Phil B Posted December 23, 2015 Posted December 23, 2015 Spent some time with the kids (9yr b/g twins) building our first annual Winter Village display. Sample pictures below and full set of pictures on my Flickr account. Setup consists of a village diorama on a table, plus a kidney-shaped train track around the Christmas tree and a "North Pole" area. My local LEGO store's PaB-wall is now out of white plates :) Quote
lanesteele240 Posted December 23, 2015 Posted December 23, 2015 Very nice. I bet you had a blast working on that Quote
LegoSjaak Posted December 23, 2015 Posted December 23, 2015 Nice layout! What surprised me most, was the background! To me it is pretty new to see a background being done in Lego this way... It worked out fine and the beams of the sun made me smile!! Quote
alsielou Posted December 23, 2015 Posted December 23, 2015 Wow this is epic! Is this really the first time you've built all the sets? What fun!! I too was surprised and pleased to see the cute background. How long did it take to work on all this? It looks great. Nice trees too. Love that holiday train. I so hope Lego rereleases it someday!! Quote
Phil B Posted December 23, 2015 Author Posted December 23, 2015 Wow this is epic! Is this really the first time you've built all the sets? What fun!! I too was surprised and pleased to see the cute background. How long did it take to work on all this? It looks great. Nice trees too. Love that holiday train. I so hope Lego rereleases it someday!! The Toy Shop, Santa's Workshop, Gingerbread House and Changing Seasons are all new builds from this year - kids built all of them over the last 2 weekends. The Winter Cottage and the Elf Workshop were sets we had, rebuilt with my son. The Winter Village Market was a CraigsList find - assembled, so no build required. Putting it all together (excluding several trips to LEGO Pick-a-Brick for all the white 4x6 plates and cheese slopes etc. that make up the rest) took maybe 10 hours spread over several days. The sets are basically placed first, and then connected into the greater display. The backdrop was an impromptu idea - we wanted to use the blue baseplates as a "river" first, but it didn't look good. My son actually has a really good eye for patterns and how to make something interesting, and the fact that we had some non-LEGO compatible slightly different color of grey plates helped create additional variety in the backdrop. And yes, this is my first diorama ... glad you like it! Quote
Mr Greeble Posted December 23, 2015 Posted December 23, 2015 Wow, this is impressive! You should be proud! Quote
Crossbones Posted December 23, 2015 Posted December 23, 2015 Nice - sure you all had great fun setting that up! Quote
Kyky Posted December 23, 2015 Posted December 23, 2015 great diorama, very inspiring I like very much the Sun :D Quote
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