So how do you build a Lego Town Plan city? (Part 3)
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In Parts 1 and 2 we detailed our 12 buildings we plan to build, inspired by either the flyer we found inside the Town Plan box or the stand-alone sets released in 1958.
We had a pretty complete idea of what our town was to include:
The White and Trans Apartments
The Hotel
The Tiny House
The Tiny House (curved roof)
The Cafe
The Kiosk
The Church (#309)
The Small Store (#210-2)
The ESSO Filling Station (#310)
The Fire Station (#308)
VW Dealer (#307)
Garage (#306)
We just needed another 3 or so buildings to complete the town, so we continue our seared for promotional material from the 1950s and 1960s to find inspiration...
Either a promotional flyer or a box set from the late 1960s illustrating the Garage. The tall red and white apartment building at the back took our fancy... These will be our thirteenth and fourteenth buildings - we'll call them garage no. 2 and the red and white apartments.
We are coming close to exhausting our options with stand-alone sets but we have came across some fabulous builds by a 1960s Lego collector at www.eurobricks.com:
A fabulous modernist building as part of a 1960s Lego collection - we were inspired to replicate the design (albeit at a smaller size).
We probably need a police station (doesn't every town?) - so we plan to adapt the Maersk building in the picture above to make our police station for building number 15
Finally, we the town needs some scale so we set about finding ideas for 3 larger-scale buildings that would site behind the baseboard in our display.
We really like the building in the centre of the cover from an expansion pack from 1955. We'll call it the 'Blue and white apartment building'.
An expansion Lego set c.1955
Here's the same box cover we found in colour
15. Blue and White Apartments (large)
We've come so far on our journey - perhaps we should find a way to show our Lego to the world. Where better than Brickvention in Melbourne in 2017? Perhaps we should consider including something inspired by the architectural landscape of Melbourne. We we might try to replicate this brilliant example of modernist Australian architecture. Those windows could be represented using white 2 x 2 windows:
The Sanitarium building in Warbuton, Victoria, Australia (image courtesy www.warburtonadventists.com/sanitarium)
For the final building, number 17 we'll use all the leftover pieces for a 'free-build'.
So our final list of buildings is:
The White and Trans Apartments
The Hotel
The Tiny House
The Tiny House (curved roof)
The Cafe
The Kiosk
The Church (#309)
The Small Store (#210-2)
The ESSO Filling Station (#310)
The Fire Station (#308)
VW Dealer (#307)
Garage (#236)
Garage number 2
Red and White Apartments
Police Station
Blue and White Apartments (large)
Sanitarium Building
Free-build
Here we are ready to build, the research part was complete, on to the fun part of building.
Just one problem... some sets had no instructions and the ones that did have instructions were quite rudimentary by today's standards. And our large-scale building we would have to build from scratch based on images. We had our work cut out for us but we were up for it!
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