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    If building in detail, brick built is the way to go. That said, brick built is also cost prohibitive since you need a baseplate to build on, then a zillion bricks to pull it off. Curves are both easier (very customizable for different angles) and more difficult (getting them to line up well is very hard for me.) Kind of damned if you do, damned if you don't either way for Lego.
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    Currently working on converting my two Ferrari GT race cars over to the 8-wide using the 76895 as the base. The 8-wide's are big cars for sure but the level of detail is unmatched. Was very happy to see the C8 and the Ford GT make the 8-wide upgrade so I'll picking those up. Thank you for the reviews!
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    Thank you! If I had room for that, absolutely. I'd rebuild the Autodrome de Linas-Montlhery. Sadly, I'm at the limit of the space I have to work with. I have a "long track" version drawn out that is based on that particular circuit, but alas, the space needed to build it to my standard, not to mention the cost, prohibit such an expansive project.
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    New Potato Photo's for your viewing... If you can see past the shaky hand... LOL. New Police Station nestled in next to the Diner. This was done so you could actually see the billboard. It's also nice that it's on the same street as the Soap & Suds. Shot down the back straight. Green Grocer moved inside, new barrier installed along with catch fence on the inside. Porsche is using all of the track and some curb on exit of T3... New placement of the Pet Shop/Brown Stone next to Town Hall. I wanted the Police Station to go here but the Town Hall is so big it just wouldn't work and still see the billboard for the laundry. Care Center moved outside of T6. This freed up room on the inside of the track, got the Care Center away from morbid gawkers and will give a little more room for personnel and the safety truck to park since I can park the ambulance in it's space in front of the ER doors.
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    My initial plan was to move Market Street and put the Police Station next to the Town Hall. That made the most sense but when I did it, the advertisement for the Soap & Suds was completely lost. So, scratch that. Then I thought, maybe next to the diner? With that stairway on the side it would allow for good visibility and it's on the same street in my setup as the laundry. So I moved Birch Books over next to Town Hall and put the Police Station next to the Diner... No good. Birch Books looked terrible next to Town Hall and it didn't make sense. I finally wound up swapping the Pet Shop/Bown Stone over next to Town Hall, put the Police Station next to the Diner and slid Birch Books down. This is a neighborhood precinct to me, so placing it in with other buildings doesn't seem out of whack. Potato Photo's
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    This is true. I have had the unfortunate experience of having the USPS lose something important on me before, so I'm a bit jaded. Hopefully everyone can get their sets in a timely fashion or make it to a store to get one in person. I had to make room on my track for the new Police Station so Green Grover got moved to the inside and the Police Station will take up residence right next to Town Hall. I'll see how that looks and decide on placement from there. Wife has to finish the Stranger Things Upside Down so I have the kitchen table to build on
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    Went down to the Lego Store this morning. Opened at 10AM, got there at 10:30AM, line was 20 people deep to get in... Got the last one on the shelf. Until they went in the back and brought out 4 more... Haha. I actually asked the guy if they had any more and he said, "sure do." OK cool, I'm not getting the last one. I was worried because I saw at least 3 people in front of me walk out with the Police Station. The car is really cool. Very clever. I had no intention of ordering it from the website. For how many problems USPS, FedEx and UPS are having right now, I wasn't gambling on it getting lost. Already have at least one package that's over a week late.
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    Small update... The boys looking over the car while the drivers discuss who's going to take it for a spin once the Sports Cars are done on track. To the right, the head honcho is chatting with some wealthy patrons... Can see one of the two new pit tool boxes I made. Decent shot looking over the garages and media center toward T4/5. You can see the new pit lights I added on the front and might be able to make out the small pedestrian lighting on the back. The Porsche Club Grandstand on the end of the garages approaches final completion. Crews are busy adding some finishing touches but it is open for spectators during work. Gilles Villeneuve's Ferrari on display at the Corner Garage. Potato picture of basically the whole track... This picture sucks. My phone is old... Haha. Further revisions to the pit exit. Safety Car (green) and Medical Car (white) now parked so they can both get onto the track when needed by exiting from the inside of the track instead of the outside of a corner. There's still a ton to do to it. I have to finish all the walkways and parking area's with tiles, build another tow truck, rebuild the T6 crane, build another ambulance and clean up the one I do have, built A LOT more race cars (the F1/Indycar style), get more spectators, replace that lousy T1/T2 gravel trap with all round 1x1's so it actually looks right, build all the pit equipment, etc. Little by little. I mean it'll never be done for sure but it's plugging along.
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    I'm glad you brought this up actually. I just picked up the 8 wide Ferrari F8. While I really like the additional details available with the 8-wide, when you factor in the small fender flares and the mirrors it's really like a 9-10 wide. For what I had intended the set for, it's not going to fly. I had built an 8 wide open-wheel race car and built brick-built roads to accommodate that width. However, the 8-wide official sets just seem too large even for those (roads came out to 22 stud wide actually surface.) It's definitely a balance. The 6-wide work better if you're going for town layouts. 8-wide if building purely for aesthetics or if there is no intention to add the cars to a cityscape. If they can be held down to actually 8-studs wide then they can work, but the additional little details push them over the edge a tad. Interested to hear others thoughts and what they've come up with. 8-Wide vs 6-Wide...
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    I'll definitely get this. I was apprehensive about a police station because I didn't think it would really fit in with the rest of them but this is quite nice. It's not obtrusive at all. Hardest part is going to be figuring out where to put it... I might move the Pet Shop/Bown Stone and put it there next to Birch Books and The Detective Agency...
