The Cold War in LEGO | Planes, Tanks, Ships, Weapons & More

[Music] hi everyone Joshua Hamlin here at brick fair Virginia 2019 and we're about to go through a massive cold war-era collaborative layout here at brick fair so I've got Magnus with me today if you want to give an overview of the layout and then we'll have each builder kind of talk about what they brought thanks this is collaborative display focusing on the Cold War era last year you may remember we had something focused on the Vietnam War and we wanted to kind of continue in that vein with a collaborative thing where everyone builds their own separate display or vehicle and then displays it on a table together as opposed to trying to say build a large diorama where everyone is responsible for a little segment and then that way if someone drops out then you're stuck with some hole in the middle of it you know this is a pretty pretty serious serious political topic and with with some pretty serious ramifications and things like that so we wanted to present it in a sort of tasteful respectful way so we have these information sheets along the edge not not to look too much like a museum but we wanted it to be a sort of exhibit if you will so there's a bit of information with bit of history in there fantastic so let's dive into the builds here so we'll start with the big plane we have down here so Jack if you want to introduce yourself and then we'll go through the builds all right so yeah my name is Jack Carlson a big planes on YouTube and Flickr and this is well it's the big planes the b-36 peacemaker and it well it took about three months to build I would say maybe between fifteen to twenty thousand parts but the story behind this thing is really just sort of what they did back in the 50s and what was before the b-52 but after most of the World War two bombers so this was built with sort of a world war two bomber in mind it was designed so in case the UK or you know England fell during World War two they could send bombers from the US mainland and attack Germany and most of mainland Europe so that was why this thing is so big and it did have six I believe Pratt Whitney 43 six prop engines in the back which is quite a few they were not the most reliable but you know he had six of them so you could lose a couple and it would it would still go and it did have four jet engines these are turbo jets mounted in pods under the wing and the main role with this plane especially during the Cold War which was for this thing probably between 1949 and 59 s's witnesses didn't service the most it would have been used to carry the large nuclear bomb the M or the mark 17 I believe it's what this one's called it may have been a carrying other stuff but I'm not sure it did have a lot of weird stuff going on so like the Goblin right there this is it's just sort of tried stuff back then so the Goblin was here I can sort of demonstrate this doofus I can hear it was designed to actually fold up and fit in the bomb base of the b-36 it was a parasite fighter didn't work very well it's had a couple accidents which caused it to sort of crash and they scrapped the program after about two of them built but it was an idea was one of those things they just tried with the b-36 and like it said earlier it's not the most reliable plane I had some engine issues especially cooling but this was one of those weird things that it kind of showed you right before your eyes the transition from props to jets and they added these jet engines actually later on into later p36 models because it needed to be faster it needed to compete with other stuff and especially with jets like the MiG's and some other Russian stuff entering the plate the battlefield it really it needed to go faster and eventually would have been replaced by the b-52 because it would have been obsolete at that point so yeah this is pretty much the story behind it b-36 it's just the D model so it's a later variant so probably in the late mid to late 50s but yeah I would have been replaced by the b-52 stratofortress later on a massive impressive plane here and all you know the movement with the propellers I think just adds a lot of detail and really catches your eye oh yeah the process that was something that was interesting I had to put a battery pack in the front and one in the back and I actually wired it out to each engine there's a separate power functions M or small motor each engine which has its own prop in it it's pretty reliable it'll run without any issues but it only run for about two hours I am at diamond I've come here from the UK and I'm displaying this Soviet submarine so if you were coming from such a far distance you brought a very small model with you yeah that made sense I would go for the largest model in the display but it does pack down quite neatly into a suitcase unbelievably sits in a whole series of sections but yeah when I spoke to Magnus about things he was saying there's not enough stuff on the the Eastern Bloc Soviet side of things so I was thinking about doing something else but I actually ended up pumping for doing a submarine I'm a bit known for doing ship so I thought something that fit into that sort of same category so how was this submarine used during the Cold War this is a Yankee class submarine it's one of the first classes of Russian ballistic missile submarines so before this both the United States and the Russians were experimenting with how you actually launch missiles from a submarine and they came up with a same sort of solution of effectively having the missile inside a tube that could be blown out with compressed air when submerged rather like a torpedo and then when the missile breaks the sea surface it the rocket motor ignites and it flies effectively into space and then showers down its nuclear warheads on the poor unfortunate victims so it's not very friendly but very effective yes yes so the Yankee class was actually the most numerous class of Russian submarines they they came up with better more sophisticated submarines later on during the Cold War but this was the mainstay of the the Russian nuclear deterrent fleet it looks like this kind of came together in sections for you so talk about kind of the overall design of the model yeah so actually interesting calculated the length of each section based on the size of the suitcase I was going to bring it in so it really did did come in that so it's actually in five hull sections the sail actually lifts off as well so I can go to show you that's just it's just literally sitting on there and it just sort of self locates into position [Music] and has the removable fins there it also comes with the occasional cat cat hair courtesy of my two cats at home and we've made all I've made all of the actual hatches open and closed like the ones on the real submarine so you can fold that down and actually pop that in and then simply open it up then they carried 16 ballistic missiles so basically all black model here was it difficult to find any of these pieces in black that you needed for this build no I stuck to fairly common black parts there's nothing too unusual on here the quantity is obviously in some cases are a little bit challenging I don't think I've got any more too long black cheese slopes left in my collection now so that's that's used most of them but obviously the submarines tend to be black there's not much you can do about that it's not a color that photographs or films well but that's hence bringing some water along so it doesn't just disappear into the tablecloth completely but yeah that's what submarines look like so that's what I have to get with an impressive model I'm glad you were able to bring it out and add it to the overall collaboration your great work thank you very much I also mentioned that there's a p3 Orion so Micah who built this is not English at the moment but I thought like we talked about it because it relates very much to the submarine it's why we've displayed it alongside it so along with the the advent of submarines during the Cold War the development of anti-submarine warfare as a result had to move on a great deal because clearly these these things became one of the main threats to the world during the Cold War so both sides were developing the means of hunting down and destroying the submarine so the u.s. came up with the p3 Orion which is a very effective submarine hunting aircraft turboprop-powered which are very efficient for engine type so I labeled it to stay on station for a very long time whilst it hunted the submarines it could actually launch so no boys drop them from out for the bottom of the aircraft they would land in the water and use sound to detect some Russian submarines transmit that information back to the aircraft and the crew on board had a whole array of technological equipment to actually assess the signals and actually work out whether there was a submarine down there and which type of submarine etc and they could then actually attack the submarine by dropping torpedoes from the aircraft try and sink the submarine so the complete package all in one plane here yeah a highly highly effective anti-submarine warfare there were quite a lot of other different systems there