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 good shape. My area looks like this:
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 wanted to make it another level taller. I still may do so if I can find some on short notice.
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 much green in it. So I left it without any striping. I like the grey roof, it goes well with the dark blue.
This is another corner module, you can see another new middle module in the background as well as part of the corner park as well.
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 it.? It was a joint project with my oldest daughter.
This year my daughter Renee built a house on top of one of the unused baseplate modules I had laying around for her entry in the NC State Fair.
This house is representative of what the rest of the modules look like – they all sit on 32×32 baseplates with a tiled sidewalk made from 2×2 white tiles.? Each module is raised to provide some elevation and they fit together to form a city block (much like my modular buildings do).? I have six modules – four corners and two middles – to make a 2×3 layout.
Renee has been my helper on this part of the project – she built this module with very little assistance from me and has helped with two more.? Last night we built another corner module, a dark blue house with a light grey roof.? After looking at it again this morning I think I will add a third level to it.? It needs something else too – maybe some medium blue.? I’ll post a picture once it is done.
This morning I was looking at the WordPress stats for this blog (I was on a conference call and just poking around at the time) and noticed an interesting referral. There was a link to my site from http://blogs.com/topten/10-totally-fun-lego-blogs/. Check out the list, there are some really good LEGO related blogs to peruse and I was happy to see mine on the list.
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