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  1. JanetVanD
    Sounds like it will be warmer and drier than what we are getting in Ireland right now!
  2. JanetVanD
    110 for both Janet VanD & Son (yum yum!)
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    A fine piece of work, with excellent detail and a nice, smooth finish. At a quick glance, one might mistake it for the real thing! For this reason, I actually think it looks best as it is, without any minifigs.
  4. JanetVanD
    Thanks for all the positive feedback, it's very much appreciated!
  5. JanetVanD
    Thanks! By the way, you can get more photos by clicking on the Superman folder icon on the gallery page. (scroll down a bit and you'll see it!)
  6. JanetVanD
    Hello all, For my latest MOC I wanted to build something totally different from what I'd built before; both to confront new challenges and to avoid comparisons. (not to mention a serious depletion in bricks in a lot of key colours after my last build hugely limited my colour selection!) So this is my LEGO rendition of the Fortress of Solitude, based on its depiction in the original Superman movies. For anyone not too familiar with superhero lore, the Fortress of Solitude was created with a shard from the Planet Krypton and hidden in the remote Arctic.It's Superman's home-away-from-home. The model used 18,684 pieces, took 160 hours to build and was completed last week. To see more of this model and my other models, go to: Janet VanD's Gallery
  7. JanetVanD
    I love this! It's a good, solid piece with exacting attention to lots of detail, and yet it doesn't appear too busy, like some relatively small, highly-detailed model can do. The overall atmosphere feels both refreshing and serene. Well done.
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    It would have to be a "no" for me. In fact, I'd prefer less weaponry in the other themes too. (That doesn't stop me buying them, though!)
  9. JanetVanD
    I had the pleasure of seeing this excellent model as it was being built. There is really a lot in it, including neat angles, smooth working mechanisms, multi-coloured lighting and fun details to bring it all to life. Well done, Dfenz!
  10. JanetVanD
    I'm just back from Brick; loved it! What a fantastic bunch of people to share the fun and camaraderie with.
  11. JanetVanD
    Chalet 5 is O.K. with us. Sorry for not confirming this sooner; I was distracted with the Brick2015 event.
  12. JanetVanD
    Yes, just. His birthday is on the 7th of May. Since he and I are the "Lego buddies" of the household, this is his birthday present!
  13. JanetVanD
    Yes, we would need to share a chalet. My family member is a 12-year-old boy.
  14. JanetVanD
    Definitely count me in, plus one family member!
  15. JanetVanD
    Such a simple yet very effective design for the trees; I like them! Also the most unusual roof I've ever seen, but it works well on this model. Well done.
  16. JanetVanD
    A fun, quirky model with plenty of detail. Very nice colour scheme and great lighting effects at "night". I like it!
  17. JanetVanD
    Thanks, folks, for the huge compliments!! Sorry, I don't think instructions would be possible because I didn't use any digital design software and I really didn't do any pre-planning beyond scaling out the floorplan. As for contacting the theatre company, it seems a bit big-headed to say "hey, I've built this really cool model of your theatre, you should check it out!" It's a bit like tooting one's own horn, isn't it? (although I suppose it would be nice to see it in their foyer!)
  18. JanetVanD
    I will try to keep it intact for as long as possible although storage space is an issue ( my Lego room is only 9ft x 11ft) and a lot of parts are going to be tied up for a while. A lot of my previously-full brick boxes are nearly empty!!! I suppose it depends on potential exhibit venues.
  19. JanetVanD
    You're right, of course, about the chandelier; I seriously considered building one but since the chandelier doesn't feature in the scene on stage, I decided to leave it out.
  20. JanetVanD
    In answer to Xon67's questions, I had it in the back of my mind to build a theatre of some sort after having looked at an old wooden architech's model in the Victoria & Albert Museum years ago. Then I went to see The Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty's Theatre and loved it! During the intermission, I looked around the auditorium and thought "This is it!" So when I got home, I searched for pictures of the theatre and just got started. I will confess that about a third of the way through, when the detailing started to get really tricky, I started to have doubts about my own ability to build it as well as I had hoped to, and I worried that I had bitten off more than I could chew. This is where having supportive friends and family comes in, to give encouragement just when it is needed most. This has been primarily a one-person build,but "no man is an island" (or woman) so the above-mentioned moral support was very important. Also, since my daughter is extremely good at building minifigure characters, I gave her the job of creating the audience of hundreds of minifigures, which she managed to do without having any two figures alike! Finally, exhibiting this MOC will certainly not be a one-person job, since it will take at least two people to lift each section! (It comes apart into 5 sections for transport) That's a very clever way of dividing a window! I'll keep it in mind for the future. However, in the theatre, some of the interior can only be viewed by peering through the windows, so I needed to have a single, clear pane to allow as much visibility through it as possible.
  21. JanetVanD
    I can only say thanks once again for all this wonderful feedback; I truely didn't expect such a response! To answer a further question: Actually, all the gold pieces are genuine Lego parts. It took a lot of accumulating of sets with gold pieces as well as hours trawling through Bricklink. (any Bricklink seller who got his/her stock of pearl gold parts severely depleted can now see where it all went!)
  22. JanetVanD
    Thanks, everyone, for the fantastic, positive feedback! It means a lot to me and goes a long way towards making the hard work worthwhile. To answer a few questions: • I kept track of the piece-count by actually being obsessive enough to count each piece as I built and record it all on a tally card at each "sitting". (of course, I also had to subtract any bricks I took off if I changed or improved anything, which happened quite a lot!!) The counting became so automatic that I'm finding it hard to shake the habit, even when building a simple set. • No digital design tools were used; I'm nowhere near tech-savy enough to figure out those programmes! •The lighting is from a few strands of LED Christmas lights picked up during my local DIY store's after-Christmas sale. Cheap and easy to get, but it was difficult hiding the excess wire. Also, since the bulbs were just slightly too big to fit through a technic hole, it took a lot of manoeuvering to position the lights exactly the way I wanted them. On hindsight, I should have used something less bulky. • The second floor windows are not 100% purist, but as purist as I could get.In order to match the windows of the real-life theatre. I used 1x4x5 standard old windows and applied strips trimmed from official Lego sticker sheets to divide the panes. This was only done after several days of trialling all the purist possibilities I could think of, taking into consideration aesthetics and sturdiness. Thanks again, folks!
  23. JanetVanD
    I don't have the problem of bricks on the floor since I banned Lego from the children's rooms a few years ago. Now all Lego must stay in the designated Lego room and on tables or display areas. Do I sound like Lord Business? Well, at least nothing gets broken or lost and the children are still allowed to play with it, of course.
  24. JanetVanD
    I hope both stores stock up well with as many interesting parts as they can before lots of us descend on them during AFOLCon and Brick2015!
  25. JanetVanD
    These are the full pictures of the model I'll be exhibiting at Brick2015 next month. It's the brick-built version of the well-known Her Majesty's Theatre in London.On stage, the famous boat scene from the much-loved "The Phantom of the Opera" is being played, just as it is played every night in the real-life theatre. I started this build last December, so, after eleven months and 57,992 pieces later, here it is: For a full view of the detailed interior here's a link to my gallery: Janet VanD's Gallery
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