were smaller aircraft that went on new aircraft carriers and so on but the p3 Orion was a sort of mainstay and was operated out of bases all around the world in not only the US but Diego Garcia and Japan and all over the place so these things were flying around all the time during the Cold War keeping track of Russian submarines pairs very nicely with your belt yeah yeah absolutely I mean they're both of the same scale the same one in 43 minifigs scale that we've used for it so you can get a very good comparison side-by-side of how big the submarine was compared to the aircraft my name is Yasser and I built the ac-47 spooky gunship over here so this was part of the Vietnam War specifically it was a c-47 version that the US Air Force used they just put a bunch of guns in the in the side windows and painted a camouflage and using Vietnam for close air support during the nighttime and yeah great camo patterns on that yeah thank you I thought it would be really hard at first because I originally built in my c-47 and in all dark bluish grey and then when I wanted to build it in camouflage I thought it'd be really difficult to source the parts but it was very smooth to build and very easy to get the parts is this your model here as well yes yes sir that's my large-scale mig-15 it's in a scale of one to twenty-two like a lot of my other large-scale models which really allows you to get a lot more detail and a lot more functionality in it so it has some working features a sliding cockpit like that I also put a light brake in there there you go in the cockpit I can close it now you take it has working wing flaps right here right and also working air brakes on that yeah and then it also has I'm working on putting the lights doesn't work in progress but for now that's all I have yep love that with the iconic nose of that plane there oh yeah exactly I think that was one of the most important parts and I you know spent a lot of time on the nose that nose was the longest taking part of the airplane great work so we'll come back to Ralph is this your model here yes well they're a couple here I've this is uh as part of the Cold War there were sort of regional conflicts thank you we have the Vietnam War represented and we have the Korean War represented and this is one of the representatives of the Korean War it's a u.s. Navy f4u Corsair which was the world war ii era aircraft that was still in service at the start of the Korean War they already had jets but the Jets were limited in the amount of bombs that they could carry and missile that they could carry and in their range so propeller aircraft even even old ones were still actively being used and this is based on an old model that I built maybe 12 years ago for the intrepid aircraft carrier the lego intrepid aircraft carrier that's in New York so I updated it with new parts it's all dark blue now because there's been many more new dark blue parts introduced that they weren't 12 years ago I think we this was something I did together with Edie DeMint we will you'll be talking to as well we single-handedly drove up the price of dark blue lego at the time but we didn't have all the parts we needed to make the planes dark blue now I do so the the bottom is dark blue and you can see some of the missiles and the bombs these are fuel tanks and one of the party pieces is the sliding canopy which was hard to do with a minifig pilot and unlike most of my models this is most mostly studless and it has folding wings for use on aircraft carriers and yeah that's the course they're very impressive some good functionality you were able to put in there and a lot of people have built course errors with functionality but making it this small well that was that was a bit tricky but you know new parts like a very useful hinges in dark-blue made it made it a lot easier yeah big for four bladed propeller they were used for close air support mainly for for supporting troops so we're fighting a bomb bombing quite close to the Troops occasionally and they were the workhorses of the US Navy during the Korean War and we have a little base or it and some fun stuff and the other the other model that I built that's here is from the Vietnam War it's it's that little bit over there you might think is that a military model it kind of is and if your normal or North and South Vietnam were separated by an area called the de military demilitarized zone and troops in the south that were being supported from the north they got their supplies by people carrying most of their supplies on their backs along trails through the jungle known and these trails are known as the Ho Chi Minh Trail people in bicycles people with rocks bags carrying equipment to the south and that's what this represents so you have a bunch of figures with the bicycle and equipment [Music] and the reason why I the reason why I built this was first of all we wanted to have a representation not just as as the West but also the East so this is this is an example of that and also you had the might of the US Armed Forces with all of their equipment and all of their technology fighting people on bicycles basically and I found that really interesting that despite all the technology you know they could the United States didn't win because not because of the technology but because because of the circumstances and because basically the other side wouldn't give up yeah I think it's such a sign of the the North Vietnamese commitment to the war when you considered they were carrying like artillery pieces up mountainsides just just by hand it's insane really under terrible conditions I mean I don't and they did they kept going and there was really nothing that the United States probably could have done to stop them eventually they tried they certainly tried they bombed a lot of jungle and they turned a lot of trees into matchsticks but they never were able to stop the flow and so that's an interesting part of the interesting part of the war and certainly I think from an from from from a non-american perspective it might be interesting to see this thank you welcome so let's see what do we have next year I can talk about a couple of other Vietnam era things there's a tunnel system right behind the Ho Chi Minh Trail that is that's something I brought last year you ought to break fair also but I figured it'd be good to show it off again and and it's another example of you know in this case particularly ingenious guerilla warfare what do you how do you carry out a war against an enemy that is just far more technologically sophisticated and these tunnels there were miles and miles of them when I started reading up on them I I learned a lot that I had no idea about before just how expansive these networks were and they allowed the the Vietcong to to travel underground and you know amass armies and and really disappear and they were very hard to to deal with you know the Americans would bomb them and send send soldiers down them but it was very hard to shut them down and it took years and years before that finally happened so in this case their Vietcong who are using a tunnel to to pop up and about to surprise an American Patrol I think that's more or less what's happening here I can also talk about the m113 which is the armored vehicle that you see right there and that was armoured personnel carrier that the Americans were using and it's a good example of kind of modern military technology that you know the Americans just had a whole lot of it certainly did a lot of it was it was a pretty potent vehicle though it certainly wasn't involved installed is who who preferred to sit on top rather than sit inside because they figured if they ran over a mine they'd have a better chance of surviving if they just got thrown off the top of the vehicle but that's you know as a as an APC it was one of one of the early ones and went on to serve in many other Wars and in several several varieties and and different versions of it used across the west up through the 21st century yeah I'm glad you brought that because I feel like that kind of along with the Huey helicopter kind of two of the iconic vehicles from the war you seen so many photos and video clips and that sort of thing absolutely and we sort of take a PCS for granted now as as part of warfare but they didn't really have any fully covered AP C's in World War two I mean they had half-tracks that were used in similar ways that they were open on top but in in the fifties and sixties this was this was a new new a new way of protecting infantry and you know giving them a chance to to rest a little on the way to a battlefield instead of having to march all the way there or drive there by truck so this was this was brand-new technology in the 60s a great work that I think Jack I think we do we have one of your models here as well oh yeah that's the little mini finger scale mig-15 now it was sort of a last-minute item I wanted to have something to go with ralph's Corsair but it was a fun little build so your eye contrato should demonstrate some of the features it has I tried to throw together a little base for it kind of Ralph you know the worst this is a small APU that I threw together to sort of compliment it and there is