What are you building right now?

mlarue3

This bad boy!

Kavster

Hello everyone!
I am in the process of trying to complete the modular buildings.
In the mean time, while I'm saving for some of the more expensive and older ones, i've decided to put some lights inside the existing buildings I have.
I tried lighting up just two buildings so far, but i'm so impressed with how they look, i'm going to buy some more lights.
I am just about to start building the Parisian Café too!

I have also started to build some of the Technic range.
These were both fantastic builds, and i'm really impressed with them!

JELJ1S

@kavster The Modulars look incredible!  Im finally stting up my Lego building space and will have all of the modulars on display.  I planned on lightning them up also and your display made it a certainty!  how did you run your lights?  Any info would be greatly appreciated!

Rsa33

Am I correct in assuming that all the modular grand emporiums have the baseplate curving in that particular spot?

I read some older threads where the curving was attributed to laying the large tiles down?

do other corner bldgs, ie cafe corner and palace cinema, also share this issue of the curving baseplate?

whats best way if there is a way to fix this?  Any help appreciated, thanks

Kavster

@JELJ1S - I used the system from BrickStuff (Click for link)
It was a very easy to use and simple set up. Click HERE to see how it works.
I managed to use one set to light two buildings. I'll probably buy another one set to light my Cinema and Parisian Restaurant (when it's built).

@Rsa33 - I have only found this on my Grand Emporium. It's not on the cinema for some reason. I don't have the Café Corner unfortunately, so I can't comment on that one.
I don't have any fixes for it, but would be interested to hear of any ideas that people have! 

JELJ1S

@rsa33 I have the GE and i dont recall it curving up like that.  i will have to take a look when i unpackage it this weekend. 

JELJ1S

@kavster Thanks for the info!  I'll be looking into those as an option for sure.

Renny

Silly question but do those lights cause any fading or "yellowing" of the bricks?  Just wondering, as they look great.

Briking

@Rsa33 I think my GE has a bulge like that as well.  If I recall correctly, the first 3 modulars were built on two 16x32 plates, so you wouldn't have gotten the same tension in the plate.

Kavster

@Renny I've only just installed them today, but they are low power LED, so I'd be really surprised if they did cause any fading etc. 
Plus, I wouldn't have the lights on for am extended period of time anyway.

Rsa33

this curving of the GE baseplate must be a combination of the 32 x 32 baseplate as well as brick distribution in the overall structure...

altho by that logic PC should suffer the same fate as well?

have placed large paper weights to see if this will even it out.  

Am leary of trying to bend it and potentially damage the baseplate.

Briking

Actually got to do some building tonight. A full set of the Daily Mail polybags laid out on the kitchen table. Tonight I did #30305 #30303 and #30274

Neat little builds.

VorpalRyu

Our little mister six just built #60033, only needed a little bit of assistance with the stickers. :)

ColoradoBricks

Funny thing happened... about 3 weeks ago, I saw a forum post about #3724 LEGO Dragon and like an invisible hand was guiding me that evening, I was creating bricklink orders for that set while half way through the orders, I noticed that it shared a lot of pieces with #3723 LEGO Mini-Figure.
So 11 BL orders and 1 P&B later here we are.... while the layer builds are what they are, I love the end result, much taller than I though (see the minifig in the picture for scale)

Jern92

Finally finished rebuilding all my modulars since I've torn them down to move from NZ to Malaysia. Nice to see them all up again. :-)

hkcrazy88

Just started the Tumbler, totally loving it!!

Briking

Just finished #10248 that I picked up at the Lego store.  Really enjoyed the build, but annoyed I had to get 2 pieces out of my spares to complete it.

The nipper really enjoyed #21302 and #21108, so a good day was had by all.  Even though we screwed up on buying it in two tranches to get extra poly bags.

Scogali

Just finished updating my modular city... until the 2016 modular comes out at least!

OrmskirkBricks

Just finished the Scooby Doo Mystery-Mansion A fun build! 

DNA

I finished this with my 8 year old. I'm going to help my youngest with the juniors Batman defend the Batcave later. I really like the junior sets.

 

JELJ1S

Started this last night.

hoodaddy

Working on a soccer field for my son and daughter. About half way there, planning to populate it with some custom FC Barcelona minifigs as a Christmas present :)

Rsa33

Baronsats death star playset...awesome build so far, cheers

Rsa33

Legoboy

@Rsa33,  interesting design of the superlaser.

chuxtoybox

Rsa33 said:

Parts of this remind me of the Kenner Death Star playset I had as a kid. :)


Man, I wish I still had that!

