gambort Posted January 20, 2011 Posted January 20, 2011 Ararat 1972 by gambort, on Flickr Mike Pianta and I worked from 1800km apart to make this LEGO layout for Brickvention 2011 in Melbourne. It lasted two days and is now mostly destroyed. But it was very fun while it lasted. More info on TBB More pics on flickr More pics on BS Hope you enjoy, Tim Quote
pinioncorp Posted January 20, 2011 Posted January 20, 2011 Disappointed I missed out on this, looks fantastic. The really natural terrain shape is stunning, coupled with two of the country's best train creators' MOCs. The fact you managed to do it so far apart from each other is a miracle. Keep it up. Quote
lightningtiger Posted January 20, 2011 Posted January 20, 2011 Now that's fantastic 'gambort', any chance of close up's of the buildings and VR rolling stock ? (Gives me inspiration for New Mannum ) What more can I say but, totally Brick On 'gambort' ! Quote
gambort Posted January 20, 2011 Author Posted January 20, 2011 Now that's fantastic 'gambort', any chance of close up's of the buildings and VR rolling stock ? (Gives me inspiration for New Mannum ) What more can I say but, totally Brick On 'gambort' ! Short answer, not easily. Long answer follows... Most of the stock is Mike's and is up in Mike's flickr pages (or will be). I didn't get any good shots of the facades but maybe someone else did. Keep checking out the group and general shots of BV2011 to see if any appear. And unlike much of the diorama they should hopefully be somewhat intact so maybe I'll take pics at home of my favourites some day but it won't be soon. Tim Quote
Selander Posted January 20, 2011 Posted January 20, 2011 Really impressive stuff - top-notch. "The-off-the-grid-concept" looks so much better that the usual regular square pattern. Also, I like to praise your choice of "natural-looking" colors, which brings a lot of realism to the scenary, I'm just allergic to town scenes in bright yellow, red, blue and green.... Quote
LEGO Guy Bri Posted January 20, 2011 Posted January 20, 2011 Great layout you built there, gambort Quote
AussieJimbo Posted January 20, 2011 Posted January 20, 2011 Brilliant stuff, gambort. So much great detail. :classic: Quote
mpec82 Posted January 20, 2011 Posted January 20, 2011 Fantastic layout, liked a lot how you've done the trees. Quote
kost u grlu Posted January 20, 2011 Posted January 20, 2011 Truly a masterpiece! It looks more like a HO diorama than a LEGO one, because of that "out of grid" way of build...which I think is great! Quote
buddy Posted January 20, 2011 Posted January 20, 2011 Excellent layout, it looks very realistic and is highly detailed. Extremely well done to both of you. ~buddy~ Quote
gambort Posted January 20, 2011 Author Posted January 20, 2011 Thanks all :) Truly a masterpiece! It looks more like a HO diorama than a LEGO one, because of that "out of grid" way of build...which I think is great! Making it look like an HO diorama was our hope and building off the grid was a requirement. I'm glad you think we achieved that. Tim Quote
WesternOutlaw Posted January 21, 2011 Posted January 21, 2011 Hi Gambort. I saw this on TBB but didn't realize this was your work. I was thinking exactly what kost u grlu mentioned about the HO-look of the entire scene. I especially like the angle of the train town adding to the high quality detail as well as the track bed. Great job to you and Mike for this "top-notch" creation. Quote
talltim Posted January 21, 2011 Posted January 21, 2011 Sureley it would look more like an O scale layout? Quote
peterab Posted January 21, 2011 Posted January 21, 2011 Easily the best Lego train layout I've ever seen. All I want now is to get Mike more involved in the M>LTC so I can glom on to his detailing techniques myself :-) Sureley it would look more like an O scale layout? Depends which bit you looked at. They used a different scale towards the back to achieve a forced perspective so the facades at the back were probably smaller than O scale. And don't call me Shirley. Quote
gambort Posted January 22, 2011 Author Posted January 22, 2011 Depends which bit you looked at. They used a different scale towards the back to achieve a forced perspective so the facades at the back were probably smaller than O scale. And don't call me Shirley. And thanks again. Yeah some of it (eg. most of the cars) was about O scale (1:45-1:48) but the buildings at the back were probably closer to 1:60 and the trains were somewhere between the two extremes. Tim Quote
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