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Re: Hotel Coral Essex
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lugnet.build, lugnet.town
Date: 
Thu, 7 Jul 2005 11:57:04 GMT
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Bill Vollbrecht wrote:
   It is completely out of my imagination but based on the grand old hotels from the turn of the century. I have always had a fascination with the Golgen age of travel and finally had enough tan bricks to bring one of these beauties to life in Lego!



I had a blast building it even though I have almost no tan bricks left. A lot of the parts came from the obsolete bricks (thats what we called em. They came from LSI and were from older sets that were no longer being produced) that were the in Legoland California clubhouse building tables. The 1x4x3 panels, the 1x2 pointed roof bricks on the top, and the Adventurers wheels all came from pic-a-brick.

You can see an alternate view at http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/mwv1970

Very nice. I was admiring it in the SPLTC event pictures. Excellent layering of detail pieces. Are more pictures coming of this? It’s hard to see the sides and no pictures of the back.

Jason Spears | BrickShelf Gallery | MichLUG | CLB



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  Re: Hotel Coral Essex
 
(...) Hey Jason, Thanks for the comments! I will take more pics soon. The back is pretty unadorned. All I have on back is a fire escape and a loading dock for the hotel. I threw this one together pretty quickly for the show and wasn't able to get (...) (19 years ago, 7-Jul-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, FTX)

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  Hotel Coral Essex
 
Hey Gang, Finally got some pics taken of a couple models I built for the SPLTC train layout we did for the National Orange Show we were at in San Bernadino over Memorial Day weekend. It is completely out of my imagination but based on the grand old (...) (19 years ago, 7-Jul-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, FTX) !! 

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