a guy here just watching making sure now this is a big 15 so it's not make 17 and it does have a thoughts have attracting undercarriage now it's a little finicky but but try to demonstrate for you here it mostly just folds in on a Mixel joint and folds right in like so again it works it's pretty basic and the nose gear see if we can get this to work does doesn't always want to work but it's somewhat like like that so that's what I came up with the nose gear there's no door but it does work and the pot the cockpit or the bubble canopy I decide to sort of brick build this and have a pilot in there so it's just this head I know it might be kinda hard to see but he's it's the idea yeah yeah it's yeah it's close enough right and elevators I was sort of when I was designing this I thought oh it's a full moving elevator right now it actually turns out they were just the back part so we're gonna we're gonna pretend it don't have that feature but it's got a cool I think it looks good having the whole thing up but it's it's inaccurate so we're gonna keep it keep it like this for now but yeah so it's a fairly simple model and it's pretty durable it uses mostly newer parts I try to use more curved slopes in this model than I usually do it some of the newer bits however it's mostly just just a little diorama here to throw together for the collaboration it was something that I enjoyed doing and I hope they do more smaller stuff like this in the future because the big stuff takes a lot of room in time so small stuff is also kind of fun some more great Soviet aircraft there so thank you well this thing is weird and that made it interesting to me so I'm from the Netherlands which is a country that is well partially below sea level so when I think of coastal defences I think of a sea wall or a dike or dunes but the East Germans did things a little differently this is a East German coastal defence system built in the Soviet Union called a Rubik I'm not quite sure whether I pronounced that correctly and what it does is it vehicle obviously an 8 wheeled off-road vehicle with a large missile launcher on the back with two anti-ship missiles and they are radar-guided and it has its own folding radar on on a mast as to elevate it above the horizon so that they could actually find targets over long distances and these were on the Baltic coast of former East Germany to be used against NATO shipping and it's just weird I was I wanted to do something East German because the the the this divide between East and West Germany was very central to the to the Cold War in Europe and I started looking for East German equipment and I came across a picture of this and I thought that's just bizarre I want to have one of them and there was a lot of shaping going on and the camouflage scheme that that made it that made an interesting build and also the the mast can with the radar can slide down which I'm not going to demonstrate because it'll break and the missile launcher in the back I can show that off that can be that can be stored when it's driving it's this massive overhang at the rear but that's what it's supposed to look like and have that made it really interesting when you're working on a vehicle like this something that's maybe a little less well-known than some of the other things were showing here is it difficult to find sort of resource photos that sort of thing or can you still find a lot of stuff out there about it unfortunately one of these is in a museum and that means that there are a lot of photographs taken by people who have visited the museum which which helps and also there are a number of I think Russian companies that make model kits and model kits are always a very useful reference people post pictures of the model that they built and you see it from different angles than you would normally see the real vehicle so you can figure out a lot of the details that you wouldn't be able to see in the museum actually so know it for this one it was it was pretty easy plenty of pictures out there and it's an East German version that is in the museum so that came in handy also with the camouflage perfect well I think that you captured it nicely so going in a little less well-known direction I like it yeah the obscure ones are sometimes the interesting ones and this one it looks like something out of GI Joe and but it was a real military vehicle so yeah that made it that made it interesting there we go so we'll move down to the next build here let's see Gary do you want to talk about your build I will eventually bought my little bit let's talk about the MIAA build first this is this is not mine this is Brett Harris's he's not here right now so what this is again this is the Cold War it's about about the entire period not just vehicles so we wanted to bring the human side of it bottom line is there were actual proxy wars of course like Vietnam where where it went hot real hot so so the thing about aviators is you know we can be shot down right of course so so that happened a lot unfortunately the Vietnam War a lot of behind enemy lines and when it happens if there's no survivors basically there's nowhere a way to go in and rescue the people or recover the body so so years later then all that has been eroded down and and bodies have been buried and and as such so it's it's very hard to recover remains but here in America we care a lot about our our our soldiers Marines Airmen and seamen yeah so when we lose them we do everything they can to recover the remains so that's what this build is commemorating then there's a cost to all this the Cold War there was a lot of good that came out of it there's a lot of bad that came out of it the bottom line is there's a cost to it and not just the expense of maintaining a military so what this MOC is commemorating is the fact that we have been able to go back after peace is taking place in Vietnam they have allowed us to go back and and and exhume a lot of the remains that have been found of course almost all of them are 88 errs and the reason why is we're not finding the bodies per se as a telltale sign we're finding pieces of the aircraft when you find a piece of an aircraft you can determine it's an American then we're gonna go in and we're gonna see well is there any isn't any remains there and and that actually has been a very very very successful program with the Vietnamese to recover a lot of our missing soldiers and they bring them back all the time you'll see in the news where where we have soldiers and Marines Airmen and seem and come back and and they give a full service and buried in our in cemetery and all that so this is a little bill to commemorate that and Brett Harris actually took part in some of that some of that effort there a few years back so he wanted to to build that Mont in commemoration there great work yeah a lesser-known site of a lot of what we have here absolutely I mean the you know cool vehicles they're awesome a great part of history as well but there's also the human cost that needs to be captured so some of us have done that in effect what do you have for us here okay so I don't mean to skip a couple marks but we'll go ahead and since I'm up to bat so and you know I knew that no matter what I tried vehicle wise I was going to be outclassed immediately so so essentially I asked to do something historical and something nobody else is doing so that's why it's such a sore thumb sticking out here and boost all these vehicles and then is espionage so a huge really important part of the Cold War that a lot of people don't realize is the fact that there was a lot of spy work going on and we're not talking stupid James Bond garbage we're kind of we're talking about you know people who suddenly for whatever reason decided to turn sides and so what I chose is the Cambridge five it's not well-known in America but these guys were the single most successful spy ring in world history and that they're the secrets that they gave the Soviets absolutely impacted us I'll give you an example of how dangerous these guys were they essentially were able to gain access because one of them kim Philby was actually the CIA represent elegance ellen:oh over to CIA so he found out through spying and and reading minutes of meetings that America was not willing to go to nuclear war with the Russians over Korea that gave the Soviets free hand to interfere in Korea and it was only their interference that actually stopped us from ending that war so if you think about it these guys these five traders actually help the Russians achieve a great victory in keeping North Korea communist that's the level of of what took place with these guys what I'm trying to show here though is they weren't James Bond three of them were drunkards in a way they were far more lucky than smooth and so here's an example of this what I wanted to capture is this moment here where where guy Burgess one of the main spies is handing off top secrets at the time known as ultra in British speak okay and British intelligence speak to a a Russian KGB agent okay so ultra what is it ultra was essentially the decoded information secrets that the British were able to determine from enigma so if anyone's ever seen imitation game that