brickie

Thanks for the welcome and the tag. I hope Santa left you lego in your stocking.

Thanks for the comments. Mainly because they are based on a set in a polybag that came out a few years ago. They need to be large so that the wings can be built in. Also, the large size gives them a sense of majesty. I used the Spartans as Romans because someone has to conduct the census for Emperor Augustus.

Yes that's correct. They are a great way of getting up 5 bricks high without using a million bricks. They also provide a 'valley' at the rear of the display to partially hide the train as it goes down hill at the back.

Well done Brickton on making the headlines. The model is a brilliant piece of work.

Absolutely brilliant way of giving a message; well done.

I just saw a lovely model of The Nativity by snowspeeder pilot. I thought that I should share my attempt at The nativity. It is currently on display at a council library.

Thanks lightningtiger. I hope that you had a wonderful time and that Santa left lots of lego in your stocking.

Thank you for the kind words. Yes the one horse open sleigh is sitting on a slot car motor. I must confess now that it is not Lego but a cheap clone that has 'studs' on the top of the motor. I have thrown the cheap bricks away because they wouldn't stick together. The track almost follows the curve of lego road plates so it makes it easy to motorise lego cars. At the last BLTG show, we had all the 'cars 2' vehicles moving around the road of our town. http://www.bltg.org/index.html For the sleigh, I only needed one small oval of track so I cut the track in half. The horse has a [ very ] modified technic pin in its hoof to guide it round the track. I have modified the wiring so that you can't see them by soldering them underneath. The wires go back to a 9V train controller. You may notice 4 lots of movement in this short video.

The winter village sets are too lovely to be left on their own so I have attempted a winter village scene. Now I know I am going to be shot down in flames from the Europeans who experience this scene each year at Christmas, but my defence is that I live in a different part of the world and things are a bit different Down Under. Whilst Northern people are hoping for a white Christmas, down here we are feeling nature's fury over a large continent; cyclones in the north, hail storms in the south and bush fires in the west. But I have tried to represent a northern European scene. From above One of a few MOCs on this display is the church. It is essential to the core of a village. My grandkids and I have had a lot of fun building this.

Greetings from Down Under. 20 years ago I bought 12V trains for my kids and the lego habit grew from there. I enjoy building my own trains to entertain the children at model train shows in SE Queensland. For the past few years, I have been a member of the Brisbane Lego Train Group [ BLTG ].

This year, I have attempted to build a winter scene to incorporate the 4 lego sets of this theme. Of course the village needed a train so the modified Christmas Train was set to work to take Santa around the country. The loco has a headlight, 9V motor and a flashing firebox. The tender has coal, water and a fireman. Santa travels through the hills on his throne with a spot light on him at night. A turning snowman follows Santa around everywhere. It is party time for the elves as they travel in their own car with its own 9V motor and heaps of flashing lights. Christmas time is certainly a lot of fun for these villagers.

I have been building a winter village. When I got up this morning, I found that we had some SW visitors riding on the one-horse open sleigh. Poor old santa got such a fright that he took off and didn't leave any presents.

I was in Myer at Carindale yesterday at 10am and they had a large table in the Lego section covered in 'Atlantis' sets. There was a large sign that read, '$79'. The lady had to manually take off the MyerOne 10% which brought the price down to $71.10. There was 20% off all Lego [ except for that already on special ] - 10% for MyerOne card. There were a lot of very happy people with their arms filled with Lego.