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Good work, Basiliscus - as mentioned, I really like the wardrobe and especially the shoes! I confess to being the person depicted in this vignette - the coat hanger is the latest on a long series of seemingly harmless household objects to injure me! The weird thing is that this scene is almost exactly as it happened, from the furniture placement to my bad 'rock hair', it's quite uncanny. I genuinely laughed out loud when I saw it and it cheered me up, so thanks

Thanks for your comments, Eilif. Any criticism is good criticism Your buildings in the seaside scene are all quite regularised - having a similar footprint and with the frontage all in line. I've been thinking about changing the yellow building to make it georgian and having the fronts all aligned along the street. This should give it a more homogonised feel and also give me the opportunity to build more shops and get rid of one of the garages. Incodently, the yellow building has changed a lot from the one on brickshelf but I agree with you - it is a little bland! I'll have to brush up on my greebles skill!!!

Looks like us Apple users will have to go out and buy a bunch of 'electronic Lego' and stick it together to play!!! There's no reason why it can't run on a newish Apple under bootcamp, running Vista, though. Anyway, it looks great from what I've seen and I hope it includes the humor or the Lego console games. It'll be interesting to see how you interact with others and the limits of building... for example could you build a spaceship and fly off in to the ether?! I don't think a subscription would be a big turn off though, but it depends upon the game - a trial would be really useful to see what you're paying for.

Hi Eilif. I really like the seafront look but appreciate what was said about the balustrade... you don't want to be liable for any Lego tombstoning!! As for further shops, how about one of those seaside 'gift' shops - with the postcards on a stand outside and inflatable things tied up outside. You could use sharks and croc's as li-lo's along with dingy's and paddles etc. Fill it full of dissapointing, shell-based gifts and you're away!!!

I prefer 'borrowed' !! The police station, whilst providing most of the white bricks, has a good toilet and coffee machine in it and it seemed a shame to break them up and put them in to 'Lego storage'.... I just stuck them straight in!!!! I did, however, make the cistern 'from new'. (although it turned our very similar to the 'official' cistern - if there's such a thing!!)

Hello, fellow Eber's! I thought you may be interested to see some of the new additions to my cupboard street... Due to the lack of space and bricks, I've confined my Lego street to a shelf in my living room cupboard/display case, so the buildings here are confined by their size. Unfortunately B & Q made an error when designing my cupboard leaving the shelves 95 studs wide This is a problem when trying to build the structures on a 'thin' baseplate so i've had to suspend the house on a raft of 'thick' baseplates making it look weird. Anyway, enough of the excuses First up is the terraced house. - I've tried to build a house that can be built in multiples to create a terrace. I'd love to build Arkwright's shop from 'open all hours' and had this in my mind when building. Inside I've built usual home stuff and I'm very pleased with the 70's inspired bathroom - It's like going to visit your Nan!!! Due to the space and my constant fiddling, these buildings are altered a lot. Since the pictures, I've raised the ground floor windows up by one brick and swapped the burgandy cills for black ones (to make it look less than the creator house it's made from!!). terraced house Next up is a semi-Georgian ( )building. To get some variety in the street i've built a costume shop at the bottom, with a separate entrance up to an accessory shop on the first floor and a bar / pub (bar was easier to write on the sign!!) at the top. Initially it was really made to house my minifigs and their accessories that weren't normally out on display but I thought I'd have a bit of fun with a bar. At first I tried to break up the 'building line' of the street by seting back the shop on the ground floor but switched to Georgian on the first so it looks a bit messy and therfore not out of keeping with my British street!! You'll notice that the stairs are rubbish and I'm thinking of rebuilding to flatten the building line and incorperate 'dummy' georgian windows to house the skelie etc. but still give the sense of Georgian symmetry. - currently it's not symmetrical enough. I'm at the absolute limit of baseplates so the pub carpet has to be red. I've also left the backs of the buildings off to allow some light in to them giving a warmer feel to the whole display.I'd like to hear peoples experiences with lighting their buildings, especially with leaving them on for several hours at a time.. I've only got the old, origonal lighting bricks but can easilly get LED's or similar. The accessory shop has a rather stern shop assistant who works 'in the cage'. This area is where you have to buy the more dangerous objects in the street. (spot who just bought some Indy!!) costume shop on Eurobricks I made the building whilst having discussions with forum member Ralph S on his threads, the influence is obvious in the many of the features - especially the sign which is my first attempt at Lego writing!!. Both of Ralph S and myself seem to be making similar things at the same time via E.B-E.S.P... I saw his thread on his excellent pub just before I put my pics up to Bricklink - spooky!!! Unlike Ralph's, my bar doesn't sell lager and only has cask ales - goodness knows how they get the barrels up the steps I'm experimenting with the order of the buildings and have a space for a further shop but no bricks to build it with The yellow building in the background of some of the pictures is my new mayoral office. I've built it whilst talking to forum member Basiliscus and it has a story so I'll post that later - (I've also noticed that I forgot to take pics of it..duh!) For those (still ) interested, here's my Brickshelf gallery ! I look forward to reading your comments and suggestions.

