Welcome to the Victorian style home of Picory and Finch!

These two accomplished eccentrics are members of the Powerful Secret Society of Steampunk Travelers, or PSSST for short.

Picory is the cheeky architect who designed their Victorian style home and Finch is the ever inspired inventor who invented their steam powered horseless carriage, affectionately named Gherkin.

Every adventure has a beginning and an end. Start yours by loading up Gherkin and going on an epic journey to faraway lands! When you return, cozy up in your lavishly designed Victorian style home to relax and plan your next dream destination. But before that, you might want to tend to the fluffy long eared friends who have started burrowing in your flower beds.

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Dimensions:

⦁ Victorian Home

H: 17" (43cm) (height with chimney smoke assembly)

W: 13" (34cm)

D: 8" (21cm)

⦁ Horseless Carriage

H: 4" (11cm) (height with steam exhaust assembly)

W: 3" (8cm)

D: 6" (16cm)

The home features period accurate details from the Victorian era with some artistic liberties taken to allow as much light into the model as possible and to create a cozy environment for Picory and Finch to eat and plan their next adventure.

⦁ There is an ornate spiral staircase that connects both floors, which can be removed fairly easily if you would like to have more play room or enjoy the interior from more viewing angles. The staircase only connects to the base with a technic axle and an open 1x1 technic brick. There are two brackets with 4 total studs connecting the top of the staircase to the top floor, so it can all be removed in one subassembly and reattached later.

⦁ Both floors include a fireplace with a decorative mantel. The living room (aka parlor) fireplace has wood and embers inside and features an airship micro-build for the overmantel. It also includes two candleholders and candles. The bedroom fireplace features wood and embers inside as well, and has a mirror on the overmantel, a candelabra, and a green mineral to display.

⦁ The house chimney extends from the ground to the roof of the house with extensive decorative brick work. It also includes brick-built smoke at the top.

⦁ The home has intricately designed flooring throughout. There is an exterior wooden wrap-around porch and the first floor foyer, parlor and nook have interior tile patterns. The staircase and second floor have a runner carpet design and there is an area carpet design in the bedroom. All other interior flooring is brown to mimic the wood flooring of the time.

⦁ All furniture was meticulously crafted with ornate details to give the impression of opulence. Almost all the furniture is built as a submodel, with the exception of the drafting desk, due to it providing support for the middle wall. Furniture submodels include: a tufted sofa, a wingback chair, a desk chair, 2 side tables, a parlor table, a wrap-around booth, a dining table, a bed, a chest of drawers, a grandfather clock, and 4 bookshelves. The back of the tufted sofa is attached using a bar and clip assembly so it can be adjusted for minifigures with any hair style and they will still be able to fit on the sofa. The wingback chair, booth, desk chair, and bay window seat can all accommodate both Picory and Finch's hair pieces. The drafting desk includes an inkwell, a quill and a drafting compass that can be clipped to the top of the desk to prevent the compass from moving.

⦁ There are many types of decorative light sources throughout the home using a mix of candles, lighting fixtures, and fireplaces. All candles were built to be able to be held by a minifigure and moved around the home. There are also two chandeliers; one above the stairs and one above the nook.

⦁ There are two steampunk micro-builds in this set; an airship and a submarine.

⦁ The exterior has decorative pillars, wall arches, arched windows, 4 bay windows with decorative paneling, stained glass windows, yellow window glass, a wrap-around porch, pitched roofs, a turret, a unique shingled roof design, decorative railings on the first and second floors, 2 gables with decorative trim and windows, 3 finials, a brick-built weathervane, entry stairs, and a raised brick foundation with 3 vents.

⦁ There are orange and yellow flowers in the 2 flower beds, which includes: 5 small flowers, 2 medium flowers, and 2 large flowers. There are 4 magenta flowers attached to the windows of the wrap-around porch. The yard in front of the wrap-around porch has a brick-built bush and two bunnies burrowing into the flower beds.

⦁ Additional accessories include: a blue mineral for display on a parlor side table, 2 cups and a sand green kettle, sunflower and a vase, hat box and another box stored in the bedroom hideaway, and a green book with a printed tile inside that reads, "Once upon a time.”

The Victorian era not only had some beautiful architecture, but it was also a period of great inventions that were the precursors to products we still use today, including: the telephone, the light bulb, the horseless carriage, and many more. The nook features a wall mounted telephone based on the first telephone designs. Finch's horseless carriage is an homage to the early horseless carriage designs available at the time, but is steam powered instead of being powered by a standard combustion engine.

⦁ The horseless carriage features a hooded top. The overall shape is very much in keeping with the shape and wheels of a horse carriage.

⦁ The front features metallic slopes to give the appearance of a rudimentary hood design and to give it a more mechanical feel. There is also a hood ornament that is meant to look like a small version of Gherkin.

⦁ The back also features an oversized boiler and tanks with metallic elements to finish the mechanical look and differentiate the separate assemblies.

⦁ There is a lower and upper steam pipe assembly with brick-built steam puffs to show that the engine is running.

⦁ The interior features a steering wheel and bench style seating to provide enough room for both minifigures.

⦁ In the cabin, there is a central steam pipe, pressure gauge, and pressure lever.

⦁ There are side gates and tailgates on both sides of the back of the vehicle to hold the luggage. Accessories that fit inside the luggage are: 2 brick-built sandwiches, 1 bottle of water, 1 banana, 1 telescope, and 1 umbrella.

I originally designed this set for LEGO Ideas, which has a 3,000 piece part limit, but since the Bricklink Designer Program has a 4,000 piece limit instead, I was able to include as many details as I wanted and also incorporate more of a story into this build.

Please spread the word about this project so it has a chance of becoming a Bricklink Designer Program LEGO set!