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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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