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evancelt

Fauch said:

I'm surprised it bends that much

They are 5 independent strands of plates with tiles on top of them - because they don't connect to one another except at the start they can slide longitudinally to fill the gaps!

560Heliport

I recently got a lot of headlight bricks from PAB, in Bright Yellow, New Dark Red, and Transparent. If you put four together "sideways", you get this.

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You can put a bunch of these "quadrants" together and get this:

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Or, if you take every other quadrant and rotate it 90° (so red is upper left/lower right, instead of yellow) and stagger them so you have a checkerboard pattern, you get this:

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A big enough chunk is pretty flexible:

Switchfoot55

That would make for a cool window or "tiled" floor look. Nice discovery!

560Heliport

If you want some studs to attach minifigures, furniture, etc. you can just turn some studs up: the bottoms of those parts will stick down exactly the height of a stud, so you can attach this to a baseplate (or large plate, or bricks) to position it and secure it. 
The first pattern looks like something woven. I bet similar colors like Brick Yellow and Sand Yellow would look great.

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(Now I'd better return this coaster to the common room before Gryffindor realizes I "borrowed" it!)  ;)

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Switchfoot55 said:

That would make for a cool window or "tiled" floor look. Nice discovery!

I got the idea from "The Ultimate Lego Book", from DK, ©1999. There's a picture of a coaster in red and yellow, with 1x8 tiles on the edges.

560Heliport

Each quadrant is 2x2 when flat, as for flooring, or 5 plates (or a brick and 2 plates) tall for a window. Very easy to calculate what works!

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Also, as a tiled floor, it eliminates lining up potentially hundreds of 1x1 tiles!

Fauch

I think I remember that, it's at the end of the book with some other pretty interesting technics like building chains / snakes I think.

Speedman29

Picked up #76912 for £12 the other day, house to myself tonight so grabbed a beer, stuck Fast & Furious on to build along to....

....I'm obviously a slow builder! Or I waited an hour before starting the set to get the right frame from the film!

Switchfoot55

I'm just thankful the All Seeing Owls are they to keep you on track. 

WesterBricks

Some people rescue neglected animals, I rescue neglected Lego sets.

Speedman29

Switchfoot55 said:

I'm just thankful the All Seeing Owls are they to keep you on track. 

The table covering is living on borrowed time. Its really badly faded in the sun and I had to slice a section off as it had got torn. New one for next year, so might be the last outing for the owls.

Lo1sJess

@Speedman29 don’t know how to post a screenshot but this has similiar owls tablecloths in UK

https://www.ebay.com/itm/192476863266?hash=item2cd083db22:g:bWwAAOSwD4laoUZO&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAoH%2BFwy%2FUTAWclPReRVb5lwjVnWF0vGMGRnwl8o0A%2BaJKOoVMyo4ic81AkQBrpHjYCA%2BVtYxkjQ8t7POsqpMQfQiWe2xqCKUHrUA%2B%2F2tU2TuFPgjEQNTVOJ94siERnWXnMPeVB%2FzO94Dk8ChKYcTVNbqKuW7nHUMKe%2Bz0PnRKMQX6QnTKb6CIQne7L%2Fml5J9moGT5bDstWa5PyVRTz9pbddE%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR7b56JySYQ

WesterBricks

Rescued the Winter Village Cottage from a bulk lot. The usual story: no minifigures, I replaced most of the missing parts from my collection, and it needs about $25 in additional parts, mainly the super expensive dark green window frames.

Brickfan50

evancelt said:

Working on a national park scene. Started on the river section

Parts intensive just got a new meaning here!

Lo1sJess

Just built #10235 got it secondhand off eBay last year.  Was missing 4 pieces I luckily had.  Was nice build but had to do some adjusting to get the carousel to turn more smoothly.  Also built #40564 which was fun little build.  Very nice Sunday afternoon.

bluedragon

FollowsClosely

More progress on my Black Falcon Barbican. Murder holes are not your friend!

560Heliport

I just wanted to use that Dark Azure lattice plate... It all looks closer to Bright Blue in this photo. Thanks to @SumoLego for the Clone Lieutenants! 

560Heliport

So I have three #10497, built as 928, 924, and 918. I was wondering if the leftover pieces were close to what would be neede to build another 928. Fairly close, and many of the additional parts are hidden, so I set aside what can be used, and looked at the... leftover leftovers. So I built this!

560Heliport

For those of you who don't recognize it, here's the original: #442 in the USA, #891 in Europe.

evancelt

Made some more progress on my Rocky Mountain National Park build last night - need to start the mountains and road next

rockethead26

evancelt said:

Made some more progress on my Rocky Mountain National Park build last night - need to start the mountains and road next

The river is quite effective. Nice technique!

Phoenixio

But how does it bend?  The tiny wiggle space between each brick is enough?

WesterBricks

Looks like alternating rows of plates and tiles, looks great.

evancelt

Right - alternating plates and tiles. This makes it 5 independent flexible strands that can slide against each other for increased curviness.

Switchfoot55

I just noticed the DUPLO filler bricks. I need to remember to keep an eye out for those when I'm on the various marketplaces. I'm mostly planning on elevating my tunnel/hill segments for my WV with wood as a base and then building up from there. But at least some DUPLO would still help fill stuff out. 

PapaBear

Finally finished the Eiffel Tower 3 days after purchasing it.  I didn't really work on it much Saturday or Sunday though.  I think it took around 20 hours total to build.

WesterBricks

I’m building the Home Alone house one bag each day, like an Advent calendar.

rockethead26

WesterBricks said:

I’m building the Home Alone house one bag each day, like an Advent calendar.

Fun build!!!

FollowsClosely

Playing with the inside of my Black Falcon Barbican.

560Heliport

^ You know, some people think color inconsistency is a problem... :)
Looks great!

PJ76uk

I agree it looks great - like the NPU of the minifig leg (singular!)

Colour scheme really makes it look rustic. Can't wait to see more 👍

pxchris

Digital build.. but a build none-the-less.

As you guys know, my current theme collection obsession is Western.
One of the odd rarities that falls within that theme is a photo frame from LEGOLand Billund released circa 2002 #5923 Western Picture Frame. There are no instructions for this set online and the box photos I could find were fairly low-resolution.
Well, thankfully a avid collector in one of the Western FB groups I'm in owned this very hard to find set sealed and was able to post some close up detail photos. Those along with a Bricklink inventory allowed me to work out the build (not that it was super complicated).

In any case, I now have the build figured out and a parts list so that I can work on piecing it together IRL.

evancelt

Working on a SNOT roadway to accompany the SNOT curve river




Getting started on some mountains in the background. A few more tiers of rock and snow to go

Switchfoot55

^Looking great!

evancelt

Today I added vegetation and minifigs. It installs in the Boulder Bricks and Minifigs store next weekend alongside two other collaborators

Astrobricks

That skier is going to have a hard landing!

arathemis

Or maybe he is santa in descuise.

evancelt

We're in the process of putting the National Parks collab together for a display today. Here are the two halves of the road joined up

evancelt

Lo1sJess

WOW

Bumblepants

@evancelt do you run an independent Lego shop?

rockethead26

@Evancelt - Beautifully done by you and your collaborators.

evancelt

Bumblepants said:

@evancelt do you run an independent Lego shop?

Nope! This was installed in an independent LEGO shop called 'Bricks and Minifigs' in Boulder, CO though

rockethead26 said:

@Evancelt - Beautifully done by you and your collaborators.

Thanks!

pxchris

^^ hey... I've been in that store! :-)

The collab is coming together awesome @evancelt!