Category Archives: Standards

The last module!

January 25, 2009 – 3:10 pm

Renee and I just finished the last module I need for my neighborhood portion of the NCLTC layout at LEGOPalooza next weekend (yikes!). This is a middle module and features a bunch of the dark red elements I got from the UTB project.  Unfortunately I ran out of the dark red headlight bricks – I [...]

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The Dark Blue house

January 25, 2009 – 2:57 pm

This weekend, with Renee’s help, I completed another module for the neighborhood.  It is a dark blue house built using mostly bricks I received from working on the UTB project.  I really wanted to add some medium blue striping to it but I don’t have any and Maersk blue doesn’t look right, it has too [...]

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Residential Neighborhood at LEGOPalooza

January 21, 2009 – 1:15 pm

As part of my section of the NCLTC layout at LEGOPalooza, I will have a small residential neighborhood.  I had built a couple houses to a standard of sorts a few years ago, the most notable a lime green house with pink windows and a white roof.  It is very unusual looking but I like [...]

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Modular Hills Part 3

November 20, 2006 – 7:55 am

I guess I am still on European time as I was awake at 3:30 AM this morning. I decided to get up and address the corner adapter problem. I ended up building a new module which connects the corner to the straight. It is 16 studs wide instead of 32. In the end, this was [...]

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Modular Hills Part 2

November 19, 2006 – 12:55 pm

I am back from my business trip to Paris and picked up a large order of green bricks from ThorzLegoz which I need to complete the modular hills I had started last week. I had built 3 straight modules before I left for Paris and they went very quickly. However, the corner module took far [...]

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