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Hi,
The local library asked me to display some of my Lego collection, since they
had two glass display cabinets in the reading area that were empty.
I filled one cabinet completely with train stuff (mostly MOCs). Since I only
had a two weekends to build stuff I have drawn a lot of inspiration from
creations I have seen elsewhere and mixed and matched those with my own
building style.
A picture of the train cabinet:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=31554
As you can see on the top shelf the 725, 7740 and 4564. The other shelves
are filled with MOCs. All buildings are open on one side so the kids could
see what is happening inside the train station and the engine shed.
The other cabinet is a general display cabinet with on the top shelf the
Ultimate LEGO book opened on the page that shows the (female) Lego Dragon
sculpture and the LD Dragon sculpture. The formula one cars were also a big
hit (the Silver Champion hangs on fishwire -otherwise it would take up a
whole shelf on its own!) Further some promo sets and the Sail 'n' Fly Marina
(because it's my favorite town set and there is lots to see for the kids who
sat on the floor paying much attention while I was busy!).
A picture of the second cabinet is here:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=31557
More pictures can be found in my Brickshelf directory here:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=3143
I had a great time building the display and I got very positive reactions
from the people visiting the library :-)
-Frank
--
Visit the LEGO Lexicon: http://members.chello.nl/~f.buiting/lego/
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That looks great. Amizing how much you have there.
I understood that you had much less space there, but there is lots of it
(well, best would be enougth to have a circle to have a train running. How
many m2 do you have there?
How about http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=31560 ? These two
blue cars below look much like these in 3225. Do you have some better
pictures of them? (It is me who is crazy - simple mocs I asume)
Sonnich
Frank Buiting <frank.buiting@infopulse.nl> wrote in message
news:G8Axos.MoM@lugnet.com...
> Hi,
>
> The local library asked me to display some of my Lego collection, since • they
> had two glass display cabinets in the reading area that were empty.
> I filled one cabinet completely with train stuff (mostly MOCs). Since I • only
> had a two weekends to build stuff I have drawn a lot of inspiration from
> creations I have seen elsewhere and mixed and matched those with my own
> building style.
> A picture of the train cabinet:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=31554
> As you can see on the top shelf the 725, 7740 and 4564. The other shelves
> are filled with MOCs. All buildings are open on one side so the kids could
> see what is happening inside the train station and the engine shed.
>
> The other cabinet is a general display cabinet with on the top shelf the
> Ultimate LEGO book opened on the page that shows the (female) Lego Dragon
> sculpture and the LD Dragon sculpture. The formula one cars were also a • big
> hit (the Silver Champion hangs on fishwire -otherwise it would take up a
> whole shelf on its own!) Further some promo sets and the Sail 'n' Fly • Marina
> (because it's my favorite town set and there is lots to see for the kids • who
> sat on the floor paying much attention while I was busy!).
> A picture of the second cabinet is here:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=31557
>
> More pictures can be found in my Brickshelf directory here:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=3143
>
> I had a great time building the display and I got very positive reactions
> from the people visiting the library :-)
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"Sonnich Jensen" <sonnich@hot.ee> wrote in message
news:G8Ayw7.4F5@lugnet.com...
> That looks great. Amizing how much you have there.
> I understood that you had much less space there, but there is lots of it
> (well, best would be enougth to have a circle to have a train running. How
> many m2 do you have there?
True, there is lots of space outside the cabinets. But two reasons not to
have trains running there:
1. it's a reading area so they don't want to have the constant noise of
trains running through the building.
2. I rather not have my trains running about unattended (the display is
there for one month).
> How about http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=31560 ? These • two
> blue cars below look much like these in 3225. Do you have some better
> pictures of them? (It is me who is crazy - simple mocs I asume)
They look very similar indeed, I had to choose because of space limitations:
one coach or two smaller ones. I thought two looked nicer so I build those
small cars. I have no pics of those cars but I do have better pictures of
the train station:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=1359
The bulk train windows and doors changed my coaches completely so the ones
in those pictures are replaced by closed coaches.
