I went back and read thru all the posts again to make sure I’m caught up on everything here.
I’m a little confused as to why Tim’s section isn’t adjacent to the Greg/Josh section, since Tim sez he’s gonna snowify at least part of his display. I suppose if the space guys snowify too then it’ll all be connected, but I’m not sure. For the record, I am *not* planning on snowification of any part of my section – I am looking to seeing the winter village etc, but snow building is not something I’m good at and therefore it is not something I am interesting in contributing to. I am planning on my section being green and full of plants and trees with leaves n stuff.
I MILSified my Palace Cinema tonight. All I did was put bricks around the edges in the standard MILS pattern, and then supporting bricks inside where necessary (I used a lot) to support plates to cover the whole area. I used dark blay 8×8’s for the sidewalk (even tho you can’t actually see them cause they’re covered with tiles) and several different sizes of red plate for the interior (the PC comes with a red 32×32 baseplate so that the interior ‘carpet’ is red). Crappy pics are attaced for reference.
For the rest of my area, the big limiting factor right now is actual baseplates – I haven’t actually found them all yet, but based on bricklink.com research, I only own five or so 32×32, of different colors. Did the LUG make a big baseplate purchase? I see they’re $5 on lego.com, I’d be interested in purchasing some at cost if they’re available for less than that.
I see 9V is the preferred track here, so I will be using that for my area. All my 9V track is dark gray – not dark blay – so I won’t match anybody using blay track. I am also going to attempt to convert my Horizon Express to 9V motor, although I have not done so yet.
I have a bunch of monorail stanchions I can use in my area if needed.
I’ve been allotted 16 baseplates worth of space on the layout, but I’m still only fully committed to 4 baseplates worth. I could fill up the remaining space with guys n whatnot, but if anybody else wants to move in on that space, feel free – I saw that Laura said she has buildings n stuff.