Category Archives: NCLTC

Setup fairly uneventful

February 1, 2009 – 7:37 am

Other than running a little late, my setup for LEGOPalooza was fairly uneventful.  Big thanks to Will Stroh and Dan Larson for their assistance setting up the train layout.  They laid out almost all of the track and baseplates for me which is a huge help.
I had spent a couple days really limiting what I [...]

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Final Layout Plan for LEGOPalooza

January 27, 2009 – 6:10 pm

My area of the layout got tweaked a bit today as we finalize the layout plan.  In general the layout is a bit cleaner and it is by far the largest layout NCLTC has ever done.  I have a few things to figure out but for the most part, I think I am in pretty [...]

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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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Show Preparation

January 17, 2009 – 7:51 am

The last couple of shows I have participated in have been been pressed for time getting ready and I end up bringing boxes and boxes of stuff to the show, much of which never gets displayed.  I find that a lot of the vehicles end up missing parts here and there from being transported and [...]

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NCLTC at LEGOPalooza

January 16, 2009 – 2:49 pm

I have been working on the layout plan for the NCLTC layout at LEGOPalooza lately.  This is an interesting layout because we are going to use standard banquet tables instead of our own tables.  It is nice because hauling the tables around and setting them up is a real chore.  However, they aren’t an ideal [...]

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