-Frank
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In lugnet.general, Frank Buiting writes:
> Hi,
>
> The local library asked me to display some of my Lego collection, since they
> had two glass display cabinets in the reading area that were empty.
> I filled one cabinet completely with train stuff (mostly MOCs). Since I only
> had a two weekends to build stuff I have drawn a lot of inspiration from
> creations I have seen elsewhere and mixed and matched those with my own
> building style.
> A picture of the train cabinet:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=31554
> As you can see on the top shelf the 725, 7740 and 4564. The other shelves
> are filled with MOCs. All buildings are open on one side so the kids could
> see what is happening inside the train station and the engine shed.
Nice designs, i wish i could get there to see it in person!
The crane on the bottom shelf is cool, too.
Josh
"Where's the box car door again?"
>
> The other cabinet is a general display cabinet with on the top shelf the
> Ultimate LEGO book opened on the page that shows the (female) Lego Dragon
> sculpture and the LD Dragon sculpture. The formula one cars were also a big
> hit (the Silver Champion hangs on fishwire -otherwise it would take up a
> whole shelf on its own!) Further some promo sets and the Sail 'n' Fly Marina
> (because it's my favorite town set and there is lots to see for the kids who
> sat on the floor paying much attention while I was busy!).
> A picture of the second cabinet is here:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=31557
>
> More pictures can be found in my Brickshelf directory here:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=3143
>
> I had a great time building the display and I got very positive reactions
> from the people visiting the library :-)
>
> -Frank
>
> --
> Visit the LEGO Lexicon: http://members.chello.nl/~f.buiting/lego/
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"Josh Baakko" <shi_web@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:G8Az15.507@lugnet.com...
>
> Nice designs, i wish i could get there to see it in person!
> The crane on the bottom shelf is cool, too.
Thanks :-) I build the crane in one day, I found out that there were five
shelves instead of four so I needed another train-MOC for a diorama (I
didn't want to display plain cars, so I figured a rail construction scene
would do nicely!)
-Frank
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Frank,
Outstanding display! And I must say that your local library is impressive
as well (I wish my local library could afford stained glass). One
question... have you provided and card or poster descibing the contents and
directing those interested to a retail channel?
-BMW
In lugnet.general, Frank Buiting writes:
> Hi,
>
> The local library asked me to display some of my Lego collection, since they
> had two glass display cabinets in the reading area that were empty.
> I filled one cabinet completely with train stuff (mostly MOCs). Since I only
> had a two weekends to build stuff I have drawn a lot of inspiration from
> creations I have seen elsewhere and mixed and matched those with my own
> building style.
> A picture of the train cabinet:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=31554
> As you can see on the top shelf the 725, 7740 and 4564. The other shelves
> are filled with MOCs. All buildings are open on one side so the kids could
> see what is happening inside the train station and the engine shed.
>
> The other cabinet is a general display cabinet with on the top shelf the
> Ultimate LEGO book opened on the page that shows the (female) Lego Dragon
> sculpture and the LD Dragon sculpture. The formula one cars were also a big
> hit (the Silver Champion hangs on fishwire -otherwise it would take up a
> whole shelf on its own!) Further some promo sets and the Sail 'n' Fly Marina
> (because it's my favorite town set and there is lots to see for the kids who
> sat on the floor paying much attention while I was busy!).
> A picture of the second cabinet is here:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=31557
>
> More pictures can be found in my Brickshelf directory here:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=3143
>
> I had a great time building the display and I got very positive reactions
> from the people visiting the library :-)
>
> -Frank
>
> --
> Visit the LEGO Lexicon: http://members.chello.nl/~f.buiting/lego/
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In lugnet.general, Brian Williams writes:
>
> Outstanding display!
Thanks! :-)
> And I must say that your local library is impressive
> as well (I wish my local library could afford stained glass).
It was build in 1660, the building suffered heavy damage during WW2 so it
was rebuild and only the facade remains.
> One
> question... have you provided and card or poster descibing the contents and
> directing those interested to a retail channel?
I left the cards describing the models on my desk at the office (d'oh!) but
I'll add them today.
