BricksMcgee

Nice railway station! Looks very classy. Like the gold fence pieces in the interior - are they from Friends sets? Very effective for ornate barriers :)

Why not? ;) That's a good idea - will try that next time!

Thanks JopieK! Yes, worth the tedious effort now I look at it :) The design of the catenaries are based on an idea I saw on Brickshelf on someone else's display (can't see the link now) - just adapted them a bit. For the show in Manchester they'll hopefully only be a single pole down the centre of the tracks which supports either side - uses a lot less bricks and less intensive to set up that way. I had planned to link each catenary with LEGO strings with studs at either end, but it was very difficult to make them stable that way - so used some of the pieces on the telegraph/phone line instead.

A few photos of a small LEGO train display I did as part of a small show at the weekend at Durham Cathedral as part of the 2nd birthday celebrations for the model (worth a look at the photos on their Facebook page). This display uses standard LEGO City/Creator vehicles (not something I fancied building on top of 84 baseplates of landscape for the larger layout!), and techniques I've seen and experimented with myself. For example, the corn is based on an idea from a LUG show (photos in this thread). Apologies for the quality of some of the photos - only had my phone with me on the day and some have come out a little dark! More of them are on flickr. I'm working on the remaining three quarters of the layout for Bricktastic in Manchester this August, so there's more to come very soon, hopefully! Doing this smaller show before then gave me a chance to test some of my ideas, so I'll leave you with some of my thoughts/discoveries: 1. having two long trains at the front of the small static layout does really block the view of the scenery behind (not an issue for the August show as trains will be moving!) 2. people really like finding the hidden scenarios in the display (e.g., hidden alien, construction worker caught short on the portaloo, farmer cleaning up after a cow) - gives it a little more impact, and rewards those who really look hard 3. the LEGO Minion to the left of the display was very popular (probably more so than my display!) 4. a lot of adults looking were surprised by what you can do with LEGO, and had lots of questions - so it's good to have some background knowledge and recommendations for local LUGs to help grow the community 5. using some actual LEGO sets was nice in that people recognised ones they had at home (and it saved me a lot of time!) 6. people will touch things! There were "no touching" signs on display, but no barriers (which I liked: more friendly). I purposely didn't have much towards the front that little (or larger) hands could get to. Nothing was stolen, and no harm was done - I'm not too precious about the LEGO I display so if kids (or the one adult I spotted) want to push the trains, I let them

Brilliant! Looks like a pub I'd like to spend a sunny afternoon in. And the narrow boat is nicely done too!

FYI, there was a Farm subtheme in 2009/2010 which had some great sets (see City Farm sets on Brickset). Be good to see that brought back soon!

Like it! Your use of the net piece for fences has given me an idea for an MOC of my own, thanks!

Wow, some great work Michael - thanks! Missed out on first ME orders but definitely on my list for future purchases!

Great models, love the flatbeds!

Salmon colour looks great - very odd part though!

Looking good! Like the paving near the road, too.

Not a download, but if you can wait for the LEGO City 60097 set there's a sign (presumably sticker on tile) in the coffee hut: Photo here

Great build - bus is brilliant by itself, but the track system is impressive too. Looks like it runs very smoothly, too!

Great models - like the modern bus particularly! Very recognisable.

Good effort, and nice solution to getting the headlights at an angle on the front there.

Nice landscaping on the corner, looks fantastic! Have a corner on my layout I think may benefit from something like that

Nice bit of landscaping, and the train is great too!

Like the warehouse and dock, and the green shunter train is brilliant!

Wow! Some great detailing on the deck

Brilliant, thanks ecmo47. Great effort!

@ecmo47 Looks great, glad it went well. Do you have a list of the 20 vignettes/photos? Be interested to see them!

Wow, that's very close. Some crazy SNOTting going on there!

Thanks for posting - love the narrow gauge models!

The car looks fantastic - especially the door handles. Nice detail!

Brilliant, had many of those sets as a kid. I've got some of the new airport sets and the planes would dwarf the old sets now! Thanks for posting - some nice nostalgia for a Sunday afternoon for me!