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Greetings fellow LEGO fans and freaks. It’s been a really LONG time (seemingly)
since I posted about any new creations from me. In fact, I thought about
calling the subject of this post “Holey Moley – I Actually Built Something!” My
LEGO collection has sat virtually untouched for the last 9-10 months while I’ve
been off pursuing other trivial pursuits (mainly pretending to be a
rock videographer).
RichLUG has a train show coming up
(11/29-30) however and about two weeks ago I decided I was going to build
something new for this show. I settled on trying to put together a couple of
small residential/apartment buildings similar to those that you would find in
The Fan section of the city of Richmond. These buildings were intended to go
along the version of Monument Avenue that Tim Freshly has put together for our
Brickmond train/town displays.
I enjoyed a four day weekend due to the Veterans’ Day holiday and ended up using
a couple of those days to knock out the first two buildings. By then I had “the
fever” and looking around at my available bricks, doors and windows I decided to
do another smaller building. Then I decided the block needed a small park area
to go between a two of the buildings (similar to mews garden areas found in the
Church Hill district of Richmond). I still wasn’t satisfied though having
decided what I really needed to finish off the block was some kind of building
on the corner that would have a small shop on the ground floor with a couple of
levels over that.
So after about a week and a half (some intense building days followed by the
puttering days) I ended up with the following:
Brickmond Residential
Block
I’m really pleased with the way this project turned out and can’t wait to show
it off to at the train show during the weekend following Thanksgiving. Not only
do I have that sense of satisfaction of finishing off something that I’m proud
of but it was also great to become reacquainted with my collection. I had a few
moments of head-scratching while I tried to remember where I had filed away this
or that specialty piece type but overall I did pretty good – managed to
eventually find everything I knew I had but couldn’t immediately put my hands
on.
Architecturally there’s nothing to these buildings that I think necessarily
breaks new ground. I’m happy though with the way I was able to incorporate a
few different decorative touches here and there that provide some variety to the
buildings even though they’re basically similar in design. My color schemes
were based on the doors and windows I had available and I’m happy with they way
they came together. As you can see I didn’t have a lot of windows to waste so
from that perspective the buildings are fairly basic.
One of features that I liked the most is part of the first building I completed
(the red, yellow and green one). The rooftop deck structure was actually
inspired by row houses I’ve seen in Baltimore. Some of the buildings in that
city have really elaborate decks up on top of apartment buildings and row
houses. Of course, some of them are a little rickety looking too. I think mine
is perfectly safe for up to twenty mini-figs at a time.
Now that I’ve got the city block done, I’m been moving ahead full steam. I
constructed a small Brickmond Memorial Cemetary that’s the size of a single
green baseplate. I’m also working on the Brickmond Trailer Park that is based
on and inspired by Kevin Salm’s creations. I probably won’t have pictures of
these creations and others (were doing a parade as part of our town display)
until after the show.
I hope folks enjoy the pictures and of course any feedback or comments would be
appreciated.
P.S. For anyone too uninspired to click the link above here’s a picture showing
three of the four buildings:
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