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 Posted - March 31 2015 : 3:32:05 PM
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What do you get when you combine a Life-like convenience store, a Smalltown Vicky's Department store, sheet and structure plastic, Legos and top with a large scale Plasticville radio station? With some work and imagination, the below tower. Also with it is a Krispy Kreme donut shop made from left over parts.   
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Posted - March 31 2015 : 3:33:46 PM
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Fantastic kitbash Gary!
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Posted - March 31 2015 : 5:50:14 PM
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Thanks for posting this. As you observed, we've mostly been posting our car and locomotive kitbashes here, and I think it's high time we thought of buildings in this context too. Maybe some of your ambitious building products will get the marbles rolling around in the rest of our heads and strike a nerve. 
In this age of rising kit prices, it's great to see how some of these old buildings can morph into bigger and better things. 
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Posted - March 31 2015 : 7:16:03 PM
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the "biggest" building we usually get is the Life-Like hotel with ROOMS on the top
but yikes your layout is uber cool 
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Posted - March 31 2015 : 8:46:38 PM
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Thanks guys. Any mental stimulation I can provide is all yours. Life-Like Hotel? Like I bashed a couple into The First National Bank? Never could get it all to fit right. FYI, the fancy cornices are interior moldings for doll houses. Never leave a Hobby shop without looking all around.  If this picture went one more building to the left you would see that ROOMS sign put to use also.
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Posted - April 01 2015 : 5:29:52 PM
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You've built some really great looking structures! I love the overall feel of the layout. Out of curiousity do you start all of your builds with unassembled kits or have you salvaged previously assembled buildings? I recently bought some cheap, assembled kits hoping to modify them for my needs, but the glue combined with fragile plastic makes them a nightmare to work with. 
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Posted - April 01 2015 : 5:42:41 PM
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Man, if you hadn't listed the parts you used for that project, I'd have thought it was a
manufactured kit. Fantastic job on the kit bash....
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Posted - April 01 2015 : 6:30:02 PM
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Thanks again guys. Yes I do sometimes use salvaged builds. It can be a challenge dealing with the old glue joints. Sometimes I just work around them. Other times I take them apart if possible. The radio station on top of the highrise was in fact a salvaged item.
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Posted - April 01 2015 : 7:27:01 PM
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I knows what the city streets need!
a trolleycar line! 
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Posted - April 01 2015 : 8:12:39 PM
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quote:What do you get when you combine a Life-like convenience store, a Smalltown Vicky's Department store, sheet and structure plastic, Legos and top with a large scale Plasticville radio station? With some work and imagination, the below tower.
Originally posted by Gary BÂ -Â March 31 2015Â :Â 3:32:05 PM
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Okay, I'll bite. LEGOS? I think that's a first for HO scale! But WHERE are they? I cannot see them!
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Posted - April 01 2015 : 8:18:54 PM
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Yes, it needs a trolley. Another unfinished project but it's in a town at the opposite end of the layout. If I ever completed it will be on an elevated line against the wall in the first two photos of this thread. I built the station but haven't added in the section.  
Well the easiest Legos to see are the solid tower section to the left. There is also an interior structure built out them and plastic floors. The original kit appeared way too empty as was.
I've seen a massive station one club has that is all Legos and I can't see them myself. So no first in HO with mine.
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Edited by - Gary B on April 01 2015 8:24:40 PM
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