February 1, 2009 – 7:40 am
My scheduled worked out and I was able to be at Morehead when the doors opened yesterday and the flood of people was overwhelming. It was packed – so packed it was difficult to move around.
The train layout looks great, we had a bit of trouble getting the outer loop to run (it is really [...]
February 1, 2009 – 7:37 am
Other than running a little late, my setup for LEGOPalooza was fairly uneventful. Big thanks to Will Stroh and Dan Larson for their assistance setting up the train layout. They laid out almost all of the track and baseplates for me which is a huge help.
I had spent a couple days really limiting what I [...]
January 28, 2009 – 7:04 pm
This weekend NCLUG will have a numerous LEGO exhibits on display at LEGOPalooza. LEGOPalooza is a joint effort between NCLUG and the Morehead Planetarium. Located on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill, Morehead Planetarium has a large exhibition hall which will be filled with all sorts of LEGO exhibits. Dates and Times Saturday January 31st: 11 [...]
January 27, 2009 – 6:10 pm
My area of the layout got tweaked a bit today as we finalize the layout plan. In general the layout is a bit cleaner and it is by far the largest layout NCLTC has ever done. I have a few things to figure out but for the most part, I think I am in pretty [...]
January 25, 2009 – 3:10 pm
Renee and I just finished the last module I need for my neighborhood portion of the NCLTC layout at LEGOPalooza next weekend (yikes!).
This is a middle module and features a bunch of the dark red elements I got from the UTB project. Unfortunately I ran out of the dark red headlight bricks – I [...]