Category Archives: Planning

Layout Planning with BlueBrick

January 30, 2010 – 10:24 pm

I have been using TrackDraw for layout planning for years. My friend and former NCLTC member Cary Clark wrote TrackDraw and I authored many of the parts in the TrackDraw library so I had a vested interest in using it.  Compared to TrackDesigner, TrackDraw was a huge improvement particularly if you were planning a [...]

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My turn in the WITC window

November 29, 2009 – 9:01 pm

It is my turn again to set up a display in the Community Window at the Crabtree Valley Mall LEGO Store.  I had the honor of doing the first community window when the store first opened and now I am lucky to have the holiday season too.  The community window is a funny size – [...]

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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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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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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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