mouseketeer

This looks fantastic!! Really proud to have my train design be a part of that :)

Thanks everyone! I mentioned this in my first post, but want to be extra clear - that ingenious solution is by Peter Aoun https://flic.kr/ps/mw24R :)

I've been doing a lot of custom Winter Village MOCs over the past year, and this is my ninth! I wanted to try something a bit different, so I took my inspiration from a Christmas classic - How The Grinch Stole Christmas. The model includes the Grinch's DIY sleigh with overstuffed sack of presents (with credit to Peter Aoun for the method of attaching the 'antler'!), a Whoville House (with wiggly wavy architecture and crazy colourscheme that gave me a lot of headaches trying to get it to look right, haha - square bricks can certainly make the shapes needed tricky!), and a late addition that I have to thank the Eurobricks Xmas Raffle for (that thread gave me the idea to add this extra!) - a crooked 'Grinchmas Tree'. More photos (and photos of all my Winter Village sets) can be found on my Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/146006635@N03/albums LEGO Winter Village Whoville & The Grinch by mouseketeer 111, on Flickr LEGO Winter Village Whoville & The Grinch by mouseketeer 111, on Flickr

Here's my entry - a Christmas Tree Seuss style! Grinchmas Tree by mouseketeer 111, on Flickr

Thank you everyone, and especially @SylvainLS! That's genuinely impressive - it might take me a bit of time to understand precisely how you figured that out, haha, but it does work! Thank you!

I hope I'm not being incredibly silly asking this, but it's driving me crazy! Could someone tell me what angle I need these angled plates to be at in order to make a full curve - I've been doing it by trial and error but constantly have the last plate overhang in whatever direction, meaning I can't snap bricks around it. Thank you!

I'm doing a Winter Village display at a show in November, so my Christmassy building is stretching unusually early this year! This is my latest model - a Winter Village Firehouse! The building comes with an old fashioned style fire engine, and a hot chestnut wagon (with glowing light brick, and alternate "on fire" version to give the fire fighters an emergency to attend to!). The building comprises a garage for the fire engine (with an emergency telephone, hat stand, and Christmas tree), a kitchen area and sleeping area in the bell tower, and (of course!) a fire pole to slide down. The festive wreath on the front of the building also surrounds a hidden button that lights up the bell from inside the tower. The full album is at https://flic.kr/s/aHsm8MMRTB Winter Village Firehouse by mouseketeer 111, on Flickr Winter Village Firehouse by mouseketeer 111, on Flickr Winter Village Firehouse by mouseketeer 111, on Flickr

This November, I've signed up to display a Winter Village display at a Lego show so even though we're still months away from Christmas, I've been working away at doing more Winter Village MOCs! This is my latest one - a Winter Village Woodcarver. Designed as an ornate chalet in the forest, the model depicts the workplace of a toy-maker, with the workstation on the inside (complete with woodworking tools, paint pots, and an almost finished toy soldier), and a cuckoo clock inspired rotating platform of wooden toys on the exterior (operated using a handle on the back of the building). Alongside it is a Christmas-colored gypsy wagon (complete with a stove and cosy bed for the toy-maker to sleep in), and three ice sculptures, which light up! I've been thinking of a doing a turntable Christmas building since I saw a non-Lego Christmas Village model that did something similar. This is my fifth(!) Winter Village MOC. The rest (a pub, a chocolate factory, a church, and custom train cars for the official Winter Train) can be seen in my Flickr album. https://www.flickr.com/photos/146006635@N03/albums Winter Village Woodcarver by mouseketeer 111, on Flickr Winter Village Woodcarver by mouseketeer 111, on Flickr Winter Village Woodcarver by mouseketeer 111, on Flickr Winter Village Woodcarver by mouseketeer 111, on Flickr

Thanks @Andy D! Here's a photo next to the Toy Shop (the Bakery is the only WV set I don't have!): And to your other questions, there aren't any rare parts in this model (it's the cheapest Winter Village set I've built myself so far! I think the rarest piece is the tiller of the canal boat), and the lock and boat can very easily be separated - I actually provide the XMLs in four files (one for the building, one for the lock, one for the canal boat, and one for the birds), so you can easily exclude any of those you don't want to build.

Thanks everyone! @Venunder- the reason I went with a pub was because I knew that Lego wouldn't do their own version, haha. Of course, in a universe where Lego detectives investigate cookie smuggling operations, we can assume this pub sells fruit juice!