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    Sweet! Thank you! That's exactly what I modeled it after. Baseplates showed up today so I can lay out the pit extension. Built a new medical center too. It's a pain to reach but I like where I tucked it in. There are two stretchers, waiting room, doctors, etc. inside. The doors on the right are for the ambulance to back in. They both swing open into the inside so the stretcher can be unloaded without photographers prying eyes. The doors also open individually should a driver require being seen but is not otherwise incapacitated. Those were a pain to build and get to work right. I had hinges top and bottom, but the doors jammed as you closed or opened them. Instead, I had to build them like the front doors on the theatre. Somehow, that far more complicated way of doing it allows them to function perfectly. I will get pictures of that when I get a chance.
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    Update will coming within the next week or so. I decided that I didn't like the pit exit so I extended the track table 8" to build a dedicated pit exit road. Going to brick built roads made moving the entire T1/T2 complex a whole lot easier.
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    I received the book shop I ordered back in May last week. Hopefully get to build it this weekend
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    Orders made back in May are now slated to ship the last week of July, or so says the latest email I got from Lego. Must be having a lot of issues getting manufacturing back up and running.
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    That is perfect. Really good work!
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    Saw the bookstore was on backorder and put my order in. Won't ship for 2 months but at least I have my place in line.
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    Add 10270 to the list of "Out of Stock."
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    Thank you! Funny you say that, I have some left over "brick" pieces.
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    ^ Shot looking down into the newly rebuilt "Goodyear Media Center" located atop the pit garages. There are two TV broadcast rooms (or one TV room and a Pit Steward room) overlooking the pit lane with a large room behind that for the print reporters and media gatherings. ^ Shot from the front... Clearly. ^ And a shot from the back showing the access road to the rear garage entries along with the stairs and crossover for the TV and Media credentialed to access the media center. My wife doesn't care for the blue roof and thinks it should be grey to better go along with the garage roof. I'm undecided. On one hand I can see her point, on the other there's something that I like about the blue roof. What say you Eurobricks?
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    New pit garages built. All doors slide on a track, roofs are removable for each garage to access inside. Still need some finishing touches but we're getting there. The rail you can barely see on the front will be for the names of the teams in those particular garages. An eye-level view from the middle rows of the Turn 1 grandstands. View of the back of the garages where you can see the access road for the rear doors. The media center/care center on the right (with the goodyear logo) has been removed. The media center is now atop the garage at the pit exit end complete with broadcast center (with announcers) and a larger media room behind it. A stairway and crossover to the roof has yet to be built but I think I have the parts for it, just need to build it.
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    Good work! I really like the pit/paddock area. I just ordered the parts a couple of days ago to build the garage area for my track. Keep it up!
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    Sorry about some of the image quality, my phone doesn't take great pictures. ^ Overall shot of the layout. Catch fences are up, trees are in, marshall posts are manned and there are some cars on pit road being worked on. ^ Cinema Corner. Raised the grandstands to the left and modified the Marlboro crossover bridge so it didn't block the road. ^ Oh, what's this? A gentleman has parked his 250GTO right in front of the restaurant... Seems appropriate. ^ Just another overall shot from the opposite end of the course. The baseplates you see that don't seem to belong there are just to see if I had the space I thought I did. They will also serve as the base plates for the pit/paddock area once I figure out how I want to build it. ^ This is the modified crossover bridge mentioned earlier. ^ One last overall shot from the last corner.
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    Absolutely OUTSTANDING!
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    Told y'all it wouldn't be two years... Haha. On with the pics! OK, this is what it looks like when you first walk in the room... This is the revised Turn 1/2/Pit Exit. I changed the sand trap to be more sandy, but I still need about 4-5000 more round 1x1's to make it really look right. Shot from T4/T5 up the back straight. Thinking of changing the Marboro bridge stairs on the left so they're not in the road. Someone asked before how I did the curve. This is how I did it. It's certainly not 100% perfect, but it's not bad. Basically I had to build a frame to hold the end points of the curve and let tension do the rest of the job of keeping it in place. Start/Finish line. Checkerboard is built right into the track with bricks like everything else. Scuderia Ferrari mulling over the car in the pits. Shot from T1 back up the front straight/pit road. Pit buildings need to be built still (along with a ton of other stuff.) Shot from T6 down to T5. Basement on the right is for the Corner Garage that is yet to be built and the open space on the left is for the new Book Store Modular. Race cars, safety crews, ambulance, medical car, pit garages, catch fence, landscaping, still needed, but it's much closer than it was. Will continue to update and I go along. I have a ton of parts and some idea's for things I want to change (like the drains in T1, move them from the outside of the corner to the inside) so that'll get updated as we go. This, I think, looks great, but it is EXTREMELY part intensive. There is a small fortune in the just the track surface along with thousands of parts. Each 10x10 piece of track has some like 92 or so parts. All told, the track surface alone is something on the order of 3100+ parts, that excludes the sidewalks, barriers, etc. Let me know what you think and it there are any questions I can answer!
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    Haha, I won't wait two years. I ordered what I think is all the parts I need to finish the track surface/pits. Once those are in, then I will build out the rest of it with what I had previously (walls, catch fence, grandstands, etc.) Eventually, I plan to also install traffic lights, etc. to really make it look the part. WAY down the road I'll see about installing lighting for the houses, etc. I have to rebuild most of the support vehicles (ambulance, tow trucks, safety trucks, etc.) to a wider format (current 4 wide or 4/6 wide) to better match the race cars. You can't see it, but there's a pretty old City TV Helicopter tied to the ceiling fan controls above the table. I've had some personal stuff come up in the last few weeks but hopefully that will take care of itself after this weekend and I can take some time to get the track surface built. I did manage to get the Downtown Diner built and put in place. I need to detail the race car too since I think that's a pretty clever design. Anyway, thank you for your interest!
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