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Re: Honey, I shrunk the Chateau!
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lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.town
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lugnet.town
Date: 
Tue, 19 Nov 2002 15:34:29 GMT
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In lugnet.build.arch, John Neal writes:
When I built my chateau a few years back, it was simply an exercise of love--
bulk bricks had just become available, and the doors to creating larger and
more complicated and detailed MOCs were opened.  It, however, became this large
labor of love that I didn't know what to do with, much less where to put it.

Well, I couldn't bring myself to completely dismantle it, so I downsized it!
:-)  I turned it into a "backdrop" building for the TCLTC layout, and now it
can live out a useful life.

Here is a link to the original:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=2519

And here it is today:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=6920

Rick Moranis, eat your heart out;-)  Also check out a slightly modified
interlocking tower that utilizes the new brown stairs from the Privet Drive set
(also in the same folder).  More pics soon of some more new buildings as I get
them up in the next few days.

-John

Hi John,

My apologies for the deliquency in noticing this. (I've actually had to do
'work' at work the past few days).
Very nice. Looks to me like a Mayoral Mansion for a city. Any plans to put a
cityesque landsacape around it?

What parts are the columns between the windows made with?

Thanks,
Jonathan



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  Re: Honey, I shrunk the Chateau!
 
(...) You've had to *work*??? I hate it when "work" gets in the way of build and talking about LEGO! Priorities, man;-) As far as building around it, no. This building and all of my other so-called "backdrop" buildings are exactly that-- stuff that (...) (22 years ago, 19-Nov-02, to lugnet.town)

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  Honey, I shrunk the Chateau!
 
When I built my chateau a few years back, it was simply an exercise of love-- bulk bricks had just become available, and the doors to creating larger and more complicated and detailed MOCs were opened. It, however, became this large labor of love (...) (22 years ago, 17-Nov-02, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.town)  

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