Obsessive hobby for the day

War History Online has an article about a guy with too much time on his hands:

Artist Ed Diment (photo) has assembled an amazing twenty-two-foot-long, five-hundred-pound model of the USS Intrepid out of a quarter million Lego® bricks.  The model carrier is nearly five feet high and five feet wide. It took three people (with a number of other helpers) over nine months to build.
Diment resides in Portsmouth, England, where he originally built the model after visiting the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum while vacationing in New York City, where
you can see it for real at the USS Intrepid museum. 

The real USS Intrepid
Intrepid is one of two dozen Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War Two for the Navy, and is the fourth ship to bear the name.
Commissioned in August of 1943, Intrepid participated in several campaigns in the Pacific, most notably the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Decommissioned shortly after the end of the war, she was modernized and recommissioned in the early 1950s as an attack carrier, and eventually became an antisubmarine carrier.
In her second career, she served mainly in the Atlantic, but also participated in the Vietnam War. Her notable achievements include being the recovery ship for Mercury and Gemini space missions. Because of her prominent role in battle, she was nicknamed “the Fighting I”, while her frequent bad luck and time spent in dry dock for repairs earned her the nicknames Decrepit and the Dry I.
Decommissioned in 1974, in 1982 Intrepid became the foundation of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City. 

The Lego® USS Intrepid
This Lego® model of the ship is to the scale of Minifigs (the miniature Lego® people). It is nearly seven meters long, weighs over two hundred kilos, needed a quarter million bricks to build and took three people (along with a number of others) over nine months to build.

Rico says there are many amazing photos of his work; go there to see them. (Rico used to build models, but nothing like this.)