I realise we're practically six months away, but I need to get these ready in time! :) This is my take on a British canal-side pub at Christmas, with a narrow boat, lock, and pub building with cosy fireplace downstairs, and a four poster bed upstairs! More images are available on my Flickr at https://flic.kr/s/aHskZazD14

As a child, one of the best Lego sets I ever received was the classic Fort Legoredo set. When the Lone Ranger line came out a few years back, I loved the new designs and styles for the cowboy theme, but felt it was missing an up to date version of the classic cavalry fort. I decided a redesign of Fort Legoredo was in order, and set about designing this to incorporate new pieces, new colors (reddish brown palisade walls, and light and dark bley rockwork!), and improved design techniques. It has custom cacti, a vulture-watched cattle skeleton, a lightbrick in the fireplace, much more detailed roofs, joined up walkways along the battlements, and keeps all of the classic play features too - including the hidden gold beneath the rocks, the rifle cases, an of course the trapdoor chairs in the headquarters, dropping into the jail beneath! Full album at https://www.flickr.com/photos/146006635@N03/sets/72157684843132516/with/35079135552/ A Western scene! by mouseketeer 111, on Flickr The new fort! by mouseketeer 111, on Flickr A comparison of the original set and my reimagined set by mouseketeer 111, on Flickr

This is a model I've been planning on building for a while now, ever since my girlfriend very kindly bought me my first Harry Potter sets. While I thought the castles were terrific, I thought the train was a bit lacking, so this is my take on a "UCS" version of the train. It's got full Power Functions incorporated - lights at the front, a motor to power the pistons and wheels (despite its large size it still runs on Lego track) - and what I think is the coolest feature - if you place the train on the base, the motor inside the locomotive powers the Ford Anglia car's swaying (no extra motor is needed). I want to get the Dementors moving too one day, but for now I'm happy with it. There's a video to see it in action in my Flickr album too :) https://flic.kr/s/aHskSx364f "UCS" Hogwarts Express MOC by mouseketeer 111, on Flickr "UCS" Hogwarts Express MOC by mouseketeer 111, on Flickr "UCS" Hogwarts Express MOC by mouseketeer 111, on Flickr

Yahoo! Really happy to have got second place! Well done to @LittleJohn and @eliza! So many great entries

The passenger is actually able to fit two motors (but I think you'll need to move the 2x6 with holes plate to line the motors up properly) - and it also looks better than doing it the official way in the locomotive! HOWEVER, over Christmas I found it can actually go round with just the one motor if you weight it down a bit (I've seen people use taped up coins to do this). Much cheaper than buying extra Power Functions too :)

This is fantastic! Love seeing the train I designed as part of such a fantastic diorama. Really great!

Thank you very much, @Andy D! Just emailed them to you :)

Thank you for the kind words everyone! That's wonderful! Thank you for sharing the photo! I love knowing that something I've designed is now part of peoples' Christmases.

Really appreciate it @Hinckley!

Now I'm the first entry in the Expand the Winter Village Competition for this year! I'd asked @Rick about it before I started building and there wasn't a competition planned at the time, so he's very kindly accepted it as an entry. I've been following the competition for the past couple of years and was hoping to enter this year, and now I have! Can't wait to see what everyone builds!

Thanks everyone! It's a shame there's no contest this year, but I couldn't let that stop me! My issue now is that I'm running out of space to display it all haha. I'd really appreciate that! I've put the instructions up on eBay - searching 'Lego Chocolate Factory' should find them. :)

Although a Winter Village Contest doesn't seem to have popped up this year There is a Winter Village competition after all! I decided to spend my afternoon and evening today coming up with my attempt to expand the LEGO Winter Village. I'd been collecting pieces for this for a while, and it finally seemed time to sit down and do something with them! Earlier this year I got the one WV set I was missing (the Post Office), and had the realisation that if I want my Winter Village to keep growing by more than one set a year, I'd have to design some things myself! I've already built a Winter Village Church (https://www.flickr.com/photos/146006635@N03/albums/72157672738224763), now here's my second addition: a Winter Village Chocolate Factory. My goal with this was to make it as close to what an official Winter Village set might be, so I made sure to match it in scale and part count to the official sets, and include some supplementary builds with the hot cocoa van, the chocolate house sculpture, and the festive lights. There are also play features! The handle on the interior makes the Christmas wreaths rotate above the door outside. I've also included chocolate bars for sale on the shelves, mugs hanging behind the counter for hot cocoa, and even a chocolate fountain with marshmallows on sticks! And just like the official sets, it includes a light brick! In this case it lights up the boiler, used to melt the cauldron of chocolate pieces ready for the hot drinks! Just over a month ago I had a go at making some extra cars for the Winter Holiday Train (http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/142031-modmoc-expanding-the-10254-winter-holiday-train/#comment-2682886) and got some great responses to my Hot Cocoa Tanker. I like to imagine this van works for the same company, shuttling hot cocoa around the Winter Village! More images are available on my Flickr at https://www.flickr.com/photos/146006635@N03/albums/72157673365615964

Hey everyone, I'm pretty new to LDD but this is an issue I've never come across before. I've built a building in LDD, but when I go to generate the building instructions HTML, they're constructing the building from the top down (first the roof, then placing bricks underneath until it gets down to the baseplate). Does anyone have an idea what's causing this and how to fix it? Thanks!

Thank you! My girlfriend and I bought the Winter Village Post Office a few months ago, completing the Winter Village series for us, so we've decided we need to do lots of MOCs if we want it to keep growing. This raffle was a good justification/excuse to try one out, haha. If there is a Winter Village contest this year, I have lots more ideas :)

A snowy church