I've been having entirely too much fun spending hours on this. (Even if a good chunk of those hours have been doing other stuff besides the massive statue, like getting my equivalent exchange economy rolling (I'm in a full suit of gemmed red matter, hence being able to casually fly and casually swim in lava) or Forestry stuff. (I've done apiary stuff before, up to and including the herculean effort of getting a fully functioning alveary, but this time I'm actually doing tree stuff too. I've successfully cultivated cherry trees, but I can't get my walnut trees to grow. I assume they just refuse to in a Taiga biome like I'm in.)

It always helps me when I can share the things I'm making in the game. That is like 75% of the game's appeal to me. I wish I knew of a server to do this kind of stuff on, genuinely collaboratively and all. Legends is definitely my favorite pack; It has working, 1.7 update level versions of Equivalent Exchange, IC2 and Forestry, plus some new ones I really enjoy like the Carpentry blocks that make all those angles possible. It's like microblocks but better, and with diagonal cuts. (And lets me keep it illuminated without torches, heck yeah.) I just wish it had Dimensional Doors; that was such an awesome little mod. Some day I'll have to learn how to build my own packs.

Edit: Progress update.