Today’s LEGO City Advent Calendar entry gives us our second minifigure.
Category: City/Town
LEGO Town or City models
LEGO City Advent 2020 Day 4
On the 4th day of our City Advent adventure, we get a cute little pickup truck.
LEGO City Advent 2020 Day 3
Our third model from this year’s LEGO City Advent Calendar continues the police theme from yesterday with a very small model of a police station.
LEGO City Advent 2020 Day 2
For the second day of this year’s City Advent calendar we get our first minifigure.
LEGO City Advent 2020 Day 1
The first day of this year’s City calendar is a micro version of a LEGO set: 60266 Ocean Exploration Ship.
Continue reading “LEGO City Advent 2020 Day 1”
House Concert
This musical family is performing a social-distance concert for their neighbors from their front porch and balcony in the time of COVID-19. Stay safe and stay home!
Octan Gas Station
My LEGO gas station is now on display at the LEGO store in Pleasanton, California at the Stoneridge Mall. I built it in 2012 and first showed it at Bricks by the Bay, but never posted a blog entry about it until now. Continue reading “Octan Gas Station”
BayLTC at TCA 2012
The Bay Area LEGO Train Club displayed a train layout at the Train Collectors’ Association Cal-Stewart Spring Meet, in Santa Clara, California, on March 2-4, 2012.
This is one of our favorite events to display at, as they have a fairly low stress environment and it is in a very nice facility. We set up our exhibit on Friday afternoon, March 2, and finished setup Saturday morning. On Saturday, however, the show was only open to members of the TCA who were there for the Meet, so the crowd levels were low-stress. Sunday was busier, as it was open to the public from 10am-2pm. In past years, the attendance for the public day at this event has been fairly light, and we haven’t bothered putting up our “sneeze guards” (Plexiglass barriers that keep the little kids from reaching into the layout), but this year we quickly realized they had done a much better job promoting it, and we had to scramble to get the sneeze guards up before too many fingers found their way into places they shouldn’t (or worse yet, took things they shouldn’t … you know how grabby little kids can be around toys). Once we had them up, the crowd lightened up again, but we were still glad we did it.
This event was held at the Santa Clara Convention Center, where we will be holding Bricks by the Bay in two weeks. While we were there, I had a chance to meet with our representative from the Convention Center and tour the facilities we will be using along with some of the convention volunteers who were also participating in the layout. We finalized the BBTB event schedule and locations where all the activities will be held.
This year the layout was a rather unusual shape for us. Usually we make a big ring of tables, and Bruce brings a gate that carries two tracks across it, so we can have two loops of track circling the entire layout. But Bruce wasn’t able to attend so we tried a new design, making a large “C” shape instead, with the two loops of track doubling back at each end, making a total of four tracks around the layout. It worked quite well, but it presented us with a new esthetic challenge, as there was now a stretch with four parallel tracks and no structures. When I saw that Friday night, I decided we needed a signal gantry, so that night I whipped one up and I am quite happy how it came out.
Take a look at the pictures from the show. Click the image below, or view all the photos as a slideshow.
Yellow Victorian House
This is the third of my LEGO houses that often feature in the suburbia section of BayLUG/BayLTC train layouts.
I built a couple of years ago, but like the last several posts, I never got around to posting about it here. There is a lot of detail work on the porch and bay windows.
Click the image below to see the set or view a slideshow.
Red House
This is one of those LEGO creations of mine that’s been around for years but never blogged about before.
A simple red house that I built a few years ago, which has been in may BayLUG/BayLTC exhibits but was never featured on its own until now.
Click the image for the gallery or view a slideshow.