movie that is what we're talking about those secrets they were obtaining unfortunately there was a guy named Karen cross who was in Bletchley Park who took a lot of those secrets handed him off to guy Burgess and then he would hand them off to the Russian KGB agent in this particular time no to show that these guys were no James Bond this clown guy Burgess at the time was so drunk that essentially when he went to pass his briefcase of ultra top secrets to the Russian KGB agent he dropped it it broasted open and top secret went everywhere on the on the side of the sidewalk and it was right in front of a British policeman so basically the British authorities had their one moment where they could have busted the ring what happened the British policeman politely bent down and started picking up the pace papers and politely handed him right back to guide Burgess and then moved on so of course then the Russian KGB agent got all the secrets what was in that was actually German battle plans for the Battle of Kursk so the Soviets won the Battle of Kursk for many reasons but one of them was because they knew exactly what the Germans were going to do why because they learned it from British the British spies so obviously history would have turned out different if they'd have been able to stop this the only reason why we know this happened is because the KGB agent was so pissed off about this incident that he wrote guy Burgess up and called him a drunken fool and said they shouldn't trust anything these guys hands off and as it turns out actually it was the secret to the Battle of Kursk so um they went on to spy for well over a decade almost two decades and finally one of them was found out by American intelligence and he and guy Burgess fled to the Soviet Union and that was the very first indication that the British had that actually there was something up a lot of damage caused by these guys not just just not just the information that was handed off but also when the Americans found out about this they basically lost all trust for the British intelligence services and not a single one of these guys served a day in jail in fact none of them were prosecuted the when they finally caught up with Kim Philby and he actually admitted it they didn't arrest him they just kind of said well we'll get back to you and of course what did he do we fled the Soviet Union the very next day so the entire start to finish with this whole escapade with these Cambridge five is kind of just as far as you can get from from James Bond smooth business but I just wanted to commemorate a little kind of a moment to say hey you know the Cold War was about more than just you know vehicles and and cool stuff it's also about this side this espionage piece and the Cambridge five not to not very many people know about them in America probably because the Brits really don't want people to know about them but yeah that's a kind of a strange little bit of history I should mention here we're brick for Virginia not far from Washington DC where there's the fantastic International Spy Museum where they tell a lot of these types of stories there so if anyone's in the area definitely check that out because there's a lot of really cool stuff there yeah absolutely thank you thank you for bringing the bill here it's a great story so let's see if we move down I can talk about the pt-76 that's this this light tank here I didn't build it but it's it's basically a a light reconnaissance tank the Soviet this one is I believe is in East German markings was amphibious which is kind of novel for a tank so I don't think it it would have been very heavily armed but they it is it is a tank it's definitely you know it's got tracks it's got a high caliber gun in it and what else to say about it it's it's a great mark I really like how the guy did the base we're sort of coming out of the water and sort of illustrating its amphibious role sense of action you get with that yeah it's very nicely nicely done I like that a lot starting out here this is a little diagram I made destruction of the Berlin Wall it's a small vignette sixteen by sixteen studs it's supposed to be depicting when the the Berlin Wall was being destroyed by the the eastern and western German citizens because you know they've been separated for years and decades even and so this was the first time when unity was possible and you know this is kind of an iconic picture this picture right here is kind of like you know I tried to emulate the picture a lot and you know it's loosely based off of it but yeah if that's what's supposed to depict why could you be incorporated kind of the black steel inside the concrete yeah exactly I wanted to get that scene right here it's exactly the same that you see the the the reinforcement pulls inside and I wanted to use that yeah yeah next up here is the b-58 hustler escape pod so the b-58 hustler was the first supersonic bomber at the United States Air Force use and since it was so high and fast flying they needed for the you know if the crew ever got into an accident and that the plane was totaled then they would have to shoot out in this escape pod that was pressurized and had oxygen and everything yeah next up is the it's the cave class it's called a heavy aircraft cruiser it's it's you know effectively an aircraft carrier because it carried the carry aircraft for the the Soviet Navy right and so they they kept all the vertical takeoff landing aircrafts on this kind of ship and they also had all their helicopters on this kind of ship as well and it was the interesting thing about it is that it was a mix between a cruiser which had like you know missiles and and guns and then it was also a mix of an aircraft carrier cuz I had a deck right there for aircraft take off and then this is the USS Nimitz which is its counterpart the the American counterpart right so the USS Nimitz is you know the first carrier built in its class of super carriers all right so you know obviously the USS Nimitz was in service for decades even you know got retired a few years ago and this this is kind of to show how it was back in the you know during the Cold War like kind of a little later in the Cold War because you have the c2 Greyhound cargo aircraft there which weren't there until like later in the Cold War but yeah it's that this is showing the USS Nimitz during the Cold War yeah okay now in the back this big bomber right here is the tu-95 bear it was the Soviet counterpart closest thing they had to the b-36 destroyer that we covered earlier and so this thing it has this lego model it you know I put some tiles in the wings it's about four feet long it has space for two minifigures in the cockpit and has a good kind of a good interior there you go there's an interior in there has like steering wheels and everything then it has in the back there's space for a tail gunner and the tail gunner is if you can move the tail guns and and then the bottom there's a bomb bay you can't see it too well from here but there's an opening bomb bay and has a rotary launcher for cruise missiles yeah so that you know that that's that thing that's about it in this model yeah you and Jack are clearing out the the world supply of gray tiles for these massive planes oh yes definitely definitely the Lego store got a lot of business out of me for those for those great tiles huh yeah over here this is the mig-25 the mig-25 who was the fastest armed military aircraft to ever enter service it was in everything about it was insane the the exhausts were insanely huge the intakes are in tan insanely huge the nose is insanely large the cockpit was incredibly small which is kind of the other end of the the of the spectrum and then you have like you know the Linnet the landing gear wheels were huge as well and the whole thing was very long it was longer than ant like almost any of its other competitive aircraft from the west as you can see here you know I like looking at the German f-104 versus the mig-25 it's it's insane yeah when you were working on a plane like this what was your like photos or you know types of stuff that you were basing it off of right um well I so this thing was based off of a 1 to 40 scale blueprints I used the the 3 view drawings of it right and I you know all the proportions are right and I also you know I used reference photos for some of like the color issues or the color schemes and everything and also you know I I looked I researched a specific mig-25 for the patina to find the right decals and to find the right missiles configuration so this is my c2 Greyhound the Grumman c2 a greyhound this was my largest effort for break fair because you know the tu-95 was the biggest thing I brought but it was I used it from last year I just updated it a little bit but this thing it was completely brand new since last break there it has a lot of working features so starting out here you have the opening side door side access door right you know spilling spinning propellers obviously it has folding wings which is a very important feature for all Navy planes right and also I managed to put light bricks on the wingtips you see that right there yeah there you go also it has wing flaps here if there you go those wing