Mike Walsh's LEGO® Blog » Modular http://www.carolinatrainbuilders.com Thoughts and musings on all things LEGO® Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:17:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Modular Buildings – the first one http://www.carolinatrainbuilders.com/index.php/2008/09/modular-buildings-the-first-one/ http://www.carolinatrainbuilders.com/index.php/2008/09/modular-buildings-the-first-one/#comments Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:37:31 +0000 Mike Walsh http://blog.carolinatrainbuilders.com/?p=116 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 it bring it home after one show sealed its fate and led me to a new solution.

I really liked the look of different building facades so I decided to build a bunch of them which could be arranged differently with one caveat – they had to be built on a 16×16 or 16×32 baseplate.  I had some corner units and some interior units.  I reached a point where I could assemble a fairly large town area with my buildings.

Modular Building

Modular Building

This building was actually the first one I built and I really like how it came out but it never made it to a layout.  Why?  Because when I built it I made a big mistake.  The back of the building was one stud in from the edge of the baseplate so it wouldn’t sit back to back with another building.  There was a gap which was too noticable.  So it has been sitting on a shelf since I built it.  I thought about fixing it a number of times but never did it.

This building has a couple 2x2x3 tan corner slopes which I got from the LEGOLand California Model Shop.

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