[WIP] Turn of the Century Middle-Town-America Main Street

[Brickstarrunner]

I have began on a big project. I mean REALLY big. Don't believe me? Check out the plan I made in LDD:

Below are some street accents that I hope to install. Some gas powered street lamps, some signs, and even trash bins.

Here's a question for you, which gas powered lamp do you like the most? I don't know which one I like the most, and the one that is the most liked will the the main lamps featured on Main Street with the other two being on the sidelines.

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The Horse Drawn Carriage which I already did another entire thread about, and that thing which you tie horses onto. What's it called? I seem to have forgotten.

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And the real street which I am basing the design on. You can clearly see that I have almost made an exact copy of Disneyland's Main Street, from the Horse Drawn Carriage Tracks to the Disneyland Railroad Main Street Station.

This project is a bit overwhelming the more I look at it

Wish me luck

Edited June 8, 2012 by Phred
Deep-linked over-sized images. -Phred

[mikersoft]

On the gas powered lamps, I vote for 3 bulbs A. 5 bulbs looks a little too cluttered, IMO.

-Mike

[slovakiasteph]

3 bulbs a as well. It has a clean, classic look.

It's a hitching post.

This is going to be great!

[Vindicare]

I'm going with 3A. This is an ambitious project that I'm looking forward to seeing.

[Brickstarrunner]

Update Progress:

Looks like it was a tad bit too ambitious for my LDD to handle. I had to cut the project into 3 segments: The Station, The Plaza, and the Hub due to my computer crashing every time I did a zoom out shot to get a good look at it. I hope I will be able to put it all together at the end without crashing

Also, I know this is a TOWN forum and all, but I began work on the Station and will work my way down Main Street.

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For any Disneyland geek out there, like me, you'll notice that I based the design off of the original 1955 Disneyland Coaches and the Lilly Belle, a refurbished original Disneyland COach to become a V.I.P Parlor of sorts. You are also a super-duper geek if you can tell that I also based that freight car off of another Original Disneyland Train, the Freight Train.

PS: Anyone know how to make a good looking American 4-4-0 in LDD? Wait, why am I asking in a town forum anyways? Shouldn't I be asking in the Train Forum? I guess I'll ask there and here just to spread the chance of getting an answer.

Started a thread in the Train Forum that not only asks for help building the 4-4-0, but also goes in depth of the coaches.

Edited June 8, 2012 by Phred
Deep-linked over-sized images. -Phred

[Capn Frank]

I've deep-linked your posted images that were too large. Per member guidelines, images are not to be larger than 800x600, and they rarely need to be more than 640 x 480. Feel free to re-post the images once you've down-sized them.

[Brickstarrunner]

I've deep-linked your posted images that were too large. Per member guidelines, images are not to be larger than 800x600, and they rarely need to be more than 640 x 480. Feel free to re-post the images once you've down-sized them.

So very sorry about that. I'm starting to use Brickshelf and learning how to deeplink pictures and resized ones and stuff like that.

I would like to thank Murdoch17 for lending me a MOC of a 4-4-0! I modified the driving rods a bit as well as the tender and gave it a fresh coat of paint. It looks fantastic!

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I also refurbished the Lilly Belle as well.

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And the station is coming along nicely.

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PS: Sorry if pictures are big. I am still trying to learn how to deep link. I am in a rush because I am catching a bus to Disneyland today as well to get some reference photos (Annual Pass Holder)

Edit: Thanks for that. I think I'll just link them from now on. It's a hassel trying to resize the photos in Gimp, exporting to Photobucket, etc.

Edited June 8, 2012 by Brickstarrunner
Deep-linked over-sized images.

[Brickstarrunner]

After two recent trips to Disneyland (One on Mon, another on Wed, and one coming up on Fri) I started taking reference photos of buildings and such. One thing that kept on cropping up in the background were the vehicles, minus the trolley which I already mentioned.

I decided to populate my town with an Omnibus (Double Decker Bus), 2 Vans (One Coca Cola and the other Milk, and 2 Horseless Carriages. Minor addition, but I had to take some time away from the buildings. Besides, the roofs of the buildings are extremely hard to try and get together, since most of the slants in my reference pictures with the corners and such are near impossible to do in LEGO.

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Once I have the full set (Fire Engine, HORSE drawn Fire Engine, and the residents of the town I will make a separate thread going into detail about all of them.

[The Blue Brick]

I love the Cargo trucks, especially the Coca Cola. I can't wait to see this in brick. The layout seems huge.

[meyerc13]

The bus is perfect, definitely love it. I really like the trucks as well, although I think they may be a bit out of scale. Since detail and size can be enemies, I think you've hit a good compromise between the two. I'd buy it if I saw it on the shelf, so well done!

[Brickstarrunner]

The bus is perfect, definitely love it. I really like the trucks as well, although I think they may be a bit out of scale. Since detail and size can be enemies, I think you've hit a good compromise between the two. I'd buy it if I saw it on the shelf, so well done!

Agreed on the size. I am going to shrink the back a bit because I put in a functioning door with frame. I'll see what alternatives I have.

[Brickstarrunner]

After a small amount of tweaking, I used a different door, scaled down the back end, shortened the height, removed the cab's roof lip, and overall shrunk it so that the scale wouldn't be so off.

Below the first link I put in comparison shots of the new and old vans. You'll know which is which when you see it.

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Also, the fire engine and fire wagon are proving to be quite the challenge, seeing as most of both vehicles have very thin parts that curve all over the place; thinner than any plate or title available. I may have to cope the design from that Fire Brigade set.

Edited June 15, 2012 by Brickstarrunner

[Brickstarrunner]

The first building for my town has been completed: The Fire Station.

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The thread going into detail about the station can be viewed here.

Edited June 17, 2012 by Brickstarrunner