flaps right there and then it also has a tail flaps like that and then as a cargo door and the lights are on right there I left them on from last time I opened it I don't know how long that's been and it has you know a resting hook right there so that's you know those are basically all the working features I could have incorporated and I think this model turned out really nicely and you know I I even got nominated for best aircraft over here it's also very strong you can lift it up and you know move it around yeah exactly I thought that was a really important feature I knew I'd be showing people a lot of the working features on this aircraft so I thought it would be necessary to have it being able to move easily yeah and then I also built with it this little diagram of a US Navy aircraft carrier deck yeah also it has a you can't see the interior much but it fits one minifigure inside just in case my name is Corvin and I got asked by Magnus to sort of help a little bit with the collaboration here and since I'm a pretty big airplane fan I build a couple of jets so what we have here is the Canadian cf-18 Hornet which is of the export variant that went up north to Canada of the f-18 Hornet that was in service with the US Navy and has now been replaced by the Super Hornets yeah and is the Canadian Air Force is using it the reason I chose it originally was because the f-18 is designed for carrier operations so it has a very rugged landing gear and it's got the folding wings and all that other stuff which also made it suitable for like the rough terrain that they have up north so that's what I chose that one there's a couple of differences between this one and the standard Hornet that you may know from the Navy which is for one it has the black canopy that is pointed under that is painted underneath the aircraft and I can probably lift it up here down here around the landing gear Bay which is sort of meant to momentarily confuse somebody if they ever engage somebody within visual range and the other big difference is this tiny little spotlight here that they use for identifying other aircraft at night when they're flying because one of the main missions of the Canadian Hornets is to serve with NORAD as part of NATO and they use them to frequently intercept the big fella that you see behind there which is the tu-95 there so that is actually one of their main roles and you oftentimes will see like newspaper articles where they have pictures of them intercepting these big bombers up north this is an interesting model with that like very skinny nose there on the front yeah it is it is I've worked on this like on and off for quite a while so the first version of this I designed way back in probably something like 2012 2013 and it's been an on-again off-again project and finally this year I managed to physically build it and get the get the nose right and the way I wanted it to especially also with some other details like the air intakes down here which are curved but also sit very flush here so that was a bit of a tricky area to get right the same thing with the landing gear which also does some weird things luckily we have some new pieces nowadays that make these things a bit easier so yeah great work so then what else do we have here then what we have here is a German Navy f-104 G Starfighter again an export from America built by Lockheed at the time the f-104 was originally conceived as sort of a high-speed high-altitude daylight interceptor so you might have seen it as part of like the old-school sort of century series of fighters where they have like the shiny and chrome sort of exterior and if you've watched the right stuff it's somewhat the mercury 7 pilots were flying in and breaking all sorts of altitude records and other stuff and then lucky got the idea of marketing this thing abroad and one of the main export customers was Germany and they bought almost a thousand of them and some of them were built under license over in Europe for the German Air Force and other what the West German Air Force actually with the Cold War divided going on at the time the only problem was as it turn out for one the German Air Force and Navy originally did not want this plane it was more Lockheed bribed or allegedly bribed the German Minister of Defense at the time and they came back from it it was like good news guys we bought the f-104 and there were ok we hope this goes well and it didn't because what they also did was as a very young Air Force at the time the German pilots were in too well-trained and the crew also not so much so obviously it got better over time but the other thing was also that this high-speed high-altitude interceptor was turned into a low-level fighter bomber which unfortunately led to the loss of almost a third of the airplanes and crashes and well over a hundred German pilots were killed during peacetime in all sorts of accidents so the aircraft in Germany actually gained the title Widowmaker like that captures a lot of this Cold War technology though with like the arms deals like that and then also just experimenting with new things you know with like Germany was doing there and figuring stuff out kind of as they went along yeah yeah it was actually quite a bit of a summering build as you can see here underneath the aircraft what we have is actually a nuke strapped to it so the scenario we're seeing here is actually an f-104 of the so-called quick reaction force which was NATO supply nuclear bombs strapped to a jet ready to go with the pilot and crew waiting to get the word go in case the worst happened and of course it never did thankfully but yeah there were German Eric who's just sitting there literally under US military guard forbidden to leave because they might have been needed but also forbidden to approach the aircraft because that had a you know nuclear bomb strapped to it so yeah it was actually quite a bit of a some ring you know build process for this one because you sort of start thinking about what it must have been like to be in that situation so yeah thankfully that never happened then next to that we have the probably very well known f-16 Fighting Falcon the way that came about originally was in the 60s and 70s there was something called the light fighter program so the Air Force was looking for a very sort of like you know affordable lightweight and highly maneuverable fighter jet that could compete so what they did was they held a competition and the two sort of final entries in that were one was the Y f-16 which eventually became the Fighting Falcon and the other one was actually the YF 17 which was the basis for the f-18 and the f16 won that one and became sort of one of the sort of most successful fighter jet designs ever so they're still produced to this day in very advanced versions and some of the original like novelties they had was like the fly-by-wire system so the thing about the f-16 not only is it light but it is highly maneuverable because it's designed unstable so you have planes that will fly you know if you take the hand of the yoke they will fly straight you know nothing happens some of them will go up others will go down but the some of the modern fighter jets what they have is they are inherently unstable so what they have is flight computers that actually keep controlling the control surfaces to give sort of small inputs to keep the plane flying level and then the pilot gives the inputs that all gets computed with some insane programming and math and gets turned into the actual maneuvering that the plane does but the plane itself is actually unstable in the air which results in like the super agile little fighter so yeah so that was a fun little build to do it went through a couple of iterations the first time I actually built it was with that canopy piece the bubble canopy which is came out in 2016 so when that came out my first one was like oh wow that looks like something I could use so I turned into an f-16 it was a little less refined than this one and yeah over the time you know builds evolve bills get revisited and I refined it a bit and that's what we have here you've got the nice little scene that kind of to set it on there to kind of create the whole scene yeah it's always nice to give them a little bit of context so this is roughly based I used to have a plastic model kit of this jet and it was sitting on like this beige tarmac so that was a lot of fun okay and then back here we have the successor to the f-104 the the Starfighter and then later on the f4 phantom and other early German jets this is the panavia tornado which is a collaboration so back in the late 70s or in the middle of the 70s actually Germany West Germany the UK and Italy are joined together and founded the panavia Aircraft Corporation with the goal to develop a new fighter jet for them for Europe and what they came what I wanted was so something that could do a lot of things so they want a bit of a bomber a bit of a fighter a bit of an interceptor and the way they went about it was to do what the Tomcat also did is to have this variable-geometry wing so what that does is it gives it very good controls at high speed but it also gives it a nice maneuverability at low speed because this