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Re: two historic facades
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Wed, 4 Dec 2002 21:09:18 GMT
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> > One is of the Albion Fire Station here in Brisbane (Australia) where I live,
> > which is no longer used as a fire station but is converted to offices.
> Any chance of a sand red/tan combo sometime in the future ?
Somewhat unlikely. I have no sand red bricks and pretty much every tan brick I
own is currently in the bank MOC. Indeed, I had a substantial outlay in HP
sets, adventurers sets and lots and lots of bricklink orders to acquire
sufficient tan bricks for the bank. However, I see it as an investment as
sandstone is very common here in sunny Queensland, so I expect to get
substantial re-use from the tan bricks.
The fire station was a bit of a quickie. Aaron (our resident Fire BUG) was
hosting a meeting at his place and I felt in honour of the occasion that I
should do something fire-related. Since vehicles aren't a big interest for me
(and Aaron has a million fire engines anyway), I decided to build a fire
station.
I could not build a modern fire station as I don't have any modern garage
doors. But, as it happens, my other hobby is family history, and I know that
one of my great-great-grandfathers was in charge of the Kangaroo Point fire
station here in Brisbane in the 1800s (he was still a fireman when in his 70s
amazingly). So I thought I would try to build a replica of his fire station
which was more likely to have wooden doors (and hence something I could render
in Lego).
I then did the research and hit the problem that I could not find any surviving
photos of the Kangaroo Point fire station (which was demolished many years
ago). I did find many other photos of early fire stations and frankly they were
all very uninteresting buildings, little more than timber barns.
Time to the meeting was ticking away so I decided instead to look at early
1900s fire stations instead, and decided that the old Albion fire station
probably had the most architectural interest. Also the old Albion fire station
is very well-known to me, as it currently houses in its upper level the Qld
Family History Society (of which I am a member for many years), so I go there
quite frequently. And I also had a photo of it when it was first built which
has an amusing visual joke; the signwriters had only written the words ON FIRE
in the centre of the sign when that first photo was taken. Later they added the
rest of the letters to get the words ALBION FIRE STATION (as my MOC does).
Anyhow the net result of all this is that I had to build the Albion fire
station in a very narrow timeframe and the only way to do that was to use
bricks I had spare at the time as it wasn't feasible time-wise to get in more
bricks . In terms of realism, better colours would have been brown, dark red
and tan. However, my tan was all in use, I have no dark red, and had only a
limited amount of brown, sufficient only for accent colours and not the main
colour. So red with brown and yellow accents was pretty much the only feasible
solution. And besides, I figured that red was an appropriate colour for a fire
station.
Kerry
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| (...) Most thoughtful :^) (...) Any chance of a sand red/tan combo sometime in the future ? (...) This is gorgeous, thought I was looking at the real thing for a mo' Tan is a great colour to build with and Lego builders have got great milage out of (...) (22 years ago, 2-Dec-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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