dlmorgan999

Ooooo!

That's a nice selection. I don't think I've ever seen the 1x1 (medium?) blue tiles on the wall.

Wow! Very impressive haul!!

Where I live, we are not yet allowed to fill our own cups at all.

Yup. Back when we were allowed to stack them ourselves, I got 400 1x3 bricks in a large cup.

I just threw them in the cup and compacted them a time or two.

I just did a quick test and got 289 1x3 bricks in a cup. That was without the lid. So 300 seems reasonable - maybe a few more.

For what it's worth, you can still get light/dark bluish grey, tan, white, and a couple of other color 32x32 baseplates from Bricks & Pieces. They are all in stock at the time I'm posting this.

I'll be there tomorrow to grab the new modular. I'll check, but when I got mine, the bin was almost empty.

My store (Tigard, OR) has mostly had refills lately, but I went in a couple of days ago and found 1x2 Light Bluish Gray jumpers. They've had black and white jumpers on the wall a few times, but I had not seen this color before.

Thanks! I wasn't sure how they would look but decided to give them try. I'm pretty happy with the result.

I'm relatively new to LEGO (been doing it for a bit over a year) and was starting to think about doing a MOC that needs some castle like elements. I have zero experience with castles, so I did some searching on Eurobricks and found this thread. As many others have said, it's fantastic and so helpful. Thanks for posting all these tutorials! Also, I've wanted for a while to come up with a good photo backdrop, but most of the MOCs I've done so far are pretty large (64 - 128 studs wide) so a typical light box won't really work. Your idea of using the Ikea blind really appeals to me. It's durable and large, and I happen to live near an Ikea.

Will do. Here is a building I recently finished that uses 12 of those, plus a LOT of 1x2x3 windows. I'm still doing a few finishing touches to it, and then I'll post more photos in a separate thread (in the LEGO Town section?).

I don't have any immediate plans, but these are fairly expensive on BrickLink and I like to do things with lots of glass so I grabbed a bunch. It didn't help that I saw a video on YouTube where someone used 96 of these in a fairly small space. That made me realize that I wanted to have lots more than I already had.

I picked up ~150 of those over the last few weeks. They are a bit of a pain to pack efficiently, but if you put two of them back to back, fill the insides, and secure them with 2x6 plates, it works pretty well. I was consistently able to get 30 of them in a large cup.