would have been as a German jet would have been one of the first to get into action if something ever happened during the Cold War yeah so that was yeah they built that and would entered service in the early 80s and the UK actually just retired theirs earlier this year but Germany is still continuing to fly the tornado yeah up until 2025 when they will be phased out and then eurofighter typhoon will take over all their duties that's impressive it's been in action that long it tells I guess they were successful with it yeah pretty much so yeah it's been around for quite a while your model here I loved the color I know some of these others we've shown so far kind of mostly just gray but you were able to get some almost like camouflage patterns in there yeah yeah so the German tornados they've gone through quite a number of camouflages so this is if I'm not mistake if I remember this correctly this is called norm 76 camouflage I had to look that up because I did a lot of research so the very first prototypes obviously it came in like nice factory colors and marketing schemes but like the actual sort of testing ones later on started having camouflage the thing is the most iconic tornadoes are painted in black a very dark olive green and in a slightly lighter shade of olive green the problem is we don't have any colors for the bricks that do that so I looked around and eventually I found a color this norm 76 color scheme which actually eliminated that because it had a sort of grayish patches greenish patches and black patches and then the bottom of it is actually sort of a whitish light gray so I'm very happy that I managed to replicate that so while you have the camouflage spots on the top the bottom is actually light gray all the way through so I'm very happy that I managed to get that in there and then the last one I brought is the famous u-2 spy plane operated by the CIA originally and then the United States Air Force and later on NASA and the scene we're seeing here is a you to see flying over the Soviet Union at the time about half a second before a Soviet anti-air missile shot it down and this was the u2 that was piloted by Francis Gary Powers so if you see in the bridge of spies you know what happened there so one of the more iconic stories falling behind enemy lines there yeah exactly so yeah he did they they were doing these over flights and originally what the thinking was behind the u2 was that the United States estimated that above a certain height the Soviet Union will be unable to defend against planes so they were saying like okay they're their anti-air capabilities aren't strong enough they can't reach us up here as it turned out they could so the the original cover story obviously was because you can they keep a plane hidden even back in the 50s and 60s you know people will see it taking off eventually and we'll ask like hey what's that thing doing so the official excuse for this was it's a weather research plane which funnily enough NASA used it for later on but that was sort of the cover story and then Francis Gary Powers got shot down over Russia and he survived and got taken captive which the Russians didn't tell the Americans so the Americans were like oh yes the plane was shut down unfortunately the pilot was killed and then the Russian came in and we're like actually we got him so that was very awkward and sort of exposed this whole weather research as the cover story that it was yeah other fun tidbits is that again they're sort of like a bit of a correlation between the bills is the u2 originally also built by Lockheed same guys that the sr-71 afterwards the Lockheed skunkworks as they were called they took this one and they based it originally off of the Starfighter so they took the Starfighter and they changed the fuselage a bit and mainly they lengthened the wings to get some of the lift capability which eventually resulted in this very capable plane that could fly really high the downside to that is they really engineered this thing to do one thing and one thing only which is fly as high as it can and spy as well as it can so they shaved off every you know every comfort and everything that could get away with they had to develop a new fuel specifically for this one that would operate at the high altitude there was no first class on this plane oh definitely not and so they made it to go fly really high and that resulted almost in this of configuration that looks very much like one of those privately owned lighter planes you can see at airports sometimes and it wants to do the same thing it wants to glide you know so the wings are so efficient actually that up in the air they're super nice but once it becomes time to land what the pilot has to do is he has to come down and he actually needs help from the ground so they have a chase car that goes after the plane as it's going down the runway calling out the altitude because it's such a hard to fly plane and the wings want to generate lift so much that the pilot actually has to stall the wings sort of like so almost touch ground with the wheels purposefully disrupt the airflow over the wings so the thing will fall out of the sky and the other thing is because they saved so much weight down on it it only has a landing gear there's sort of this is mounted so I can't really turn it over but it's sort of mounted down here in the back and sort of a bicycle configuration so it has to balance on those two wheels go down the runway eventually one of the wings will tip hit the ground and then it comes to a stop and then they will run out and they will put these so-called pogo wheels under it lift it up and then it can taxi back into the runway simple procedure simple procedure so it is one of the most notoriously hard to fly planes in the inventory so imagine having to do that after you've already been in the air for like I don't know from 8 9 hours or however long they fly yeah so that's pretty much it about the plane one small detail about the thing is I looked up where exactly Gary Powers was shot down and then I pulled up Google Maps and a little area you see underneath the plane that is actually modeled after the map where so over the area of where he was I love that attention to detail and yeah your Lego models are incredible but I also love all the research you've done so is a lot of this knowledge that you can have went in before it had beforehand before you start the models or do you kind of do a lot of research on a specific build as you're doing it yeah a lot of it goes into it well as I'm building it because some of these like normally I would have never thought of building a Starfighter or a YouTube because other people have done them as well and they might have even though some of them I think are actually better than mine you know so there's some of these where I'm like oh yeah I could do that and then you go into it and you know you go into it blind and then you go oh wow this is actually quite fascinating so while you're building and trying to design this model you actually learn a lot about history so that's also a fun aspect of it you know it's no it's a cool model but it's also you get to learn something and you know expand your knowledge of history a little bit so that was a great fun experience hi I'm Matthew hacker I'm a builder from upstate New York and for this cold war display I wanted to represent some and or rather an army that is probably less represented here than the Soviets and Americans that seem to dominate the display so I wanted to highlight the French and specifically two aspects of what the French would be expected to do in their assistance in case the cold war went hot in Western Europe so since really the 13th or 14th century artillery has been the weapon of war and that really hasn't changed despite the fact that aircraft now get all the glory and yeah they're very important but artillery is still the king of battle so my model of the trf1 howitzer it's a very late war cold war design it uses boasted computers to calculate where the shots are going to fire and it would have replaced all the previous French artillery in fact it was still entering service and replacing older systems as the Cold War ended but it represents the very end of a rather the pinnacle of French artillery design the next vehicle that I built was the AMX 10 hot variant the AMX 10 is actually a direct response to the Soviet BMP 1 which was a revolutionary infantry fighting vehicle which allowed infantry to be supported by high-caliber weaponry and a bit of armour as they got into battle so basically the BMP 1 was first entered service in 1966 and then the French and the rest of the West scrambled to introduce new designs so the IMX was introduced in service as an IFV in 68 and the early 70s when it started entering service the version that I built that however entered service in the 80s again as the older vehicle started tiring out they realized that it was an excellent chassis and could be used for a plethora of roles one of which would be as an anti-tank guided missile carrier vehicle when you think of the Cold War and the war going hot in Europe you probably imagine a wave of Soviet armor and that is a reality that would have