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This layout really has an 80s feel, especially with the old road plates. I like the bike paths too and the island with flowers is a very nice detail on the street. Well done!

None, never, apart from what was gone up the vacuum cleaner and not checked when the dust bag was replaced - probably nothing larger than 1x1 plate or so. I even kept all the boxes pretty much intact, except those of my very first sets which I cut up when I was a child. Now I wish I hadn't do that ever, but it was so interesting to have small pictures of various lego products back then...

Definitely, if not already a must, if you're into mocing, but it's great too if you're only looking for sets or any other stuff. I had virtually the same dilemma a few years ago and thought that I could have done without it. But as my mocs grew larger and ever more sophisticated, buying on BL was the only solution. Just be prepared for all the $$$ that you might spend, it's quite easy to spend a fortune once you see what can you get there.

Very nice locomotive. I agree with the others that the curved and inclined parts contribute most to realistic appearance. The pantographs are also very nicely designed.

Amazing, both in size and details. All the departments are very cleverly designed and equipped. Well done!

A great redesign of HH. The white colour instead of LBG on corners and windows makes a very nice combination with sand green. My favourites are the verandah and the lower part made of 'brick' bricks. And the corners also look much nicer in bricks than pillars. Only the contrast between the house in sand green and the chimney in dark orange is maybe a bit too big (as seen on flickr pics), have you maybe considered to build it in brown? Well done.

This is amazing. It's very beautifully designed and the container is unique. Very well done! ...and obviously doesn't sting too.

Thanks @all. My wife said exactly the same when she first saw it. Yes, it is quite bright colour for kitchen, but I wanted to make it different from the other rooms and as I already used light blue for bathroom and considered LBG to be somewhat dull, I settled for lime. And thanks for mentioning it in your blog.

Very beautiful house. The combination of sand blue and white really adds to the seaside feeling. It's nice how you designed the marine themed interior with brighter colours in the living room and more subdued colours in the bedroom. The painting would probably look even better with 2x2 round tile instead of a dish but it would be more difficult to place it in position without deforming the tiled background. Well done!

Having built several custom sized modulars for my dioramas, I rebuilt this Victorian style building into a full size modular. I decided to take advantage of Town Hall's large quantity of bricks in dark orange which is a perfect colour to re-create a brick wall building. As virtually all my houses were empty inside from the top to the basement, this is also my first try at making a detailed interior. Street view, with typical bay windows extending all the way to the roof. Some details of the facade. A small garden in the backside with flower bed and ornamental shrubs. The house is built of three modules: ground floor, first floor and attic. Ground floor: hallway, kitchen and living room. Kitchen with all the essential elements such as oven, stove, sink, refrigerator and dining table. Living room with sofa, fireplace, grandfather clock and TV set. Hallway with spiral staircase. First floor: two bedrooms and bathroom. Large bedroom with double bed, wardrobe and a small workplace with desk and bookshelf. The smaller bedroom is a child/teenager room. Bathroom with toilet, washbasin, shower and towel rack. The roof is not detachable and consequently the attic has no details inside. More pictures with details here.

Congratulations! Even without seeing the other entries it can be clearly seen why this one won. It's very nicely designed, and the details are stunning, especially the floor in the living room, roof and hedgerows. Well done!

Thanks @all. Those four rails won't lead just nowhere, so something will be placed at the end. Not really a layout, but it's going to be a part of a diorama 160x96 studs in size. A massive support will be built all the way under the 'ground level' of the plates, though it will take quite an amount of bricks to build it. As this is already my fifth 'elevated' project in last 3 years, I got some experience how to make it efficiently, even without duplo or any other cheaper material.

The treehouse would be a very nice set anyway, be it Dennis the Menace or just a 'no-name' set with a group of lego city children playing in their retreat up on the tree.

Cute little house with nice colour combination on the facade. It makes a wonderful street with the rest of your buildings. The interior is also great, especially the top floor is interesting.

Another larger project is under way and the first part of it is the rail turntable. An essential part of railway infrastructure in the era of steam traction but unfortunately not very common these days. The concept is fairly basic - a bridge for rotating the engines, or in this case to direct them to one of the rails leading to the roundhouse. Side view The drive is hidden under the rails. The turntable is powered by M motor which is powerful enough to rotate the bridge with Emerald Night on it. A video of turntable in action is shown . The entire thing is built on six 32x32 baseplates and the pit is 58 studs in diameter.

This is fantastic. Not only the train but also plenty of action that's going on around it. It makes a perfect carnival atmosphere. I like how you made the pavement. And no need to apologize for the photo quality, it's perfect in my opinion.

You probably thought of this site. EDIT: See you already got the answer.

Very well done. Considering it's your first moc train, you captured it perfectly, both the shape and the livery. The best detail in my opinion are snoted doors. It's also nice how you managed to conceal the receiver and the battery box in the middle car. The presentation in natural surrounding with track ballast and greenery around gives it even more realistic appearance. But interestingly, nobody commented on sleepers yet.

At my visit last year there was nothing special on PaB wall. Well, at least there was nothing what I needed right then. In fact, the selection was much better in Stratford at the time, but it's difficult to tell from just one experience what can be found there in general. After all, PaB walls in both shops are quite similar in size so something useful might turn up any time.

True. I see ppp as being also more intuitive factor than any other calculation. It's much easier to imagine a set with a given price of, say, 583 pieces than a set with a given price of, say, 871 grams. And to give some scientific justification to ppp: weighing is a relative measuring method, i.e. comparing an unknown weight of an object to a known weight of another object, while counting gives an absolute and independent value in the end, only needing to define what is one single part. From this point of view ppp would be a more precise descriptor than ppw.

Sounds interesting. I hope it will be more in style of CC or GG, i.e. a restaurant on the ground floor and an appartment or something similar above. Awaiting more info.

No matter if they are not really up to date, I never completely relied on what is shown here. Even if the data have not been updated for weeks, chances are you might still find some of those on the wall, especially the most ordinary bricks. And after all, half the fun of PAB is the expectation what are you going to find there, so sometimes it's better not to know beforehand what is actually in the boxes.

Very nice re-creation of the real oceanarium which has quite a complex outside structure. Well done! So did I. It's definitely a highlight of the entire Expo area and well worth visiting.

I like the run down appearance too. It certainly adds a lot of character to the creation. Well done.

All the cars are really outstanding but the beetle is one of the most original I have ever seen. It's amazing how you managed to get all those curved shapes into such a small model.