Rsa33

Yah the creator based it on the old kenner playsets; the second build is even better than the first :)

Can't wait to finish and put all the mini figs on :)

jadedanc

My mosaics. Getting down to finishing 2 of my mosaics. What does everybody think? The first one is an homage to LSU Tigers (my fav college team). And the second is a USMC Emblem I am making for my mom who was a Marine back in 1963. 

Rsa33

Just missing a few tiles and dark blue plates...otherwise an amazing build.

def enjoyed the second building and tower more so than the first :)

jaitheartist

Just finished Temple of Airjitzu recently, now onto the Scooby Doo Mystery Machine. Taking awhile with all these stickers! 

Shib

Just built #70169 - love the robot dog, have #8399 : K-9 Bot in my collection, and the Ultra Agent robot dog is a nice improvement on the Space Police one.

dragon114

working on building all of this

Kavster

I have just finished building my pet shop. I was not sure about buying it at first (discussed on a different thread), but in the end I'm glad I did. I really enjoyed the build!

JELJ1S

@Kavster Excellent city layout! Is there any particular reason you don't have your building joined together?

 I just finished the #10224 Town Hall last night.  I think Palace Cinema is next.
I'm going to replace the Bride and Groom with my wife and my wedding minifigs from our wedding, just as soon as we dig through all of our wedding junk from July.

Kavster

@JELJ1S - Thanks! And it's only temporary, I'm in the process of putting in the lights, so just easier to get them down from the shelf. Once it's all finished, I'll push them together!

and cool! That's one of the older ones I want. I'm considering trying to BL it. I need to learn how to do it at some point! 

Fauch

I guess it'll still cost an arm an a leg. unless you build it in tan instead of orange maybe.

brumey

planning to build a huge tall ninja fortress. the theme will be a crossover from old castle lego, space and new ninjago.
still adapting new snot techniques (23 years dark age) and sorting tons of bricks from mixed lots!

i have the mechanism for lowering the bridge and the dungeon fall door already built. also some citizens: zombie ninjas. gangsta with wood leg. drunk girls. sorcerers. black knight with personal guards. and lots of ninjago villains!

but the sorting. oh my . THE SORTING FIRST

OrmskirkBricks

Well, I am 2/3s of the way through the Technic 42009 Mobile Crane II! What a build! Picked up for £112 from Tesco Direct, which is a very low price for this set. So far the main truck, and crane arm base built, and I'd say 8 hours in.

RevBlues

I'm currently updating my "Winter Village Castle Keep" to turn it into a "Winter Village English Church".  It was always supposed to be the latter, but I had to make it the former in order to qualify for Ideas.

My original proposal can be found here:

https://ideas.lego.com/projects/88167

My current design in LDD.  (I've actually built it as the castle, but I don't have access to a decent camera at the moment so haven't taken any photos of the real thing yet.  I've added a St. George's flag to the top - it is Anglican, after all. )

Paperballpark

I'm still building my large railway station. I've finally run out of all the 1x2x2 clear panels that I've bought over the last year. Which means I now know for certain how many more I need to finish the project. 2890. Which means I've used 8630...

Rails

Paperballpark said:

I'm still building my large railway station. I've finally run out of all the 1x2x2 clear panels that I've bought over the last year. Which means I now know for certain how many more I need to finish the project. 2890. Which means I've used 8630...

Wow that does sound large! How long are the platforms in terms of straight track pieces?

Paperballpark

Each platform has 15 straight pieces under the canopy, and a couple extra past the canopy. There are eight platforms in the full station, and four if only displaying half of it.

Rails

Paperballpark said:

Each platform has 15 straight pieces under the canopy, and a couple extra past the canopy. There are eight platforms in the full station, and four if only displaying half of it.

Cool, so if my maths is right that makes the canopies 240 studs or 192 cm long? So you should easily be able to fit a full length Horizon Express in the station assuming it's just two power cars and four carriages. Impressive :)

Paperballpark

Yes, that's correct. The full canopy covers twenty 48x48 baseplates (4x5), and the 'half' canopy takes up 2x5.

The full station should be at Brick 2015 (if accepted), and probably at STEAM too - if I can finish it in time. If not, it'll just be the half station displayed at STEAM.

danstraindepot

Can't wait to see some photos.  I love train stations!

Rebelego

Today I will be rebuilding #10220-1 T1 Camper and my wife will be rebuilding the #10242-1 Mini Cooper!

CapnRex101

I have just started on the last Star Wars: The Force Awakens set: #75104 Kylo Ren's Command Shuttle.

Paperballpark

These are based on an idea I saw at Bricktastic. I can't remember the name of the guy who I nicked the signal design from though. Sorry!

Jern92

I'm itching to build my Tower Bridge, but I'm moving on the 27th so will have to wait till then. Argh this is torture!

Lee

This is something I was working on a while ago. I guess you could call it one of the unfinished.