been faced so the Western Allies needed to have force multiplying capabilities such as anti-tank guided missile carriers like the AMX hot so basically you have a small vehicle lots of missiles take out a few Soviet tanks from behind cover like my little display shows and then it would scoot away and hopefully live to fight another day and I think that's a good example of kind of this cold warrior technology where you have those responses so like once I developed something the other side I said oh and you just basically went back and forth like that absolutely the Cold War was definitely a technological struggle as well as an ideological one and everyone always tried to get the one leg up over the other I can talk about the BMP next which is the the gray gray in 10:1 right behind I think Matt may have mentioned it is the Soviet vehicle that was developed I think in the early or late 60s and it was really quite a revolutionary design it had the sort of firepower of a light tank but it had it was able to carry infantry in a protected way kind of like an APC like I'm showing the m113 earlier and this is sort of like a vehicle little like the m113 but with with more weapons and perhaps a little better armored and when the Soviets rolled this out the the West sort of scramble to catch up with a variety of ifv's of their own this is this is an infantry fighting vehicle and one of the places it was used was in the war in Afghanistan and I guess the the little landscaper I have represents that a little bit and just as the u.s. got entangled in Vietnam War Soviets went into Afghanistan and I think the early 80s maybe in late 70s and they had a somewhat comparable very frustrating time there despite technological superiority they they were not able to to win they weren't able to make that work for themselves but the BMP went on to spawn a variety of follow-up BMP designs this is the BMP one but there was a BMP - and they can keep making more similar vehicles and this was sort of the the original infantry fighting vehicle it gives the inventory both the firepower and mobility and protection to kind of keep up with with tanks in a in an attacking capacity so they've sort of become pretty in the modern era in most infantry would would would like to be able to go to battle in an IFV that's that they've become pretty commonplace that was the original what you guys had to capture that not very nicely there with that model thanks you know I'm really proud of of that model I was building in a style that I don't build so often where the the it is scaled to look good with minifigs outside but it doesn't necessarily have space for the pigs on the inside and I'm I built a couple of vehicles in that stone and that's the one I'm probably the happiest with with the bangles I was able to pull off and what else do you have here so I can show you a Norwegian AFV which is this nm 135 you may notice that looks a lot like the m113 and that is because it is a modified m113 has a turret on the side with an autocannon with for a little extra firepower and I actually was in the Norwegian army very long time ago and I served on one of these so that's personal experience to defend and and I'm sort of in the back of those things and riding around and in the winter it's it's pretty cold but you're glad for a bit of protection and so you you know you if you don't have to march anywhere you're better off in the back and one of those things and then having to walk walk yourself this the common camo pattern there with kind of the white and green that is the the the winter arctic pattern we were using the late 90s and I'm pretty sure that was used in the certainly late 80s also which is when the the Norwegian and I'm 130-135 came into use during the 80s so I'm 95% sure that's that's the right camouflage for that yes and it was fun you know doing taking a model I had built last year and and using the same base model but but changing it up a little bit and you know this is a vehicle and it means a lot to me personally they're not in use anymore so they do you know they are they're a part of history now but yeah that's that's in during the Cold War I mean I mean Norway you know had a has a border with Russia I mean this was this was pretty serious business and you the the nightmare scenario was that you know there would be an invasion and the hope was that the Norwegians could slow down the Soviets for a couple of days and hopefully buy a bit of time for the rest of NATO to come in with some reinforcements and then whoever was still alive of the Norwegian forces would then be behind Soviet lines and carry out a guerrilla warfare so it's pretty daunting to think about what that would actually have been lying but that was what we were told was was the great plan so so thankfully that never happened but no it was it was it was it was good to be able to build build that one as well I also built the t-64 which is this tank here the this is so this is a Soviet tank Soviet tanks tend to be smaller and more compact than the Western counterparts they have they often have Auto loaders which means that they only need three crew instead of four they have a little less armor but they're quite quite mobile and agile and because they're smaller makes them slightly harder targets as well lower to the ground a little bit yeah lower silhouette is the idea and my understanding is that the t-64 is is one of the the better ones they have lots of the different Soviet tanks of the Cold War era all look very similar and it's a little unclear to me the extent to which each of them is its own design compared to just a development of the previous one but the t-64 was was was one of the more expensive ones and had some innovative features at a time so if there had been a conventional war between east and west the t-64 would have been one of the tanks that you know would have been in the front lines you know coming through Europe for example so I did I went with a winter Arctic camouflage for this one as well in part because of the the parts that were available in the different colors and I felt like that was the best best match for that the turret which is strange and rounded was a little hard to pull off with Lego so I did my best with with some curved slopes there I'm pretty happy how it turned out my name's suck I'm from Pennsylvania I built the MIL mi-8 it's a soviet medium twin turbine helicopter was designed in 1958 and it was produced shortly after that and originally was designed as a civilian transportation helicopter however after the widespread success of the bell huey in the vietnam war they decided that they needed an aircraft that was capable of taking troops into battle as that one did so as far as you know the history of it it was used extensively you know throughout its time of being developed it's still actually being produced today it's one of the third most produced helicopters in the world with over 18,000 units built of it so it's still being produced today and you know got unique like seeing green and tan colors there yes it does have that unique camo scheme this was definitely similar to something that was seen during this time depicted in the scene is in the soviet Afghanistan war so this would you know this was a camouflage that was seen during that time they also had some blue on the underside of it to blend in sort of with the sky when it was flying overhead it would be less likely to be detected on the ground even like the lighting you were able to incorporate as well yeah yep the lighting just let some parts of it that you know would typically be lit you know during nighttime operations and things like that now when I think of the Cold War we have lots of different stuff but one of the one of the critical things in the Cold War was the nuclear arms race the the Soviets and the United States were both developing nuclear weapons and we're looking at these were seen as an insurance if you had enough nuclear weapons to destroy your enemy after they attacked you he might be deterred from attacking you and that's still the situation today nowadays but in the Cold War it was while I was new nuclear weapons were new and because there was this really strong divide between East and West this was at the forefront of people's minds and also there was no arms control at the start of the other of the of the Cold War and this this thing is an atlas icbm that's an intercontinental ballistic missile and it could fly twelve twelve thousand kilometers I don't know how many miles that is I don't I don't do miles I'm from the Netherlands Google is there for a reason yes so basically halfway across the world from launch sites in the United States to targets in the Soviet Union to deliver a nuclear weapon that's the white bed at the top that's it that's a 3.75 Megaton nuclear weapon to give you an idea that is 200 times as powerful as the nuclear weapon used against her Oshima so we're talking very large-scale destruction play for that two targets in the Soviet Union they there were 72 of these in the in the in the early 60s stationed at five different locations in the United States in underground silos now I would have loved to build an underground silo but I flew here