Red Fox

Nice review! I actually bought one of these off the BA Website after seeing someone post on this forum that they were on sale. A handy website indeed!

Got mine the other day (Box not squished!) and quite pleased with it! Many thanks NEILLOFT for the heads up!

Handcuffs on the bed - Classic batchelor pad accessory! Very good model - Would love to have that in my city!

Still unsure on the marina. I remember getting the last Sail and Fly Marina in a toy shop years and years ago and building it with my mum. It was a very impressive set! If I did buy the new marina, I'm thinking of combining it with the S&FM, by connecting it on to the small jetty at the end of the S&FM (The one with the red and white pillar light) Thats the only way I can think of incorparating it into my city. Of course, I won't be purchasing any of the new 2011 sets until the VIP Programme has a Double Points promotion. Then its spend, spend, spend!!

Beauitful city you have there! The lighting is great and really adds to the city.

Ah see you've done what I am really kicking myself about not getting done! During winter it's freezing cold up there and in summer it's boiling hot! And the rafters are a small price to pay for such a large space ripe for development! Renting out a warehouse to set it up in instead wouldn't have been a bit too expensive me thinks! And I'm from sunny, sunny Hampshire! Yourself?

KielDaMan - Thanks! One of the important choices that I had to decide on when I started was what colour plates should I use? I prefered the green as it gives the town a bit of colour, otherwise it would be grey throughout and the green next to the road could be used as a verge. Fuzzylegobricks - Thanks again. I tried looking for a cinema and other modular buildings but there don't seem to be any on there like the models I see put on display on this site. TheBrickster - Glad the pictures are OK now. And I look at the new train sets that come out and would like to get the odd one or two, such as the cargo train, but I don't really have any more room on my circuit for any new trains. I do have a cargo train that is about 6 wagons long and a loco on the front, the yellow and black train that can be seen in the photos, and finally the Metroliner with the Club Car on it too!

Leg Godt Gud - Thanks! The layout is the result of several adjustments but has generally followed the premise of a long straight road through the centre of the town and roads coming off the side. I can take a picture of the town as a whole, but the problem is there are wooden beams in the way, and if they were taken down to provide a large uninterupted view of my town, the roof would unfortunately fall down! I might get some pictures of the whole town taken tomorrow Novastar - Merci beaucoup! The loft was the only place to be able to put all my sets, but I am slightly regreting not getting the loft lined and turned into a proper room. This might have reduced the dirt build up on the town, but also if it gets done in the future, it will mean the town won't have to be dismantled in order to do it! So I would advise getting it plasterboard lined first!! buddy - Thanks! Any future developments will probably centre around the grey space being lined with modular buildings. I've been looking at my Town Plan Cinema today and I can definitely see a 3 storey building being able to be built from it. It could look really good!

Hello there! Since you've taken the time to reply to my post, I'll reply to your's! TheBrickster - Is that now OK? I have to say that I too find it a nightmare to keep the bricks and plates clean. And the spiders in my loft find the buildings and trees perfect for web building! And regarding the trains - I didn't have any train sets before I moved my sets up into my loft, but after purchasing the two freight loading depot sets which came with tracks and a train, I thought it would be silly not to have a track running around town. And I had always liked the Metroliner and seeing how it still commanded a premium price on eBay, I thought it would be nice to have one. And so I gradually I built up the track around town and got some trains. But how expensive are setting up a train network around a town?! Yikes! And now 9V track is no longer produced! Ah well...no town would be complete without a train network! lightningtiger - My town is surrounded by water on three sides and mountains/breeze blocks to the other , and due to its climate, the palm trees have flourished! I chose them as to create avenue effects around town and once I get to the stage with being happy with how my town is set up, I will get my other flora put around town, as at the moment it looks quite barren. And there is a big bag of flora to use up! And I do have to say that pre 1997, the Town kits were very good and it was what I grew up with. But since Cafe Corner, there seems to be some much better quality sets. All the sets I couldn't buy when I was a boy due to squandering pocket money on sweets, I now can thanks to eBay and some sellers keeping their items in good condition for nearly 30 years! meyerc13 - Thank you for the comments! I do like the harbour and it is the area that I first started with when I built my town. The big blue container ship at the back with the yellow cranes unloading is one of the most expensive non-modular buildings I have purchased, but it had all its stickers on and was in very good condition. It just had to be brought! The docks are still very much a WIP but I now have the majority of the items I want for my docks, except sets 4015 and 4022. woootles - Although it was aimed at girls, I've been using the Paradisa sets to create on the east side a recreation/water sports area, with sandy beach. But that may well change with the future "Marina" set that should hopefully be released in 2011. We shall wait and see what it looks like in comparison to the Sail and Fly Marina. escortmad79 and Cancerkitty - Many thanks for your comments! Fuzzylegobricks - That's the one! However, there doesn't seem to be any of the designs that people used to upload on there for Modular Buildings (Its the only section I would look at), that used to be worth downloading. Though there does seem to be quite a few of the LDD Shop Model that people have uploaded...

Regarding the resizing of photos, I am getting on to that now. I thought there might be a problem so thank you for no ear bashing! I may be alright dealing with certain computery things, but photos have always been an issue with me. Live and learn!

To echo what other members have said, a truely amazing model (Without it even being finished yet!). You definitely have alot of creativeness and I am green with envy! I would love to have something like this in my town to go with the other modular buildings I have. It would be great if the LG could produce something like this next year as one of the next modular buildings. I look forward to seeing the final product!

