Made display base for pirate Ship.
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All the Lego people should love this! It captures the right mood.
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What a great job you did on that! So much better that a basic rack and label.
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Awesome!!! We have played pirates with legos many times with our grandson. I’ll have to show this to him, as he will really appreciate it!
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Well shiver me timbers…looks great ! Nice colors!
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Love it. Well done
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Arrr that’s a mighty fine project
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Nice painting job on this too!
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Wow, this is fun! It looks fantastic. I’d love to know more about your painting process.
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What a great project! My grands would love this. What CAD program did you use to create the drawing files??
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This looks amazing. My grandsons would love that!
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I drew it out on paper then cleaned up artwork on iPad
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Being a huge LEGO fan (okay, not a huge fan, I’ll admit I’m addicted, we have 153 kits so far, with more we want to buy), I think this is great! I did something similar making a platform for the Orient Express. I love combining GF with LEGO!
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Have you wired them for lights? Brixsmax make LED wiring kits for a lot of Lego sets.
Here’s what the Sherlock Holmes booknook looks like with lights.
Most of the wires get completely hidden and the lights can be powered either via a battery pack or a USB wall wart.
You add the lights after the build by selectively deconstructing and replacing bricks. All of the original functionality of the model continue to function (like the revolving book display, Moriarty’s rising door, balcony opening, etc
They’re not terribly expensive and they add a fair bit of flair to the models if you’re leaving hem assembled for display.
Some models, like Barad Dur really need lights - what’s the tower without a glowing Sauron’s eye? 
(BTW, yes there’s a light out on the left half but that’s because I didn’t have a wire clipped in correctly and I didn’t notice it until after the photo - I fixed it 
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The lights bring the buildings to life. Makes a huge difference.
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the lights are amazing.
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I’m not showing this to the grandchildren!! They wouldn’t dismantle anything going forward.
Looks amazing!
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We haven’t lit any of ours yet. We did buy a couple light sets, one for the Eiffel Tower (which we ended up not buying because of no place to put it, but still have the light set) and one for the Disney Castle, but we thought we could do it as we built, and just got so confused we didn’t do it. We do still have the lights for it too. Maybe someday. I always love looking at the lighted sets I see, and it would be great to do all the city buildings we have. We do keep all of our sets displayed. (This is just one set of shelves. We have another set that has our medieval villages on it, and a few smaller bookcases and other small tables.)
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I thought about that for the Barad Dur set since I bought the lights before starting the build but after doing the Holmes booknook, I figured out they’re designed to be done after the base build is complete. It’s too hard to reference where things go if the model isn’t already built and routing wires often require different build sections to be done so they route correctly. It is a bit unsettling to have to take pieces apart to do the lighting but it’s not a lot of pieces and you’re putting it back together pretty quickly so it’s hard to muck it up seriously.
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