (I had to order at least 90% of the parts)

Although it took forever to finish I was, and still am, very proud of the way this build came together.

original photo - 2012

Vintage BATTLESHIP in Lego

Ahhh.... the lovely memories of the sweet phrase" You sunk my battleship!"

About 5 years ago I remember seeing a yahoo story about the top 10 most offensive board game artwork.

This cover was somewhere in that top ten because dad and brother are playing a game while mom and sis are slaving away in the kitchen... with smiles no less! I had to laugh at this because growing up this was the only version we ever had (late 80's) and I never once made the connection. In fact, if not for that top 10 list, I would have probably never paid attention to the cover artwork... possibly for the rest of my life
Then the battleship movie came out and I decided it was time to make a vintage version of the blue playing board.
This is an image of the cover of the game box we grew up with in my house (yes, its the original box and in pretty darn good shape!) and the finished playing board.

The numbers and letters have been digitally added, but other than that the rest is all real Lego parts