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Re: COLTC display at "Our lady of the Snows"
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lugnet.town, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.events, lugnet.trains
Date: 
Sun, 16 Nov 2003 13:50:27 GMT
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jack_lego_maniac@diespamdie.yahoo.comNOSPAM
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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, but I never heard much more than that. I'm sure we can
check on, or even be an "on-call" resource for, your trains in the
event of a problem. (Hope the other GtwLUGgers don't mind me
volunteering them too.)

Everybody with display,

If you need any help tearing down, let me know - I'd like to meet some
more AFOLs.

--Jack
GtwLUG, St. Louis

--- BrickBuy <pjanssen@columbus.rr.com> wrote:
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


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(...) Thanks Jack. Boy, do I feel stupid now. We should have posted for AFOL's in the area to help set it up. We thought we could do it fast, but we spend 12 hours straight setting up, and building, with three people! We had tons of idea's, but no (...) (21 years ago, 16-Nov-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.events, lugnet.trains)

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  COLTC display at "Our lady of the Snows"
 
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 (...) (21 years ago, 16-Nov-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.events, lugnet.trains) !! 

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