Redhead1982

Vodovodni stolp (in Slovene language) or Water tower is one of the most prominent buildings in my hometown Kranj, Slovenia. Its location is 46°14'54.1"N 14°21'35.6"E. When it was build, it was positioned well outside the borders of the town, however, as the town grew, a new neighbourhood built around the tower was renamed after it. The Water tower was designed by Jan Vladimir Hrasky, (1857–1939), a Chech engineer, hydrologist and builder who was also a lecturer at the Prague's Technical Faculty. The building of the Water tower began in 1908, and finished 3 years in 1911. When the tower was built, it was considered as one of the most impressive and magnificent water supply buildings in the area. It provided water supply for the town of Kranj and 15 neighbouring villages. This is one of the oldest picture of the tower I could find online (unknown author, source). The Water tower is 34 m high, and is today one of the most prominent attractions in Kranj. At the top of the tower is an octagonal two-chamber water reservoir with a capacity of 250 m3. The tower was used to provide water pressure for facilities in Kranj and its surroundings. Today, the Water tower is still functional and is part of the water supply network. It provides pressure to the surrounding buildings and serves as a discharger for equalizing water pressure. Today, the Water tower presents a specific cultural monument of local importance, mostly due to its authenticity, age, historical value, technical qualities, and conservations. In addition, when the town was expanded to the north, the newly built neighbourhood was named after its hallmark. Since 2006 the tower is opened to the general public one day a year, and the visitors can enjoy the view from the observational deck. The picture of the tower taken by Panoramio user Brkne in 2008. It still looks as it did in the black and white picture, however, the town has expanded far around the tower. The LEGO model I made is about 20 cm in height and has 411 parts. A view from the side reveals a symmetrical shape of the tower. The top with the water reservoir and an observational deck was the most challenging part. Specifically, I had a problem building the safety fence. I chose a simple string with studs, and the final solution was the third one I tried. I'm not completely satisfied (it doesn't look safe enough for potential visitors), but I cannot think of a better one.

Nice work. I like the colour scheme the most and the mirrored exterior. The terrace and back door to the garden is a nice details to add more life to usually less interesting sides of the buildings. As for the interiors, you managed to fill them up with furniture really nicely.

What I find the most impressive about this ski jump is its runway high in the air. I'm familiar with smaller ski jumps (there's one in my home town, and another in a valley in the Alps), and they both have the runway on the slope of the hills. Your architectural model looks great, it's recognizable, and it has some amazing non-conventional building techniques. I like how you got the right shape with different types of bricks. Well done!

Thanks for posting these pictures. I plan to make more pic of my tower over the weekend and make a new thread in Special Themes. Can I ask to correct a typo? The town (where my tower is from) is named Kranj (without the 'u' in the end). Thanks.

The architecture models are fantastic. Well done, everyone!

A big thanks also from me to the organizers, although I wasn't part of the event in the end. However, in my new EB t-shirt and building the yellow castle almost feels like I was there.

Fantastic work! It looks very simple, but I'm sure there was a lot of planning to get the right shape of France with bricks. The Eiffel tower looks amazing, I like it's scale and general shape. I wonder how stable it is with those connections? Congratulations on this creative MOC!

Thanks for letting me know this, Peppy. MstrOfPppts mentioned there were amazing entries, so I'm really looking forward seeing the pictures of the other entries.

You're not alone there...

This is lovely work. I like the fact that it represents a real village. It's always much harder to recreate realistic buildings, and you did a great job also including details from a real life. Well done.

Thanks. I know your persuading showing skills are well developed.

As I won't be able to join you, I asked MstrOfPppts to present my model. I hope that's fine, if not, there's a call for rule changes.

The sum of the numbers in the set's catalog number (4095-1) equals to 2x10. The set has 6 green technic bricks 1x10. The set has bricks in 10 colours (black, dark grey, light grey, green, lime, red, tan, white, trans red and trans clear).

Very funny! I don't trust you.

I'm late again. The set has a white technic 1x10 brick. The yellow and grey ''vehicles'' are made out of 10 parts.

Thanks for this info. You're right about the too expensive. I was expecting a higher price than in Germany. This leaves more money to buy some extra sets.

There are bricks in 10 different non-transparent colours in the set (yellow, white, reddish brown, red, medium blue, magenta, light bluish grey, dark bluish grey, blue, black). Sorry, I don't get it. No problem. What I thought is that within the inventory you get 10 different bricks to put the stickers on. But I checked again, and I miscounted them. Sorry about that (and the extra work checking it out).

I have a question for the more experiences visitors of Billund LL.How much do the bulk bricks cost in the park? I know in Germany the price can be fair for some types of bricks, but not all. According to Brickbuildr the parts selection seems smaller than in Gunzburg, but I'd still like to be prepared if there were some interesting new parts available. Has anyone been there recently?

I knew there was a reason I woke up in the middle of the night, and that it was not just for a midnight snack. Besides the release year - 2010 - as was already posted, the most obvious to me is that the truck has 10 wheels and 10 tires. In addition, the minifig heads (3626bpb405 and 3626bpb331) were both first released in 2010. Edit: First thing in the morning, I noticed the set has specific parts with stickers, that is 10 distinct bricks with stickers.

I've asked about this before, but since there was no specific reply (and I know these sets are nothing special). I have these to trade: - Horizon Express (10233) - middle and rear passenger cars (they're still in polybags, with instructions) - Small Cottage (31009) - sealed box - Stunt Plane (60019) - sealed box - Heartlake Flying Club (3063) - sealed box. If there's no interest in them, I'd prefer to leave them at home, so not to carry too much weight there and back (and to save space for possible new sets).

The box of the set has a side of 10 cm (the height of the box) according to BL.

Actually, I was up early accidentally, really. I was sure to miss the today's set, but then Holodoc was up even earlier.

The set has exactly 10 pieces, not counting the Duplo figure.

What I like the most at this game, is the originality of all the answers.

It's the 10th series of Collectible minifigs. And it's catalog number has a 10 in it (71001). That's the most obvious to me.