That is awesome - what a beautiful modernist building. You've done a really good job of photographing it as well. I really like the open plan and uncluttered feel to it - it looks weird to modern eyes not to have a place for the t.v and other clutter!!(it was the 20's). - I wish I could live like that now I think you've really got the feel of a modernist building with the small amount of internal objects and minifigs, it's something the architect would have imagined. Modernism is all about shadows and regularity and not 'cottage style clutter' - Long live the Bauhaus legacy! I wonder if Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris' clients would have accepted the architectural model being made of Lego?!!

Hi, Ralph. Please don't think of my previous comments regarding the height of the building to be a criticism.. your constructions are of such a high standard that it's only possible to mention very minor things I was trying to point out (in my usual incoherent way!) that that style of building relied on it's repetition over several floors to achieve the final result. As a fellow town builder I've made a similar building that looked weird until a further section was added, making it 2 stories high - it made a big difference to the overall look. Your's worked just as well with a single storey above and actually reminded me of Arkwrights shop in 'open all hours' - something I've been meaning to build for a long time!! You've mentioned the colour being a bit 'plain' but I think that adds to the overall feel of the building - most of these type of buildings were rendered and painted with the window and door detail used to give a 'shadow line'. They tended to paint the whole thing a plain colour which gives emphasis to the detailing (like black gates and planting for a residential property and shop front for a commercial). I think you've captured the look of small town Britain well in your picture and it reminds me of Guildford - where the spread of London has just about reached the town and bigger Georgian buildings were being constructed.......and you've the black cabs and busses! I hope I'm not rambling too much about details but I understand that you're going for high accuracy in your street (also see my first line!!). o/t looking at your comments on flickr, it seems that the U.K. is the only place that has carpet in it's pubs, surley this can't be true !!!

Hi, Ralph. Thats another excellent building you have there. I really like the detailing you have added both internally and externally - the bus shelter and little sign board on the pavement give it a real town feel!. The way you've made the bays in very interesting and I like the brickwork detailing vertically between the windows, where you have inset the panels. It gives a good Georgian / Victorian feel to the buildings. They look far better at 3 stories as the repeated symmetry of the upper floors is a lot more apparent, as so loved by the architects of that era. I notice that the pictures of it with the pub are now on flickr and together, the 2 buildings really give the impression of a british high street - all you need now are some tasteless, generic shops to complete the scene!

Hi, Joey. I've recently started a very small city and have bought a few sets to get going - like you I'm not too experienced in the ways of Ebay. I've bid on a few bulk things but have been 'gazumped' at the last second which is irritating so I've bought new sets. I'd recommend getting something thats mainly in an 'old' colour like yellow, white etc. and avoid tan and grey so that if you do get some bulk bricks you're more likely to get bricks in colours that match. (although it's really handy to have some new colours for detailing but these can be bought later, if required). Depending upon what you already have, I reckon it's a good idea to get some windows in a set. The choice of set then depends upon how you want your first few buildings to look - if you want commercial shops etc then the big windows in the 7744 police station (for example) give a nice modern feel. These windows don't work too well for houses so a set with the smaller, shuttered type would be more suitable if you want residential. I've bought the 7993 service station and feel it is 'mostly air'!. There's not much substance to the thing and I reckon the red window frames look 'cheeper' than the white or black ones (it may just be my particular ones, though). I'd recommend getting the beech house for the early stages of your city in conjnction with one of the sets mentioned before. It has plenty of sloping bricks for roofs and a handy roof window, It's also only £20 and has a chicken leg too! I've still got my Lego 'L' plates on so the more experienced people will probably correct me on a few things but I highly recommend looking back a few months in this forum to see other peoples cities to see what they've been up to!