There is a toy-store (Intertoys) within 100m from our library that carries
the full range of Lego products, including trains. I did add a note that
Lego sells bulkpacks over the Internet.
-Frank
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In lugnet.general, Frank Buiting writes:
> Hi,
>
> The local library asked me to display some of my Lego collection, since they
> had two glass display cabinets in the reading area that were empty.
> I filled one cabinet completely with train stuff (mostly MOCs). Since I only
> had a two weekends to build stuff I have drawn a lot of inspiration from
> creations I have seen elsewhere and mixed and matched those with my own
> building style.
> <snip>
> -Frank
Hi Frank (Hoi),
Where is this library and when will the exhibition end?
groeten,
Wessel
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Hoi Wessel :-)
> Where is this library and when will the exhibition end?
It's the library in Sint-Oedenrode (between Eindhoven and Den Bosch). The
exhibition ends 5 march.
-Frank
ps. followups trimmed for this one to lugnet.loc.nl
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In lugnet.general, Frank Buiting writes:
> Hi,
>
> The local library asked me to display some of my Lego collection, since they
> had two glass display cabinets in the reading area that were empty.
> I filled one cabinet completely with train stuff (mostly MOCs). Since I only
> had a two weekends to build stuff I have drawn a lot of inspiration from
> creations I have seen elsewhere and mixed and matched those with my own
> building style.
> A picture of the train cabinet:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=31554
Dear Frank,
those cabinets are great! You have made a good choice in the models (sets and
MOCs) you display.
Of course I do enjoy mainly your great sceeneries with buildings and rolling
stock. Your grey + half timbered houses are georgeous!
Regards,
Ben
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"Reinhard "Ben" Beneke" <r.beneke@tu-bs.de> wrote in message
news:G8BtLy.5EL@lugnet.com...
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> Of course I do enjoy mainly your great sceeneries with buildings and • rolling
> stock. Your grey + half timbered houses are georgeous!
I'm happy you like them :-) Perhaps we could combine some of our models to
create a diorama at the Lego Treffen in Meulheim? I really like the
half-timbered style unfortunatly I can build more buildings in that style -
I have completely run out of black 1x1 bricks ...
-Frank
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In lugnet.general, Frank Buiting writes:
>
> "Reinhard "Ben" Beneke" <r.beneke@tu-bs.de> wrote in message
> news:G8BtLy.5EL@lugnet.com...
> >
> > Of course I do enjoy mainly your great sceeneries with buildings and • rolling
> > stock. Your grey + half timbered houses are georgeous!
>
> I'm happy you like them :-) Perhaps we could combine some of our models to
> create a diorama at the Lego Treffen in Meulheim? I really like the
> half-timbered style unfortunatly I can build more buildings in that style -
> I have completely run out of black 1x1 bricks ...
>
> -Frank
I have planned to bring my roundhouse with me to Muelheim when we meet there in
April 2001. I think we should stay in touch to do a combined display then.
If 50 black 1x1x1 bricks could help you out: I will bring them with me to the
meeting (please remind me in time). I bought nearly 40 boxes of 4229 before
x-mas, so there should be some bricks left for trade (lots of black, blue and
greens are away now...).
Regards,
Ben
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In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
> I bought nearly 40 boxes of 4229 before x-mas
*!*
This was the last time I had breakfast while browsing on LUGNET. Posts like
these pose a serious health threat! I barely managed to get the sandwich out
of my throat again (using Heimrich's method)!
Wessel
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wessel burgers <wessel_b@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:G8DMIC.8M3@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
>
> > I bought nearly 40 boxes of 4229 before x-mas
>
> *!*
>
> This was the last time I had breakfast while browsing on LUGNET. Posts • like
> these pose a serious health threat! I barely managed to get the sandwich • out
> of my throat again (using Heimrich's method)!
Me too, I lately haven't bough that much due to other reasons, but still I
also from time to time buy more that just a few. Expensive yes, but one has
to be selective to get a set with the wanted parts AND other parts which
actually can be used!
The problem here is that some parts just are hard to get (more bulks wanted)
and it is hard to find someone to share e.g. a trian set with.
Sonnich
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