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Since I was a kid collecting lego, I’ve had a fantasy of setting up all my sets
(at that time, 70’s town) in an integrated display- I mean, how cool would that
be?!? I have never had the luxury of room to do that at home, but the NCLUG
LEGO-palooza events (‘05: http://news.lugnet.com/events/?n=1545, ‘06:
http://news.lugnet.com/events/?n=1799, ‘07:
http://news.lugnet.com/loc/us/nc/?n=813) organized by Joe Meno and Carin Procter
have given me the chance.
In 2006, I displayed my space collection.
gallery: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=289637
And this year (07), I displayed my castle collection.
gallery: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=289639
Details follow...
Space:
The space display included about 45 sets, including 2 monorails. Adam Skelding
built a grid (made of goat fencing) that we suspended above the display to hang
the ships from. In retrospect, it would have been better to hang the ships at
more variable heights, but hindsight is 20-20. I still think this is a good
concept, and I’d like to do it again. The pictures don’t do the display justice,
since they make the fishing line very visible, which is wasn’t in real life
(monofilament next time anyway). Also, the tent frame holding up the grid was
kinda wobbly, giving the ships some cool motion that the pictures can’t convey.
I didn’t make any mocs to speak of for this, other than beginner-level mountains
to elevate some of the bases. For me, since the monorails are at different
levels, the bases had to be as well. I got a lot of help from everyone in the
club, and especially from my partner in crime Evangeline, with hanging the ships
(and preparing the fishing line for that) and arranging the ground vehicles.
Some photos are from Joe Meno (the better ones). The display was quite well
received by the kids, who of course are always fascinated by anything in motion.
For me, it was quite satisfying to see all of these sets together in one
display, even if just for a day.
Castle:
The castle display was much more ambitious, since first I covered the whole of
it (6’x 12’) in baseplates, and second since it was built to be viewed from
360°, unlike the space display. It included about 40 sets, including 4 major
castles, and 2 Knight’s Kingdom’s sets (8778, 8780). This time I built much more
moc-ness into the landscaping, with pathways, some uneven terrain, and a couple
elaborate (for me!) mountains. Organizing this for transport and reconstruction
took some planning, since the display involved 69 32x32 baseplates, most with
something constructed on them. I divided the display into sections, and made a
coding system with letter tiles to align all the plates on site, which worked
out pretty well. I also got quite a bit of help from everyone with set up on
this- even the student workers at the plantarium where the display was held.
Four of them volunteered to build trees for it (“hey, can I play with your
legos?”), so we had a little tree building clinic (see the pictures). They along
with many of the NCLUG members helped foliate the display (which took a long
time!). Special thanks to Joe Evangelista, Ian Townley, and David Winneger.
David also created the army of Black Falcons descending on the Royal Knights,
and Joe E. provided the lady in red you can see outside the Black Falcon’s
Fortress. Thanks also to Cary Clark, who facilitated my acquision of tubs of
trees, burps, and green bricks & plates. Photos from Joe M., Joe E., my friend
Yu-Ping, and me. Happily, even without the motion, the kids seemed to really
enjoy this display. Many of the adults recognized the sets from their
childhoods, so I shared a lot of nostalgia with various parents. It also got
written up in the local paper
(http://www.newsobserver.com/161/story/539835.html). And I was again pretty
delighted to see my whole castle collection at once, this time for 2 whole days!
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