QF-45 Sarigar Parts List is completed, and formatted into Bricklink Wishlist XML.
Good news - it costs approx $100 to order all (well most, see below) parts new, so it's not too bad considering there's 767 parts and the model weighs 500 grams. I don't know if this thing is much bigger than it seems at first, or the bricks are packed together so much that it's so heavy - probably both. It's really crazy to think this thing is apparently an original design too, not based on an existing sci-fi ship. It's so great looking, on top of being incredibly put together.
Bad news - some parts appear to be really rare and out of production, so good luck finding them new, or even finding them at all in the amount needed. Also, I think I had to source parts from four sellers just to get it all, even though some are used parts, and I was really scraping by for some parts, barely finding enough of them.
Here's the archive with three files:
QF-45 Sarigar Parts List.zip - 0.01MB
"Bricklink Wishlist XML.txt" is the list of all parts, converted into an XML format you can use on Bricklink to automate the searching and ordering process.
"Total Parts.txt" is the list of all parts in a readable format, with parts names and amounts.
"Parts by Image.txt" is the list of parts sorted by instruction images provided by this model's author here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dasnewten/sets/72157626558179225/
This way you can look at each image, and see more easily what parts are supposed to be used there.
Phew! It was a tough job, but someone had to do it. In the end, building this:
will make it all worth it.
Little hints like that help, too. It was such a fucking tease to open the Tower Bridge instruction manual to see a picture of the Beetle and the Taj Mahal staring at me. But that's just the way the prints run I guess!
