The Neighborhood Merchant

Yeah, haven't seen too many BoBS schools so thought I'd give it a shot. Glad you liked it, and thank you greatly for the wonderful words, GR!

Thank you, Ayrlego, that means a lot! I love giving everything interiors and I'm happy to hear everyone enjoyed the look of it! I'm a complete nut over the old bricks, and it's wonderful to see other people are too! Thank you, Merc! Now that I look back at the pictures, I do realize how small it looks from them, haha. Glad you enjoyed it and thanks again for the very kind words! Haha, let's hope he'll be able to recover! Also, you are definitely correct with the cutlasses. Maybe I need to go back to this school... Thank you so much for your beautiful words though, Dee! And when I was looking to get the windows, I was a bit worried about the mad-man, who's currently reincarnating a Great Ball, who's crashing through the brick-market.

Wow, that's beautiful! Love the use of the printed corners with the cheese slopes and the wedges. It really creates some wonderful stonework! Very nice landscaping (as always), and wonderful minifigures! Also really like the wagon with the sacks in it. To add, those sheep once again look amazing! Great build, Wolf!

Great to hear that you like it, Thaum! Thanks! Thanks for the kind words, Wellesley! Glad you liked the story! Thanks, Kai! I'm really glad everyone likes the windows as much as I do! Definitely! They keep stealing all my merchant torsos and small legs. These troublemakers need to calm down or else we'll be at war with them too! Thanks for the compliments, Wolf! I'm very happy that everyone enjoyed it! Also, glad you liked the posing! The worker holding the books constantly feel down and would domino effect every minifigure so I'm glad that experience wasn't in vain! Thank you for the wonderful words, Deraven! Glad you liked the layout, as I was unsure how it would turn out. Always love using the old classic bricks, and it's nice to see that everyone else likes to see them! Also happy to see someone else's gratitude for the cypress trees, I love those things!

As the settlement of Fuerte Unido remains successful and civilized, the populous settlement is just finishing laying it's last coat of paint down for it's newest primary school, "Nautical One." Settlers are making sure to come as well dressed as possible for the grand opening in which a battle wounded Eslandolian naval gunner tells his story of unfortunate and fortunate findings alike. backup 2 by The Neighborhood Merchant, on Flickr right side by The Neighborhood Merchant, on Flickr shed 2 by The Neighborhood Merchant, on Flickr One of the workers preparing for his last cleanup for the day. back by The Neighborhood Merchant, on Flickr Here's to the last coat of paint. Cheers! worker by The Neighborhood Merchant, on Flickr Anyone know a chiropractor? This poor man is definitely going to need one... cards by The Neighborhood Merchant, on Flickr Meanwhile, looks like some people need reminding of their job. Stop gambling in front of the kids! right side 2 by The Neighborhood Merchant, on Flickr main room by The Neighborhood Merchant, on Flickr During this scene, the naval gunner explains how he managed to weave in-between four cutlass slices at once! Of course the teacher couldn't help but throw in 2+2=4 equation after hearing that... play 1 by The Neighborhood Merchant, on Flickr Meanwhile, the older kids get to reinact the famous battle of Don Brickoxte vs the "Giants"! play 2 by The Neighborhood Merchant, on Flickr scene by The Neighborhood Merchant, on Flickr Little Edward as always, is getting in to the parents' food. top 2 by The Neighborhood Merchant, on Flickr top 3 by The Neighborhood Merchant, on Flickr It's always nice to have a little peace in your own quarters after a long day of work! end 1 by The Neighborhood Merchant, on Flickr After the long heroic story of the sailor, everyone is ready to go home. minifis by The Neighborhood Merchant, on Flickr What a wonderful class! Seriously though... somebody needs to get a chiropractor to come over here. It is simply unhealthy for that man to still be carrying those books! end 2 by The Neighborhood Merchant, on Flickr Thank you, everyone, for viewing my build! To anyone who was wondering, all stickers and bricks are official lego. The stickers are from an idea book from 1980 and the cast is made from white blank stickers. The bottom floor windows and backside top window are from the Lego Italian Minitalia series, and I got tons of enjoyment working with them! Hope you enjoyed the build! Here are a few more playfeatures/photos for anyone interested:

Instant nostalgia. Love the design and the minifigures! The spikes for the raft is a very nice concept. Amazing build! I think I'm back in the dreamworld, Mr. Phez...

That's some fine rigging there! Say...my frigate has yet to be properly rigged...how much do you charge per hour? Jokes aside, another masterpiece, Wellesley! Your rigging, sails, and hull curvature always shocks me, and I enjoy every second of admiring your work! Have you ever referenced or made a tutorial as to how you go about your sails? Haven't really found how to properly make them yet, and yours are some of the best I've seen.

Fantastic build! Absolutely love the ship and the whole idea/layout of the place. Nice rock-work and very slick hut!

Is...this a dream?

Lovely ship! Love the angles for the back, and the rigging and sails are absolutely stunning! Creations like this remind me about how no matter how limited the brick supply is, there is always beautiful things you can create!

