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My children have their own bricks, yet (surprise, surprise ) they mostly prefer mine. Therefore I had to impose some restrictions on playing with my collection, mostly in the terms that they should learn to be aware that the pieces can get broken or lost if being handled carelessly. I have already got used that sometimes they take the sorted pieces (usually the smallest ones) and mix them all together, though.

An amazing creation and very accurate scaling down of the original, although it necessitated for the pitch to be of very diminished size compared to the minifigs. But with the capacity crowd all around the pitch this is barely noticeable. Very well done.

Very well executed, looks much better than Big Ben standing alone. As a huge fan of London, I'd love to see any of them, so keep up the good work.

This is so cool and ingenious! Now I see that I will have to assemble my calendar which I have kept MISB for more than a year. I will definitely stay tuned for the remaining months.

Nice work, it really brings a cheerful variation into a grey surroundings. The colours in each separate part of the staircase are also cleverly arranged - colder colours together, brighter colours together etc. Well done.

According to Bricklink, they do and note that the helmet is different from that worn by single-coloured CS minifigs without visors. If you saw those without they are probably assembled together from CS and Futuron and therefore not original.

Fantastic and instantly recognisable. My favourite part is Snoopy's nose, it almost looks like the ball had been intentionally designed for this particular detail.

For me it's pretty much the same - the time between leaving as a teenager and coming back as an AFOL when my first child was born. But I visited Legoland for the first time right in the middle of my dark age, though, as it was on my 'to do' list ever since I first had the bricks in my hands as a child.

Thanks @all. Some of you mentioned a row of such houses - I agree that a few more of them placed together would look great. I already had in mind to construct two additional houses in dark red and dark orange, but unfortunately not all the necessary parts exist in these colours. This also accounts for the relatively plain facade without any special details as I was restricted to the parts that are available both in dark tan and reddish brown and in reasonable quantities. This would certainly add a finished touch to the interior. But to make a turn on top of the stairs in a tight space I used this brick which cannot be evenly tiled, therefore I rather left all the studs exposed.

Well done. The final product is instantly recognisable and has some clever solutions, especially for the lower 'round' part. Although both parts are consequently of octagonal shape, I like that you made the distinction between them by building the upper octagon in a different way. The string is also OK, it just fits into the scale.

After quite some time I managed to create another modular house. Well, two modular houses actually, as I decided to build two 16-wide mirror-imaged residential houses. Street view. Again I found the inspiration in the Anglo-Saxon world and chose the colours accordingly to represent the brick-built houses. Rear view. Each house has a terrace with the stairs leading down to the garden. Another smaller terrace is located on the top each house. Both houses are fully furnished inside. The dark tan house has a small kitchen and a living room on the ground floor and a huge chest of drawers under the stairs. The first floor has a bedroom and a bathroom. A bed with a small bedside table and a bookshelf. Bathroom with sink, toilet and towel rack in the corner. A 'chill-out area' on the top floor with TV set and comfortable armchair. Initially I had no proper idea what to put in here until my little son who was playing around while I was building asked 'Why they don't have a TV in the house if there is an aerial on the roof?' The brown house is very similarly furnished as next door. The ground floor has a kitchen and a living room (with TV set too). First floor. The bathroom is a mirror image of the neighbours' bathroom while the bedroom has a slightly different arrangement. A bed with a bookshelf. The top floor has a 'chill-out room' too, turned into an AFOL's workplace. A new modular is being built on the desk. Some bricks are still scattered across the desk while the majority of them is stored in the big cardboard boxes in the back. OOB modulars are displayed on the shelf beside the desk - from left to right are grand emporium, green grocer, fire brigade, town hall and palace cinema. A few additional exterior pictures can be found here.

Coming from ski jumping country, being myself a huge ski jumping fan and having visited the site in 1995, I cannot congratulate you more for this. It's absolutely stunning. The way that you managed to re-create so many of the characteristics of the ski jumping hill - inclination, curvatures and different widths - on such a small scale is amazing.

I keep all the boxes from post-dark ages era folded flat under the bed. I have also kept all but four boxes of my childhood sets (late 80s/early 90s) and they are still in very good condition, despite being stored in a cellar for some 15 years. Now they reside in a big TV set box on the top of the wardrobe.

Nice looking 70s era bus. I would also like to see more of your town. It's nice that somebody is also having a go in retro style building.

