| | Hi, I'm Trudy. I'm a 40+ yr collector/designer and specialize in the City theme. My city is large enough to take up a 32x19 room complete with all the expert creator modulars in a huge city with downtown areas, airport with runways, trains throughout, 2 train/bus stations, and a rail switching yard next to a cargo shipping terminal that leads out to the deep sea and Coast Guard. I have a lot of custom builds, some big, some small, several that started as a Lego model and turned it something barely recognizable as the original. Some may have begun as an idea sparked by something I saw or a place I traveled to, and then morphed into something incredible, like my Union Station. My current project is a couple years in the making. I’m building a large mountain, that will run along the back side of 1 3/4 of my tables. It will have several canyons to serve as dividers for the different sections I plan to have along the length of the tables. There will be a modern gold mining section, and a throwback to Fort Legorado and the Lone Ranger Silver Mine sets. There will be train tunnels and the plan is for tourists from the campground to get tickets at the Ranger Station and ride the Emerald Express and watch a mock gunfight at the Fort as well as view the river and beautiful scenery and wildlife. I’ll probably have a small logging operation, a small farm and a couple cabins up on the mountains somewhere. This is a big project, and the mountain itself is time consuming to build, as it take lots of small pieces to make it look good. My ideas flow a lot faster than my hands work or my wallet can afford. It’s not unlike me to cross theme, so at a whim I may pull out an old Pirate ship and sail it into the Harbor, or fly an Indiana Jones plane in, or head off to a jungle or arctic adventure. I do all this for fun, and to relieve stress from my career as a pharmacist. I just enjoy building, creating and designing, whether it's the Legos themselves, the tables I built to set them on, or the lights I installed under the tables for a whole other world beneath the surface. The few people who have seen the layout, are completely amazed at what I have hidden in my basement. The best part, is that my kids enjoy it too, and it's something we can all do together. | | This page has been viewed 67 times. |
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