My Winter Village Project

milamber

I've been pretty impressed so far. I've had the sets a while, but only built them this year. I've built the bakery, the post office, the toy shop, the train, the station, santa's workshop and the village market plus any number of smaller Christmas sets and only had two missing pieces in the lot. Both the same piece, in the new train, and easily replaced. I also had one of the long white level crossing barrier pieces from the station slightly bent, but it's not a problem. Surprised at the number of extra pieces too.

I have the cottage to do, but saving that for when my son comes for Christmas.

Recce

monkey_roo said:

The custom printed torsos all came from firestartoys. The quality is very good, I think they were £2.50 each.

Thanks for the heads up, just ordered 10 jumpers from the site, plus a bunch of those mini sets without minifigures. :) 

bfeighery

So, another pre Christmas get together meant deconstruction again this weekend. Here is version 3...

Switchfoot55

Fabulous @bfeighery!

FowlerBricks

^That is quite an amazing display! 

lady_bricker

Fantastic!

LuLego

This is my Christmas table. The train looks lonely on its own underneath but there is a station-sized box under my tree.

I have absolutely loved reading this thread and seeing all of the photos of people’s tables: they provide inspiration and ideas to borrow for next year.

tamamahm

I still adore how it is multi-tiered. The entire display is awesome. I have multiple elves, but nowhere near that many.

bfeighery

so cool (pardon the pun?) @LuLego i just spotted the candy cane mozaic window made out of cheeses, that is awesome.

Switchfoot55

^I couldn't agree more that your mosaic windows are incredible @LuLego! 

My wife told me to not get any ideas after showing her your Santa's Workshop. 

Too late...

LuLego

I must confess that there is some sticky tape on the round window and that some of the cheese wedges in the mosaics needed some persuasion to stay in place by means of ‘kragle’.

The mosaics started me off... I saw some pictures of mosaics by Katie Walker and I was really inspired to use her designs into a whole moc. As soon as I saw her Christmas star design, it made me think of doors to Santa’s Workshop and the whole thing started from there...

Thanks for all the comments!

LuLego

This article is certainly worth a read
http://mosaicbricks.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/cheese-slope-mosaics-tutorial.html?m=1

I had never thought of using cheese slopes before and the best part was that I had (as we all do) literally hundreds of cheese wedges lying around.

It is strange how builds evolve out of one initial starting point.

eMJeeNL

Okay fellow WV-builders, now let's take it to the next level...
https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/156987-gigantic-christmas-village/
OMG!

bfeighery

Looks like I better start planning for next year now...

tamamahm

Yeah. That is gorgeous, and I love the tiers. I still have an unopened Medieval Village around here, which I think would make a lovely start to a Medieval winter type scene. That is what that link reminds me of, but at a scale I sure can not match. 

Switchfoot55

Holy cow! Next level indeed!

I have a seller I'm working with right now who has several boxes of sets. Trying to clarify the price, but if I can get it, I'd be the owner of, among many many other offerings, two #10193 Medieval Market Village sets and could easily incorporate them into my village. 

Fingers crossed!

monkey_roo

Village is up in our house now. Tried to add some lights this year and a few custom figures rocking th Christmas jumper.

carnage717

Switchfoot55 said:ki

Holy cow! Next level indeed!

I have a seller I'm working with right now who has several boxes of sets. Trying to clarify the price, but if I can get it, I'd be the owner of, among many many other offerings, two #10193 Medieval Market Village sets and could easily incorporate them into my village. 

Fingers crossed!

I bought the medieval market as well to incorporate into my future winter village,  I especially like the look of the white  building,  would make a great stable on the bottom

snowhitie

Been following the thread for a while and loving the set-ups again this year.
@monkey_roo the lady with the red dress, she's got a brown hat on (reminicent of Dr Zhivago for me) is that just somebody's hair turned the other way or is that a piece?

@LuLego Amazing, love how you started from mosaics to the whole shebang, love the little scenes too.

This is our finalised WV. Already posted a picture of the mountain on the WIYLS thread, but this is the whole thing in low resolution picture. More and full resolution pictures on my Flickr Winter village album






And there's a little video of the train going round too. Would love to get a setup where I can film what the train sees, but I've not got the technology.

gmonkey76

@snowhitie if I had to guess it would be this piece. https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=99240&idColor=88#T=C&C=88

omnium

You lot are a bad influence on me. I'm about 7 or 8 hours into a winter scene and reckon I have a good few hours to go to complete it :-O

monkey_roo

@snowhitie the piece is the head gear from Wiley Fusebot LegoMovie CMF - https://brickset.com/sets/71004-14/Wiley-Fusebot

snowhitie

Thanks @monkey_roo

@omnium good luck, maybe you can get the whole family involved (grandma, grandpa, boozy auntie Susan?)

HangedSanchez

This is mine. Not as impressive as most of these, but it's sat in a windowsill overlooking a footpath, and the attention it gets from the public is amazing!

wardm

My layout this year. Not the best image, but you get the picture! (At the far right is Santa’s workshop and the snow vehicle)

brickedin

Here are a couple of shots from my winter village. Merry Christmas.