Except for some modulars and vehicles that I built in last year and which are part of permanent installations at our LUG events, I recycle all my MOCs. That means, I built, photograph, present online and/or at events, take everything apart and start building something new. Until I started building for our events, every MOC that stayed assembled together for more than three months seemed to me to be eternal.

Well done. The tunnel over the curve is much more challenging than over the straight track. The slope of the hill is also nice, though I must agree with Hrw-Amen that a little bit of extra height would give it a more genuine appearance. Nevertheless, it would be a great addition to a layout, so keep up the good work.

1. Taking too much time ? As I sometimes have periods of weeks that I don't build absolutely anything, it doesn't take that much time on average. 2. Wanting to explore other 'interests' I recently got back into music a bit, but it's still not interesting enough to drive me away from lego. 3. I really should be putting my $ elsewhere ... Hmmm, that might become an issue one day, I realize that my expenditure on lego is rising... 4. Enough with this 'play' ... time to focus on contributing to Society, and possibly leaving a legacy behind ... Well, being involved in AFOL community is itself a contribution to society, isn't it? 5. One's own mortality ... who's gonna sort my thousands of parts once I'm gone ... sure hope they don't end up as a bulk lot on eBay for a fraction of the initial investment ... I will deal with this when I'll be gone, though I'm not sure if I will be able to. 6. I've reached my 500 post ... a Knight now (with all Rights and Privileges as they said during my graduation), will take forever to reach the next level ... I'm not even halfway through for Knight, so I still have a work to do. 7. What else ... ? Nothing else at the moment, lego still keeps me busy.

An interesting and realistic concept, and as the others have said, a great addition to any city layout. Maybe it only needs another minifig or two doing some other work, but it looks great nevertheless.

It's the same with us. Yet, as long as they handle them properly, they can play with my creations (modulars and trains especially) and some loose parts (namely 2x2 and larger bricks) that I don't currently use.

The wall made of profile bricks is a nice addition as it breaks up the monotony of the front end and gives the effect of blinds or something similar inside.

Great building with nice description and superb details, like the diagonal floor and foam. The piano man seems to expect plenty of tipping.

Thanks @all. It is currently displayed at our LUG event that takes place this weekend. At home I take it apart in three sections to have it stored. I certainly had. There's no duplo inside, all the support is built entirely of system parts and a few technic bricks. Not so easily, it is attached along the entire length of the walls, i.e. no tiles and studs only here and there under it, but each level of the roof is built of three sections so it can be removed in parts. I was thinking about it when I started building the thing but as I only have RC tracks it was ruled out and I didn't even think of 12V rails. When I presented it on our LUG website a fellow AFOL posed the same question and said 'I have some spare 12V straight rails so if you told me before...'

Amazing work. The entire house is very nicely (and inventively) built, but it's the details that really stand out. I like especially the clock pendulum and the chandelier. Well done!

Kocke.si (our national LUG website and forum), Eurobricks and to a lesser extent Bricklink (it just turns out to be too expensive to check it all the time ). I used to visit Peeron quite regularly in the past but mostly kept away from it once it stopped being updated regularly, though I still use it from time to time for older sets' instructions.

As already hinted at the presentation of the turntable a larger project of railway infrastructure display was under way. So the typical engine depot from the era of steam traction was created. Unfortunately not a very common sight these days as most of these buildings were taken out of operation together with the demise of the steam engines they housed and left to decay, but many were also preserved as listed buildings or converted into museums. The depot has a turntable, engine shed and some smaller objects: masonry water tower, storage shed and a small crane. The turntable for the engines. Its basics were already presented here while this final version got some minor alterations - the pit wall is reinforced with an additional line of hinges and extended by 4 studs in circumference to allow smoother rotation of the bridge. And of course a control box is added. A shed for storing the workers' tools and a wide variety of junk. Water tower with liftable water pipe. A small crane is also located at the depot where the sleepers are being loaded onto a railcar. Disused stuff is lying all around. The old telegraph poles are dumped next to the storage shed. The largest building at the depot is the engine shed with room for four Emeralds. The interior of the engine shed. Three rails are intended for housing engines only. The rail at the right side of the engine shed has some more space around it and here the repairs and smaller maintenance works take place. The workers in the engine shed also throw all the rubbish right behind the wall where empty barrels and various disused engine parts keep accumulating. The entire thing is 160x96 studs (127x77 cms) in size and took about 70 hours to build. Some more pictures can be found here.