Hello there. I did post a long time ago (http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=40018) with some initial photos of how my WIP town was way back in March. Since then I have made some changes, with the addition of new parts and kits, such as Fire Brigade and Grand Emporium, and things are gradually getting to the stage where I am happy with certain bits of it. However, there are always tiny little changes that I want to make, which end up turning into big changes (Ala my port with the moving of the yellow and red cranes, and more port plates). There is still a lot of work to do, and I need to get my airport built but that will take some time. The big problem I have at the moment is the space within the 4 large grey plates. I would like to build a little town centre, with modular buildings surrounding a small communal ground in the centre (Forming a roundabout for traffic). The problem is my distinct lack of creativity and time to create some of the MOC Modular Buildings that I see people in this forum making. (For instance this model: http://www.eurobrick...showtopic=49498 - Truely awesome!). There used to be a time that people uploaded decent modular buildings on to the actual LEGO website and you could download them, and then obviously build them. However, I returned to LDD after many, many months and discovered that the LEGO Gallery had been wiped of people's models and there was nothing decent (Like the previous mentioned model) to download. I know it is cheeky to ask, and people will quite rightly tell me to do my own work, but is there anywhere online where I can find quality modular building LDD files to include in my town? At present, I believe I have space for 5 additional "Market Street-style" buildings, but with the LG producing one or two a year, my quest to get the town done could take years! From what I have seen of one female designer, I am thinking of using the Town Plan Cinema and Town Hall to create a proper modular cinema and proper town hall to add to the town (Which means they wouldn't look out of place and dwarfed by the current modular buildings!) Anyway. Enough of my prattling on and here are some pictures of my town so far: (Mods feel free to change/remove pictures if I have breached any rules I have not considered) A shot of the East Side, with the Sail and Fly Marina and various pleasure craft. The space that is ripe for modular development: A larger view of the West Side of town... A view of the docks area (Including my own petrol station forecourt roof for 6393 - Big Rig Truck Stop) Freight loading depot next to the container port The docks (4 sets combined, which include one of the best sets the LEGO Group produced - Launch and Load Seaport) A view of the harbour Hopefully by Summer next year, the LG will have released a new modular building (Pet Shop rumours...) that will help take up some space in the grey area. I am definitely a 80/90s kits fan (What happened in 1997?!), but I have collected a few kits since then (Obviously the modular buildings), and some kits not on show in those pictures (I have LOTS of vehicles to put into place once I am happy with the look of the town, but that will never happen!). And as can be seen in some pictures, my LEGO Town luckily wasn't hit by the Recession otherwise the icredibly large civil service consisting of Police and Fire staff would have had to have been dramatically cut back!

Will do VVBN! And Praetorian, the fire boat behind the 4020 fire boat is created from a set, reference number: 735 from 1990. You can build several fire related models from it, including a great big fire engine! Plus its 9V, so my fire boat glows all nice colours in the dark! Tres bling! I then added several fire officers to it, though the boat is not really designed to have them on board. The fire building next to them is my own creation, using fire-related pieces, such as the stickered windows, which acts as my Marine Fire HQ - Office and beds in the upper bit. I then extended a jetty out from the sloped platform to create the walkway to the boats. Its definitley unqiue! I'm going to have a splurge on spending soon to buy the new Lego Department Store model and the Carousel, and debating whether to get the Fire Department modular building too - Im just unsure of the fire engine that goes with it. I appreciate its a 1932's design but still... So I shall get more piccies over time!

Thank you very much for the welcomes! :) Pre-eBay, I had my models up in another loft which was a lot smaller. Then I decided the loft was cramping my creativity, so asking parents to assist, we boarded up our main loft and I have one side of it! Its nice having the space, and a good choice in carpet tile colour, so I don't need to worry about blue water plates! Hehehe! And Rufus, I am a town boy through and through. I think its because the kits I received when I was younger were all town kits and therefore I've developed that line of building!

Hello there! I've been lurking around the forum for a while but have decided to post, finally (And I also took some piccies of my town tonight so I thought I would share!). I believe my first set was the Shell Garage with the multi-storey car park (Seen in some of the piccies) and since then I've always wanted to design my own town (SimCity filled the void in between childhood and now!). After finally deciding to trust eBay a few years ago, my town has slowly started to grow and I am very much an "Old School" owner, prefering models from the 80s and early 90s, but still buy some of the more modern models, such as the Town Plan, and the modular models. Hopefully the piccies will load or I will find another means of uploading them! My town keeps changing (Which is why some layout bits are unfinished) due to my own personal creativity and the fact that Lego keeps bringing out new buildings, which means things have got to be shifted around, but its kinda roughly how it will eventually look ("Eventually"....yeah right! It'll never be finished!). And then I got to figure out where I'm going to put all the other bits that are waiting to be put in! (Hopefully the links work - I didn't want to put images directly on this page as they would probably be huge and take ages for the page to load...) http://i886.photobucket.com/albums/ac66/Th...ft/DSC01709.jpg http://i886.photobucket.com/albums/ac66/Th...ft/DSC01710.jpg http://i886.photobucket.com/albums/ac66/Th...ft/DSC01711.jpg http://i886.photobucket.com/albums/ac66/Th...ft/DSC01712.jpg http://i886.photobucket.com/albums/ac66/Th...ft/DSC01713.jpg