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Just thought I'd post this up here since many of you are Lego fans. My wife and I debated on buying a real Christmas village, then I thought I could buy a Lego one, and when I saw the prices for those pieces, I decided to give it a go with my own bricks. So here's a little log cabin all done up for the holidays! Taking some ideas from the Lego Ideas Book, I designed the roof to come off separately so it's easy to see the inside. Enjoy! And Happy Holidays!!!

hee hee that's really cute! i love it

Pretty decent. It's tricky doing off-the-cuff things without tracking down a whole load of other pieces -- particularly for the "modern" style of generally not showing studs. But there's a lot of life left in the more classic pieces and mixing them in.

Were the red paned windows 70s?

edit: Nope, bit before -- http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=7026ac01

Still got some of those inherited from relatives.

That's lovely. I like the way you made the Christmas lights on the house, and it always makes me nostalgic to see those single-piece pine trees. Most models you see nowadays shy away from them in favour of brick-built trees, but there's something to be said for the neat simplicity of the old ones. The snow could maybe use a bit more texture, but like Denyer says you're pretty much at the mercy of whatever pieces you've got on-hand when you do something like this on the spur of the moment. I think it turned out really well.

Santa's watch must be fast though, he showed up when it was still daylight.

Denyer wrote:Still got some of those inherited from relatives.

School Dacta sets are also gold for that sort of stuff too.


Lovely model

Thanks for the comments, everyone!

Denyer wrote:Pretty decent. It's tricky doing off-the-cuff things without tracking down a whole load of other pieces -- particularly for the "modern" style of generally not showing studs. But there's a lot of life left in the more classic pieces and mixing them in.

Were the red paned windows 70s?

edit: Nope, bit before -- http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=7026ac01

Still got some of those inherited from relatives.

Yep. Those windows are definitely inherited from sets my older siblings had. I don't usually use them much, but they came in handy on this one making a Bay window.

Warcry wrote:That's lovely. I like the way you made the Christmas lights on the house, and it always makes me nostalgic to see those single-piece pine trees. Most models you see nowadays shy away from them in favour of brick-built trees, but there's something to be said for the neat simplicity of the old ones. The snow could maybe use a bit more texture, but like Denyer says you're pretty much at the mercy of whatever pieces you've got on-hand when you do something like this on the spur of the moment. I think it turned out really well.

Santa's watch must be fast though, he showed up when it was still daylight.

Yeah, I would have liked to do more detail in the snow too; work and kids really derails all thoughts of doing something intricate! I figure this was a good starting point since I've literally never done Lego snow before, and I'd like to make it more complex with more buildings each holiday season from here on out.

I absolutely love single piece trees. I use them on all out-doorsy sets, matter of fact, I don't think I've ever tried building my own tree of bricks.

Santa just tried to get started a little early so he'd have some extra time for Ms. Claus!

Cliffjumper wrote:School Dacta sets are also gold for that sort of stuff too.


Lovely model

Thanks!

EDIT: Ignore me, I'm a bumpkin

Man, that looks awesome! Now I want a Lego snow villiage too

Lovely, great job.

Jealous you got that many Lego pieces. They are always not enough in my house. Not too long ago I built a simple Bat cave for my son and I nearly used all of mine. Now my wife is asking me to build a display stand for those little figures ............

Cheapest place for bulk is http://www.bricklink.com sellers if you haven't found it already.

Paul053 wrote:Lovely, great job.

Jealous you got that many Lego pieces. They are always not enough in my house. Not too long ago I built a simple Bat cave for my son and I nearly used all of mine. Now my wife is asking me to build a display stand for those little figures ............

I have a boatload of them, actually. I was really into them as a kid, so everyone bought me sets back then. When I hit grad school, I picked up quite a few castle themed sets, so my collection grew quite a bit back then too.

I'll post a few pics of my Castle/Fantasy setup I had going about 6 months ago, which has since been taken down. For the most part, I can build a ton of stuff, but once I get 4-5 buildings up, I run out of certain colored pieces and have to improvise. For this house in particular, I was getting short on brown blocks. I originally had a larger house in mind, but couldn't pull it off with the limited 'log cabin' pieces I have.

Keep an eye out for my huge setup, it was ~99% all custom stuff I put together!