[MOC] Building a glider airfield: designed & built a small control

[bjornkeizers]

Hey gang!

Apart from my interest in LEGO, I also happen to be quite the aviation nut. On my most recent plane spotting trip to Schiphol, I picked up two LEGO glider sets, 4442 http://brickset.com/sets/4442-1/Glider

I'm currently in the process of building up a little city with some modulars, couple of roads... and I want to add a detailed glider field to it, rather than the so-so airport sets of old.

So I figured I'd design a little shed of a type that's fairly common on many small fields. It doubles as a rain shed, meeting spot, 'control tower' and a place to grab a cup of coffee.

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The design is of the usual prefab cabin type, decorated in the aviation standard color scheme of red and white squares for visibility. I designed it in LDD first, then ordered a ton of parts through Bricklink. The design was only finalised when I built it - as is usual - when I discovered a few ways to tweak it here and there. For instance, the first LDD build did not have the removable roof sections.

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All in all, I'm quite pleased with the result. The green plate under it is only a temporary thing, it's eventually going on the 32x32's that are sitting here, but I'll need a few more parts for the rest of the airfield (taxiway lights, fences, windsock, bike rack, glider tow, picnic table, etc. etc.)

If anyone would like the LDD file -which would severely surprise as well as flatter me- I'll be happy to share it here.

[SollX]

Looks good!

very recognizable.

living in the flevopolder myself i sometimes come across a glider airfield some times and this could fit in nice.

great size. it could have been transported there by a city scale truck.

[Only Sinner]

This is great! looks just like a real one.

[bjornkeizers]

Thanks guys! I also posted this on Reddit's LEGO sub and the comments were all quite wonderful. Mostly: "that looks exactly like my local airfield!" which means I did a nice job with it

Of course, it helps that the red/white checker pattern is the global aviation standard, so all of them are pretty much painted like this by default. And yes, being modelled after a prefab cabin, a decent sized City flatbed would haul this nicely.

I'm actually planning on doing a possible second build of this but more in tower form, just to see what I could build in this theme.