I meant to reply to this over the weekend having seen the Finnish entry in the eurovision song contest!! Good work with the band... The instruments are well done and best of all, 'Graveyard' Guitarrista is a leftie player-cool!! You seem to have refugees from Metallica and Slipknot on the guitars - that'll be an awesome gig!! (Princess Leia seems to be very excited about it!)

That would mean your shields were down... is this a wise way to construct Lego Seriously, though. Good luck to you and Hinckley with your displays...It's a big step up from building in your living room and must be quite unsettling the first few times.

Hi, Ralph. Yes, the link is my (now initial ) version of a chip shop... I'll start a seperate topic on mine once there amended to avoid my embarrisment!! As goes a pub...there have been several good pubs shown on here recently, Hinkleys' and highlandcattles' both spring to mind but there must be a quite a few for inspiration - all with (no doubt) whitty names! A pirate theme would be brilliant with barrels and tons of brown. On a similar note, a costume shop would be a fun thing to add to your street-you could display all of your minifigs with blank faces. Having seen your flickr properly, I'm really enjoying the detail- the kitchen is inspired with the sink and cooker! The raw and cooked burgers are great too and I hope you've colour coded your pies, chip shop style, yellow for chicken and red for mince (from what I remember!). As a further bit of weirdness... looks just like my local kebabulance driver/chef!! @ WhiteHexagon, I'm sure someone could post you some chips-I can't say what state they'll arrive in, though

Hi, Ralph, Thats a great looking chippie there, so many internal and external details, especially the burger sign outside!. The 2 buildings really work well together with the differences in ridge height giving the sort of jumbled up British high street feel. Due to some strange space-time-continuum-Lego-ESP, I'm building my own British street at the moment and coincidentally I uploaded my own chippie to brickshelf last night - I'm now going to have to alter it as it's not a patch on this, though!! I had some success by using the shark form the pirate sets with three yellow 4x1 flat tiles (as chips) to produce a sign - this may work well on your shop. Your street definatley seems the place to go after a night out, have you thought about a pub and a kebabulance (an old ambulance converted to a kebab shop)!!! I look forward to seeing more of your buildings, thanks for sharing.

Thats a great addition to your street, Holodoc! I like the way you've used the pllars at first floor level to set the windows back and the lion heads work really well too. You've done a great job of the inside.. you notice different bits of detail each time you look at it - I really like the way the toilet paper is thrown down beside the toilet!! You've coped well with getting the roofline down far enough to let some light in to the apartment on top of market street, I haven't got market street but I imagine the apartment can cause problems with neighbouring roofs. Just out of interest, did you have any problems with fitting the big window pieces in place? I've found that the moulding on some of them to be bad and they wouldn't sit correctly.

I've really enjoyed your pictures, Vadim. Thats a great truck you have there - the SNOT on the front really works - i didn't realise you could use the sloping bricks so well that way round. I've got a big thing with Russian trucks - I think their design is iconic and as interesting as that of the US trucks of a similar age that are more commonly shown. Being a forum from all around the world, it's really interesting to see each persons take on a model depending upon their country of residence -for both buildings and vehicles. How have you made the load carrying area - specifically the 'studs out' side pieces? - I'm thinking of making something similar and I wondered if your one has hinged flaps. I look forward to seeing more of your constructions.

