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Friday, July 29, 2011
LEGO Starbucks
A nifty little kiosk. Must be an impression of those kiosks at the malls. Done by user frogstudio on Eurobricks. Very creative to include a delivery truck, such reminds me of the catering they do.
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Saturday, July 23, 2011
In the works....
A 62' bulkhead flat w/ staves. A similar car would be:
Except that as I saw in one of Ted Marshall's videos, of O721 back in the golden Stock era, it will have full staves, those stick things, reaching up to the top of the bulkheads
Except that as I saw in one of Ted Marshall's videos, of O721 back in the golden Stock era, it will have full staves, those stick things, reaching up to the top of the bulkheads
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Fast Attack Frigate and Communications Escort
It's a very nicely done and detailed mini model. I'd like one on my desk, right next to 7732 Air Mail. :D
Monday, July 18, 2011
Tropicana Juice Train Reefer Decaled
Just as I prepare the video, I'll blog the pic, but will flickr the pic later on as the video is finished.
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Just off the shops...
LEGO Tropicana Trinity TrinCool 72' Reefer
Decals coming soon. The MOC stands @ 44 studs long x 8 studs wide (exterior details) x 11 bricks 2 plates high (from rail).
Decals coming soon. The MOC stands @ 44 studs long x 8 studs wide (exterior details) x 11 bricks 2 plates high (from rail).
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Monday, July 11, 2011
Plant City Depot MOC Phase One - Completed!
It has finally happened - The depot is built!
The Plant City Depot was built at Drane and Collins in the namesake city around 1909... It served ACL and Plant System railroads until the SCL took over. Station duty was removed though the depot was preserved as a member of the National Register of Historic Places, namely in 1974.
The depot is now the City's Welcome Center and provides tourist info plus guides, magazines, timetables, and ATCS displays and model railroads for railbuffs who visit.
My replication project, for future inclusion in GFLUG and FLUG displays especially when Plant City gets to happen, was started on May 22, 2011 with the bare bones and has been halted days later, especially when I felt stumped with what are now the pneumatic elements you see on the facade. I reinstated work around the middle of June, with a faithful commitment date of June 30 for completion. Soon I learned and quickly realized that I did not have enough roof elements (slope bricks) to finish, in neither the prototype color (gray), the close to proto (dark gray), nor my best fit due to corner and end pieces, black. To maintain focal quality on the model black was primarily chosen because of the strength of the color, though at any time I can change it though such a move is costly. On July 7 filling the Pick-A-Brick cups at Orlando, I found two gracious pieces that told me "here you go, Tolga, now finish it"... the LIC, unlike the Miami store, boasted black 2x2 and 2x4 45ยบ slopes, essential for this. Picking up 47 2x4s, and 295 2x2s (eyeballed, and unfortunately unneeded 2x2 bricks went in the cup), among many other interesting parts, it was finally seen phase one would be complete. Well, what is phase one? Let me show you...
The Project is divided into three phases:
The Plant City Depot was built at Drane and Collins in the namesake city around 1909... It served ACL and Plant System railroads until the SCL took over. Station duty was removed though the depot was preserved as a member of the National Register of Historic Places, namely in 1974.
The depot is now the City's Welcome Center and provides tourist info plus guides, magazines, timetables, and ATCS displays and model railroads for railbuffs who visit.
My replication project, for future inclusion in GFLUG and FLUG displays especially when Plant City gets to happen, was started on May 22, 2011 with the bare bones and has been halted days later, especially when I felt stumped with what are now the pneumatic elements you see on the facade. I reinstated work around the middle of June, with a faithful commitment date of June 30 for completion. Soon I learned and quickly realized that I did not have enough roof elements (slope bricks) to finish, in neither the prototype color (gray), the close to proto (dark gray), nor my best fit due to corner and end pieces, black. To maintain focal quality on the model black was primarily chosen because of the strength of the color, though at any time I can change it though such a move is costly. On July 7 filling the Pick-A-Brick cups at Orlando, I found two gracious pieces that told me "here you go, Tolga, now finish it"... the LIC, unlike the Miami store, boasted black 2x2 and 2x4 45ยบ slopes, essential for this. Picking up 47 2x4s, and 295 2x2s (eyeballed, and unfortunately unneeded 2x2 bricks went in the cup), among many other interesting parts, it was finally seen phase one would be complete. Well, what is phase one? Let me show you...
The Project is divided into three phases:
- Phase one is simply maintaining that there is a building. External detail is not the priority here except for the dark red fence.
- Phase two is the inception of interior detail into the MOC. This is much simpler to do but I wanted to keep focusing on the first phase's roofing. I expect to finish this in about a week.
- Phase three is the exterior platform style roof that will box in the US&S signal that I did do (though it's hard to design a tricolor). It also includes landscaping and any other Depot structure that may be needed. This may be a laggy phase, with no commitment, but I know I'll be done by November at the latest.
Friday, July 1, 2011
Western Market Street
Excellent MOC and great detail.....
Looks like what Western in this era SHOULD... ;)
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