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I can't find the link right now, but the results were excellent.
Always interested to see what other people are using, there might be much better ones out there.
And on the lamp posts, there are two different variations - one you can buy through PaB with four base flutes, but the 'real' six base fluted came with the first few modulars. I put the six flute posts in a bag and use the four flute posts on the table.
^ Expanded sidewalk.
^ Non-expanded sidewalk.
And don't forget to add trees in planter boxes and benches for bus stops as well...
Also, I don't believe fire hydrants are very European. They're certainly not at all British, as our fire hydrants tend to be buried under ground and marked with a concrete sign:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=british+fire+hydrant+sign&safe=active&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiKloTkz9DPAhWhB8AKHY5uCooQ_AUICCgB&biw=1008&bih=492
To make it more British, I could add some nasty wheelie bins and the like... But I won't... ;-)
^ Dog poo would make it more British, perhaps?
And a Tower of Orthanc at one end. ;->
Grrr... :-D
This was my solution that I posted before. Its changed a bit now as the PC has moved to the other end of the street.
I've designed a few benches that sit nicely on the pavements and borrowed a postbox from my daughters Friends sets!
I guess it is a vending machine in the end - so I'm showing how much I know! Maybe my subconscious realised it better than I did since I did place it in front of my school.
In my defence, I've not got many, but I do have lots of post boxes on my streets :)
I'd be happier if fire hydrants dispensed candy, gum or carbonated drinks. That would make for much happier (and heavier) firefighters.
By the way, did the guys in your picture overindulge in whatever was in that green bottle?
Course not. I'm sure I saw a similar idea on Instagram and just added to it. The Brick Bank now sits on that corner and has a second of the pavement patterns on that outer corner to make it look better.
So far the bricks are all from sets in my collection, too lazy to bricklink them. Maybe in future can BL the rarer coloured bricks if I don't have them.
3rd trip to Argos by my partner, they informed him they'd cancelled my original transaction (due to their previous foul-ups) and would refund me electronically in a week's time. He was unaware that I'd paid with a combo of my Paypal funds and an Ebay voucher, so didn't realise the amount they were proposing to refund was not the actual total amount I'd paid (and which I have proof of having paid in an email). (He asked the staff, but they swore up and down that it was the right sum.) So now he's paid full price for it, only finding out the context when he got home and asked me to confirm whether what he'd been told was right.
Had to call customer services (who I could never get through to before), who said it shouldn't have happened like that, so going back on Thursday to get partner's money back, ensure I am actually refunded the right amount, and return the set, as I would not have bought the thing in the first place if I hadn't been able to put the Ebay voucher toward it. Bleh!
Realising we needed some card to wrap a parcel in last night I used the box from a large-ish Ninjago set. Then concluded that as I have no plans to sell my sets on, there was no need to keep the other boxes so about 30 have now gone in the recycling. Going to spread them over several collection dates, but they will all be gone soon.
I stopped all building over the past few months (ever since July) so that whenever I did have spare time for LEGO it would be used to sort. As a result, I'm now down to 3 or 4 Rubbermaid containers that are sorted by color (still have dark bley, red, blue, black, technic, mini figs and wheels/tires to sort). I've broken down so many MOCs and sorted so many containers of loose LEGO that I ran out of space in my storage drawers for sorted parts. I'm now storing colors that I don't build with in the space that I stored stuff that needed to be sorted. In essence, I'm making room for sorted bricks by sorting I sorted bricks. Less clutter and more organization in order to get my collection of bricks easier to build with.
Much like Shib posted above, I also had a revelation...I was buying too much LEGO!!! As a result, I've slowed down purchases considerably and question how much of my LEGO funds needs to go towards sets.
Please note that sharing this is not complaining. I feel very fortunate to have all of the LEGO that I have. This forum discussion just seems like the place to share what I've been doing with those that can relate to or understand how much time and effort goes into this hobby so when the time comes to build you can see what you have to build with.
Zombie Baby enjoys the ride with his teddy.
A few horses short of a merry-go-round.
Making my own sails - feels like I'm at art college. 55p for an A4 piece of felt? Thank you Hobbycraft. Nearly lost a finger with that knife though ;-)
Please post more photos!!! Will the carousel be motorised?
I don't know if I'll ever be able to recycle the instructions, but I'm working my way up to the boxes. I realised that the boxes are quite a space suck when I started putting boxes inside of boxes inside of boxes... and it's like a never ending set of Russian Dolls to find sets.
Though if a strong wind were to blow through the windows the whole thing would topple, which happened once or twice.
On to Thursday!
Damn you Double Points!