As far as my knowledge goes, small scale non-molded instruments are quite difficult to make if not unrealistic with our current part list. However, there are a lot of geniuses on this form and I'm sure someone here can do it. I took a shot at it to see if I could help, but it's far from perfect. Since it is such a small instrument, I wasn't able to add much curvature. The 3L bar is far too long for the thin part, so I used a cut hose (luckily a legal technique) to get the optimal length on that. The main bulk of the body is what I struggled with. Anyhow, here's how it came out: 3 part by The Neighborhood Merchant, on Flickr Left most is more "detailed" but a bigger model using 2L cut hose. Middle is the same as the left but with 3L bar. I just added this just incase you took interest in making it a different stringed instrument. Rightmost has minimal addons, making it actually very proportionate, but still not very detailed. If anyone else wants to take a shot at this, here's my other part palette for some inspiration Time flies when you're a newbie. This took me 2 hours.

Every update you add un-hinges my jaw a little more. Absolutely love that you're bringing this back and simply cannot wait to see what else you have planned! Also, we'll have to keep a close eye on Kolonialbeamter. If his conspiracy theories get around town gossip, no one will attend! Or...mabye...that's his plan! What else are you hiding from us Beamter?!?!

Thanks for the link, Evans. I contacted them and it seems they plan to add the stickers to their stock in half a year or so. This is fine with me, so I consider my problem solved. However, if anyone else had this problem, and knows of an easy glue-removing chemical and or another fix, feel free to add it on to help anyone else out who stumbles across this post. Thanks again, everyone. You've been extremely helpful!

I was thinking of using an x-acto blade and a damp q-tip to carefully chip at the glue till it all was removed, but perhaps that isn't the most viable solution. Unless anyone has an easy way of knowing how to reproduce these without the sticker sheet or something of the like, I may just have to redesign to tower in tan to semi-match the color. Thanks for the intricate response, appreciate it!

Thanks for the suggestion! Seems like this may be the only thing to do, as I need this to match a white wall so I'm trying to go for as pure white as possible. Anyone have any suggestions on any easy way, or perhaps a site to recreate the stickers? Wow, thanks for the advice! I actually don't own these, I just took a picture of one I was interested in. Interesting idea with the reproductions. Is there a site I possibly out there that is currently remaking these? Thank you for the message, Thorsten! I agree that they look excellent and have a very nice appeal! Sadly, I was hoping to use them for a white clock or something of the like, which makes the yellowing difficult to overcome. I do have a few darkened stickers, so that suggestion will definitely come in handy, thanks! I was wondering, perhaps I could remove the aged glue, and since I have an adhesive blank sticker sheet, I could use that to reapply the stickers. Mabye this would help? Any thoughts/suggestions? Thanks everyone for the messages, it means a lot to see the quick responses!

Hey fellas! I've been interested for some time now in using some stickered pieces from a set. Problem is that the set is older (70s) and I always find the attached stickers to be yellowed. Is there any way to minimalize, if not eradicate the yellowing on them? Here's the pieces I'm looking at: s-l1600 by The Neighborhood Merchant, on Flickr

Nice! Thanks for picking them up for us! I'll go ahead and PM you.

Nice one, Blackbird! Love the angles and the bricks used to produce them. I haven't seen many builds with the stickered white panels, and I have to say that they are used excellently here! Always a pleasure to see what you cook up, and looking forward to your next work! Anyone got any plane tickets to Billund, Denmark? I've waited long enough for these bricks, so it's time to take action and protest at Lego's headquarters. Time to get started on those protest signs...

Anyone else know of neat custom molds that'd work well with BoBS builds or just general MOCs? I think I saw some filled glasses of ale before in one of @Darnok's builds. I'm by no means a purist and just want things to look unique, so I'm up for anything!

Another wonderful build for Salida Este! You did an excellent job of the minifigures and the fountain! It gives it more motion and story. Also, how'd you build the palm trees? Love the way they look!

Wow, that's some amazing landscaping and rockwork! Wonderful scene too! Good to hear Spudkirk is getting it's defenses heightened. Hopefully the raids will end after that!

Must...resist...temptation... I need to...go eat a meal...consisting of chicken, t-bone steaks, and loster...just, uh- coincidence. yeah... Gorgeous chandeliers, by the way. Love them!

Beautiful street and lamp posts! Love the use of the new-ish candle piece! Like all the previous parts of Captain Argentum's adventures, your techniques are always spectacular and completely original. Love it, and can't wait to see more! Great work, Kai!

Sure! Here's the torso ID: 973pb0161c01 I got both the cape and the torso from hp028. Really nice pieces for BoBS mocs!

What an excellent idea it was to bring this back! Thank you, Dee, for holding this fantastic event again . My sigfig, Arthur Williams, would love to attend as he's still waiting for his ship repairs and is quite bored. My sigfig is actually my profile picture. I hope that's fancy enough! If you can't include my sigfig due to his more expensive pieces or for other reasons, that's completely fine! I just look forward to seeing this again, as Bregir's was a great read.