from the Netherlands you know it doesn't fit in my suitcase right so what I was the way this system work was that it was underground the missile was underground until it was launched and the whole thing was raised up from the ground and you can see the two doors on the sides that opened up that would allow it to come out and then when it was sitting on top of the surface then it would be launched and I think the launch preparations took about half an hour so it was really quite quick and it could fly those 12,000 kilometers in another half hour so it could imagine that the United States was under nuclear attack from the Soviet Union they could strike back within an hour with with this giant weapon and that's a very Cold War thing and also in my day to day life I teach the Netherlands naval at the Netherlands defense Academy and I teach about missiles and rockets so for me it seemed a really natural choice to build this sort of thing very familiar with this type of weapon very familiar with this type of weapon I've done I've done calculations on it I've used it to validate computer models so I when we came up with the idea for a Cold War I said oh I'll do nuclear weapons even though I mean let's be honest they are massively disruptive they are not I'm I don't like nuclear weapons but I do have a sense that if we wouldn't have had them to some extent you know we might have East and West might have actually have gone to war and the threat of this destruction in the background basically meant that we didn't and is that a good situation no but it but it but it has kept the world war or less safe and in the end in decades so it's also it in terms of the history it's also interesting and these are now gone but they're still similar missiles are still on alert in the United States and in Russia you know still with the same mission so that's there are fewer now because there have been arms reduction treaty between the Soviet Union and the United States and now between Russia and the United States because more nuclear weapons doesn't necessarily mean more safety so they had a they came to an agreement realizing that this was getting out of hand and that's what I think that's a good thing obviously but this was not an easy process so they were in the in the 70s there were treaties to reduce the strategic intercontinental ballistic missiles there was an agreement to build no more and to limit their number but that didn't stop the arms race initially and it's when we're in early August now and only a couple of days ago it was announced that the intermediate intermediate nuclear forces treaty between the between Russia now and the United States has been cancelled and this is a treaty that was also an arms reduction treaty but that's this dealt with weapons with shorter ranges and that's where these models come in because in the 70s the Soviets started introducing that thing that's an SS 20 well you don't you can you can't see the mess all that'll explain that in a moment and that could fly about 5,000 kilometers and from the Soviet Union could hit targets in Western Europe in 15 minutes and that wasn't covered by the existing arms reduction treaty so that was seen seen as a direct threat to Western Europe also the thing is mobile well what you see is a is a vehicle a six axle vehicle and the actual missile is housed in a cylinder that is that is now mounted on top vertically but it for when it went striving around they would lower it to a horizontal position and because it's mobile it can well it can drive around you don't know you don't know where it is so if you want to destroy it to prevent it from launching its missile you have a you have a challenge it's not not an easy thing to do to counter that the United States introduced the greif on ground-launched cruise missile and that's this thing also a mobile system and these were introduced in Western Europe in five Western European countries including the Netherlands this launches cruise missiles from the launcher on the back it's also a mobile system in time of crisis they would be driven to location somewhere in a forest or you know I try to build try to build some scenery a remote location yeah it's hard to find a remote location in Netherlands but you know and it this thing miles for cruising also with nuclear weapons that could be launched at targets in the Soviet Union now these things being deployed to the Netherlands was not popular and there's obviously there was a peace movement and in 1993 the largest protest in the in the history of the Netherlands was held in the hague with half a million people out of a population of 14 million going to a large protest march and the hague demonstrating against the introduction of new newly of new nuclear weapons in Europe and the so I have the protest here represented by some people the the sign bomb the bomb in is in Dutch but I figured that Americans would be able to figure out what that means and I felt you know this is this is an important part in Dutch history and I felt I wanted to represent that Dutch bit as well really I think in the in the history of the Cold War in general you think about like Vietnam and some of the protests in the US and a lot of these conflicts so we have hold is pretty impressive military stuff but you know there is a negative side to this and a half a million protesters out of 14 million people that's not a marginal little movement right these these and these people had a point and so ultimately I mean these weapons were supposed to be deployed to the Netherlands but they weren't because the United States and the Soviet Union signed the INF treaty which has now ended just two days ago and and I think nobody in the right minds would like to go back to the situation that existed when these things are actually current so that maybe that that's part of the decision why I built it they look cool I mean a six axle mobile missile launcher that is cool but it is a weapon of mass destruction and it's it's a technology school but its intended purpose really isn't and and the world would be would be better off without these sort of things I think it's really unique the way you can tell those stories through these Lego builds here so what what is some of the public reaction like when they see these models kind of hear about they're used in kind of what their purpose was I don't know people seem to I'm not sure whether people get it IIIi hope they do I hope they don't look at the at the banner and all these stupid protesters can't spell this is a joke Gary made I don't know but you know we have the information on the sheets as well and I found that people that tend to be fairly interested in this and it is still directly linked to current events right the discussion is ongoing and and who knows depending on how things will continue between the United States and Russia you know these sort of things might come to the forefront again it's not something that I thought would make me happy but you know it could happen and I think it's important to learn from history and actually I think to prevent that sort of thing but that's my personal opinion I teach about missiles but that doesn't mean that I'm looking forward to them being used exactly you can kind of separate those two things out with learning about it well obviously wanting them to never be used sure I look at these things as a necessary evil but I'd you know I'd prefer it if we wouldn't have them cool that go models you know right I get to part of the idea was we're going to build stuff that's finally out of our comfort zones while these things are kind of cool but they also make me feel a little uncomfortable that's full take that box but also I don't build minifigs scale ground vehicles normally there they are pushing yourself into a different area yeah and now we didn't interview last year when we had the Vietnam display and I had a US Marine Corps helicopter dark-green and I said looking at it I found the perfect piece for the nose of that helicopter which was a green curved piece and I said I don't know what I never knew what to use them for well hey Green missile launcher and and and there they are the cap that sits at the top of it and they they pop the cap off before they erect the missile that's four of those pieces again very useful pieces those I mean I get to get to use stuff that I didn't think was useful for anything so in terms of LEGO building this was fun and I've building trees and whatnot and building the camouflage much enjoyed that but I do also enjoy the the history and the context and I think that's something that all of us will have tried to do in this in this display well thank you Ralph some excellent models here and big thank you to everyone who helped us with the video here there's so many incredible models on display so I'm glad we could spend the time to actually capture all this stuff do you guys have here so really appreciate it well thank you thanks for the attention and thanks for your interest and uh yeah we'll see you next year you

Channel: Beyond the Brick

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Id: Mi1_gXUIVpI

Length: 80min 22sec (4822 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 12 2019