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Subject: 
I'm looking for ideas...
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.general
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Date: 
Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:59:32 GMT
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Hi,

The local library invited me to do a LEGO display (their display cabinets
will be empty while waiting for the next exhibition material and they asked
me do fill them in the meantime). More details about the display: I have
access to two glass cabinets with each 4 glass shelves. I planned to fill
one cabinet with LEGO sets (a few promotional sets, the LEGO dragon
sculpture, a shelf with the 8860 autochassis and the Super Street Sensation
sorta like mini LEGO history, a classic spacecraft etc.) The shelves can fit
rougly two-and-a-half big grey baseplates next to eachother.

The second cabinet I plan to fill with train MOCs (except the top shelf
which I reserved for a little LEGO train history with sets 725 and 7740)
I have the following models planned for each remaining shelf:
A trainstation with steamlocomotive and passengercoaches
A goods-station with a dieselengine and mailcars
An engine shed where a coach is being repaired and a signal tower.

Okay, now to the subject of this post: I have the main models (all on 1
baseplate each) ready but I'm looking for ideas to fill up 'empty space'.
What kind of details are nice near a train station or what kind of track
side objects can one find near an engine shed? I'm looking for small items
since I haven't got much time to build really large things. Ideas for
minifigs interacting with something or eachother would also be perfect for a
diorama like this. Any ideas?

-Frank

PS. pics of the trainstation:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=1359
and the warehouse (WIP pictures)
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=2118



Message has 8 Replies:
  Re: I'm looking for ideas...
 
(...) I would suggest to take a look at a model builders magazine or the Märklin catalogue. Some nice ideas to be copied are for e.g. on Heiner Bergs homepage: (URL) this ones: ;-) (URL) take a look at his genious trees: (URL) (24 years ago, 29-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
  Re: I'm looking for ideas...
 
Hi Frank, Congratulations! Showing your MOC's in a libary sounds very good! And your ideas to go into LEGO train and technic history is very nice. I would like to visit this libary, even if I couln't read any dutch ;-)) I build an easy telegraph (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
  Re: I'm looking for ideas...
 
(...) A coal park, for refueling your steam engine can be build very quickly, just some walls, a dump a pile of loose black bricks in it, and put one of tose small cranes from set #4565 Freight & Crane Railway next to it to make it look realistic (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
  Re: I'm looking for ideas...
 
in article G7xG78.6B2@lugnet.com, Frank Buiting at frank.buiting@infopulse.nl wrote on 1/29/2001 7:59 AM: (...) Pop machine. newwspaper rack. Telephone booths, with sound baffles that can be pulled down over the figs head (to muffle the sound of the (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
  Re: I'm looking for ideas...
 
Why not attempt something a bit more unique? Consider events or history related to your region or community. Maybe a unique industry or festival. If there's an upcoming flower or Spring festival, why not have everyone turned out for a parade? The (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
  Re: I'm looking for ideas...
 
Thanks for the input :-) Heiner Berg has some nice signal poles I'll build. Holger's telegraph poles gave me the idea of building a scene where the poles are being build. I also like the billboard idea! I have the rest of the week to build so ideas (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
  Re: I'm looking for ideas...
 
The Station should have lots of garbage cans, most of the stations i've been to allways seem to me messy, seems like they don't have janitors or something. Maybe even a few hobos or bums... Josh (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
  Re: I'm looking for ideas...
 
Thing that jumps out about rail yards for me is that rail yards and stations are a evolutionary process. -Moved sheds(or just the posts) to disused rails that are unconnected and overgrown. -Heaps of rails and ties, parts of cars, engines and (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)

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