LuLego

Wow @brickedin
This is amazing.
is there an inside to the building?

brickedin

@LuLego, Certainly is

https://www.flickr.com/photos/brickedin/albums/72157649371922327

hopefully thats the flicker album :)

LuLego

brickedin said:

@LuLego, Certainly is

https://www.flickr.com/photos/brickedin/albums/72157649371922327

hopefully thats the flicker album :)

Love it!!!!!
I have a confession: I had this photo saved on my photo stream when I built mine! When I googled ‘lego santa’s Workshop moc’ back in the summer yours is the first picture to be seen.

amazing build.

brickedin

Thank you, very impressed by yours also.

omnium

OK, so a marathon session today and I finished it at 5pm on the dot. Cutting it fine for Christmas *this* year, but I just about squeezed it in. Phew!

tamamahm

That is really cool. I love how it is one display merging winter village and those mountain platforms to add in the larger Lego items. Very cool!

omnium

tamamahm said:

That is really cool. I love how it is one display merging winter village and those mountain platforms to add in the larger Lego items. Very cool!

Thanks :)
Yes, that was the idea. I wanted to keep all our Christmas sets together. Before, they were hard to keep organisated and looking presentable, rather than a jumbled mess.
But I didn't want to mix them up too much. So the giants overlook the little people in Winter Village. :)

brickventures

Hi everybody, long time lurker, first time poster.   I saw so many awesome builds in this thread which inspired me this year to make my best effort to start my winter village. Merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone!  

Oh and sharing some pics, too :)



 

LuLego

I love this thread!
This is a topic I’ll certainly miss discussing after the holiday.

Already looking forward to next year’s builds.

Thanks to all who shared photos.

When can we start predicting next year’s winter village prediction?!

EKSam

My winter village. There was too much “snow” so the buildings look like they are about to fall. But my 5 year old insists that we need that much snow.

brickventures

Sharing a video of holiday train running in my winter village
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/38419728175/in/dateposted-public/

eMJeeNL

Yay! Got the Gingerbreadhouse #40139 for Christmas! :) That's a nice addition to the WV for next year.

bfeighery

My dining room looks so sad without a display up. Got a 2nd train in the boxing day sale though.. and the post office set for Christmas so next year will be awesome.

milamber

I managed to pick up an extra couple of trains for £37.50 each too. No idea what to do with them, but love a bargain

sid3windr

brickventures said:

Sharing a video of holiday train running in my winter village
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/38419728175/in/dateposted-public/

Looks like you decoupled the rotating tree? Seems there's a lot less wheelsping like that indeed...

Switchfoot55

@LuLego, who says we have to stop talking about this after the holidays!? I have a thousand ideas I'll need help creating. Count on this thread staying alive!

@EKSam, what did you use to light your scene?


It's looking like I might be able to pick up the Village Market, sealed, for $100. Fingers crossed!

sid3windr

I also got the Market, for a bit more than that - alas, the "24h delivery" (inside Belgium, a country as big as a handkerchief) has taken 7 days so far and there's no improvement in tracking. Big sigh.

tamamahm

I bought the 3-in-1 Winter Vacation Modular on 1/1. I did the main build. I really like that one, and think it will fit in well with my display. If it ever goes on a good discount, I think I would want at least one more. 

Since my display was a bit more of a winter display this year, the nice advantage is it will stay up through January.

EKSam

@sid3windr
I just used the LED pucklights from Costco. Although not pictured, I also added the tiny strings of LED lights from target. 

eMJeeNL

Taking apart my WV for the first time since I started it 3 yrs ago. It has outgrown the containers that fit our cupboards, so everything is being taken apart per set and stored in ziplocks. Painful...

But on the other hand, I get to put everything back together next year! I even suggested to  my better half to simultaneously build a set each for next years' (basically this years, but who cares) iteration. My suggestion was met with a condescending smirk.

Guess I'll just be happy she lets me collect and even display out in the open, then. ;)

Next up (after some more deconstruction): #10260 Downtown Diner and #60175!

bfeighery

i'm getting ready for the ziplocking of the sets this weekend, but i did receive a 2nd train that i got in the boxing day sale and a frozen set to add to the mix.  to save space i think i will just keep up my moc elements and dismantle all the other winter sets so i can have the option of reconstructing next year or going for a megabuild of some sort and use the parts in that.

tamamahm

Polybag with a Friends snowboarder was a bit over $1 today at Target. I grabbed a few for my winter scene.

eMJeeNL

I'm also tearing down my MOC's, as they have been together for 2 years now. Next year, new and (hopefully) better MOC's. The MOCs of the passenger cars of my 2 trains will go in the train-ziplock, as they will be how I want to put them back together next year. (6 bricks longer).

Yesterday, I found a part of a reddish-brown clip after finishing up zip locking Santa's Workshop... Guess those pieces have a name that they break, but it's a first for me. Fortunately I've got some replacements in my inventory, and hope it'll remain the one piece that breaks whilst deconstructing.

snowhitie

I always break down my sets from year to year. I do leave the tiles on the floor of the wv cottage, since putting all those 1x1's straight is not easy and getting them off is a bit of a hullaballoo too. Leave some of the sofa's etc together too, but overal I break it down. Enjoy building it up to get in the Xmas spirit.

The MOC's too and hopefully next year I will be able to make them even better.