I'm sure, general Zen, that the AFOL thought you were going to reprimand him for taking all of the indiana jones sets before you got your hands on them!!!- I think as you age you become more impervious to comments... I doubt he would be crying in to his beer that evening-he's too much Lego to build When I first started buying sets again, I always lied to to the shop assistant saying it was for a child but I've 'come out' now!!!. This was especially in Woolworths where I would say that I've got a big job ahead assembling for a (fictional) child. I had my first trip to a Lego store last week - i took a day off work for it. When I went in, I felt like a teenager buying contraceptives and was embarrassed to speak to the female assistant (as she was attractive!!- i assumed the male one would understand!). Luckily the shop had 3 other customers, all of whom were older than me (I'm 34) with one actually playing with the UCS falcon having had the glass top removed for him!! I felt much less paranoid at that point. I ended up with a massive Lego bag wandering through milton keynes with a huge smile on my face - I don't really care what people thought of me then but I was worried about the police pulling me over and seeing it on the rear seats!!!! I've also had a long conversation in Asda (Wal-mart) with an 8 ish year old child about their lack of quality stock - goodness only knows what the parents thought!. All of my friends now know I love the Lego so birthdays are a real treat.

As with the other posters, I like the use of colours etc but what is going on with that little 4x4 and trailer!? When I first saw it it I thought the tiny wheels were just 'place holders' for larger ones in the preliminary pictures but it seems they've found their way in to the production model. Does it look weird in real life, Dr S?

Hi, Badsneaker I like the vehicles.. The SWAT team look suitably menacing and the recycle truck is really sturdy looking. Good roof on the SWAT truck, it has plenty going on and the section over the cab fits in neatly. You seem to have integrated them in to a city well - I've had trouble getting 8 wide vehicles to work as they're too wide for the road markins on baseplates, but this seems to help in the case of a SWAT team (for maximum menacing power!!). Did you take the pic of the real SWAT team from your window..if so what have you been up to??!!

Cars have got to have doors-i've never favored the 'Dukes of Hazard' approach!! I'm not sure why TLC stopped using them - There's been several topics on here showing very early vehicles with doors.

I've enjoyed this season so far, too. When the plastic sheet covered up Heike's car I had a nasty 'Senna' thought. It's amazing to see he survived with so little injury... the coverage I saw said he must have pulled 100 g's (but that's probably Martin Brundle talking rubbish!!) Another good race from Kubica.. I really feel he was overlooked for the second seat at Mclaren and he's almost single handedly responsible for BMW leapfrogging Mclaren in the constructors. It'll be a shame when all of the regulating from the FIA kicks in...I feel that F1 is richer (in content,not money...they've tons of that!) with the technology race between the manufacturers. It will be sad to see a cap on the R & D as this stuff eventually makes it to our road cars, especially all the gearbox things like paddle shift and semi-auto. Imagine F1 without the 6 wheeled Tyrell from '76 and the side skirt Ferrari of G. Villeneuve

I really like the doors on the tow truck, the clear top section is very effective giving the appearance of having the window part wound down.(Looking at Peeron, they appear to have been discontinued in '73 which is a shame). They have a lot of play value with the steering etc and remind me of larger, pressed steel vehicles like dinky toys etc. It must have been an exciting time for a child in the late '60's to have a moving vehicle that you could rebuild and change. Perhaps TLC could 'copy' parts of the design and give us opening doors in the current 6-wide vehicles

I've still not seen episode 1 but hopefully will this week. I've heard it's a good one, though. Similar to Star Trek Next Gen, there seems to be 3 types of episode - Fighting ones, thinking ones and chatting ones! Series 3 relied too much on the chatting episodes (with the Cylons being revealed at the end of the last episode) and I agree with Mr Hobbles that there needs to be a bit more thinking / fighting in it. Being the last series, I assume that they will find Earth but I imagine that there will be one huge twist at the end. In the pilot they introduced Boxy (the young lad who had that robot dog in the original series). I think that he'll make an appearance towards the end of this series to stir thing up. I love Yellost's idea that we're all Cylons - brilliant!!! (Thanks Mr. Mandalorian/Yoda for moving the topic)

Hello, SalvoBrick. Thats an impressive layout you have there. I really like the small details that you've added, it must be hard for them not to be lost in such a big setup. In particular, the ATM and the power distribution building really add to the feel of the town. Have you used a specific Italian transport font for the road signs? (I've recently found and used the U.K. road sign font and wondered if you've got the Italian one).

Hi, PaulC. I really like all of the details you've crammed in to this - the lorry is really good. Have you thought about adding one of those stripey tent things and some black, flat tiles to make a hole in the road? A good addition to any city layout, thanks for sharing it.