Events : 1051


Events / 1051	1050 \| 1052

Subject:	COLTC display at "Our lady of the Snows"
Newsgroups:	lugnet.town, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.events, lugnet.trains
Followup-To:	lugnet.town
Date:	Sun, 16 Nov 2003 13:21:32 GMT
Highlighted:	!! (details)
Viewed:	559 times

About 5 weeks ago COLTC was approached to do a layout for the Shrine of our Lady of the Snows, in Belleville Illinois. This is a part of the Way of Lights, and part of the Lego display. The display is open to the public from 5-10 PM each day from Nov 15 till January 7 (I believe). There were 7 sections to the Lego room. Below are the sections, and deep links to pics. I'm sure the other exhibitors will post more detailed pics about their contributions, but I was asked to post these at my earliest convenience. All pics, after moderation here: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=63374 COLTC's part of the show was a town/city layout, in the theme of "train around the chrismas tree". We had a downtown section: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/brickbuy/Shrine/shrine42.jpg http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/brickbuy/Shrine/shrine26.jpg and a raised small town: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/brickbuy/Shrine/shrine40.jpg http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/brickbuy/Shrine/shrine39.jpg Near this town, a "snow" scene with ice-skaters, snowball fight, etc. http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/brickbuy/Shrine/shrine09.jpg We had 2 train loops, 1 elevated, and 1 monorail loop. Also, we have designed special road plates for the city: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/brickbuy/Shrine/shrine30.jpg We agreed not to have tall buildings, so I cut my skyscraper in three, and only brought the bottom section, to which I adde a crane, and construction workers. http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/brickbuy/Shrine/shrine27.jpg finished layout is here: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/brickbuy/Shrine/shrine43.jpg Now the other 6 sections, with 1 pics link each: 2: Life size nativity scene (D. Parker): http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/brickbuy/Shrine/shrinen02.jpg 3: Town of Bethlehem (D. Parker): http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/brickbuy/Shrine/shrineb01.jpg 4: Toys (D. Parker): http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/brickbuy/Shrine/shrinet03.jpg 5: Church (me): http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/brickbuy/Shrine/shrinec01.jpg 6: Mosaic (E. Harchbarger): http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/brickbuy/Shrine/shrinem01.jpg 7: Kids play area: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/brickbuy/Shrine/shrinep01.jpg It was much fun putting up our displays. It were two extremely long days. We drove 8 hours to get there, followed by a straight 12 hour set-up (till 4 AM). Next morning we detailed some more and drove back. Comments/suggestions welcome. Also, if there is an AFOL in the St. Louis/Belleville area, feel free to check our display, check on our trains.... The display is manned by people unfamiliar with trains/monorail... Paul

Message has 2 Replies:

		Re: COLTC display at "Our lady of the Snows"
Paul, Wow! The whole display is fantastic. I really liked the snow scene. I'm hoping get over to Belleville soon (from St. Louis) and see this display for myself. I think the coordinators of this display wanted us (GtwLUG) to help w/ some setup, (...) (21 years ago, 16-Nov-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.events, lugnet.trains)

		Re: COLTC display at "Our lady of the Snows"
(...) Paul (21 years ago, 16-Nov-03, to lugnet.town)

6 Messages in This Thread:

Entire Thread on One Page:: Nested: All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear: All | Brief | Compact

Custom Search