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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
September 27, 2008 – 7:37 pm
I have used a system of modular buildings for my sections of NCLTC layouts for years. At one point I had built a city block scene as one big structure but it was fragile and really hard to transport. It looked nice but it was more hassle than I wanted. The fact that I dropped [...]
September 27, 2008 – 7:17 pm
I have been putting it off but today I started taking things apart. I can hardly walk in my office at home there is so much stuff on the floor these days. I have way more buildings than I could ever bring to a NCLTC layout. I really got in a bad habit of building new things but never [...]