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Steel City LUG’s first ever convention
A serious question – are we considering the Ultimate Brick Show “our” convention? Yes it is here in Pittsburgh, but so are other events which we attend. I was viewing UBS as another show run by others that we were attending.
Edit: I see this statement by Krista in the Ultimate Brick Show thread: “I was told that this is essentially our show under their banner.” So that answers my question about that.
What kind of person would put their name on a vanity plate, anyway?
Yeah, that John Sauder guy is a real egomaniac. 😀
(I know that’s the plate holder; I just couldn’t resist making a bad joke.)
Is anyone considering attending Bricks in the Six this November? Unfortunately it is the same weekend as the Monroeville show. Jacob and I are strongly considering going to BITS again (he has friends that attend college in the Toronto area) as it was quite enjoyable, and I think we will have plenty of coverage in Monroeville. The only downside is that it is way more expensive to travel than to stay home. :-p
BITS does have a $15 discount if registered by April 30. The exchange rate remains favorable so the registration is less than $70 US dollars.
@dwgrier that is Awesome! A perfect MOC for this display. We will put that right up front.
One additional thought regarding installation – the first items to go in should be anything hanging. So @tbrown00 your butterflies, etc. first so that you don’t need to try to maneuver around anything already on the floor of the case.
Yes, you would not want to use Hoth plates if you need them for Brickfair. Tear down will be middle of August, exact date TBD.
OK, I forgot about the Mars festival on June 6-7. We could set up on May 31 before the meeting. But I think doing it during the week will be our best option. The Library is open M-Th until 8 pm and 5 pm on Fridays.
I am not available the week of May 26-30 but would be available the following week June 2-6. We could install over a few evenings as well.
@argonvesher you could build some type of white landscaping (maybe even using some of the Hoth baseplates). Or we could just lay down loose white bricks and then install the individual builds around that (and other colors of loose bricks).It looks like Saturday, May 31 is going to be the Q2 LUG meeting. Does the following Saturday, June 7 a good date for everyone for the installation of the Display?
ton of white brick
We could also use that to pull everything together – a white base with color exploding out of various areas. @argonvesher plan on bringing the white brick!
@bengood921, that looks good. Two full tables is probably a little bit more than I would actually need but (i) I can bring more to fill the space or (ii) cede any extra to @jrbookworm for his HP buildings.
Done. For anyone wondering, it takes about 5 minutes, so very easy to do.
It was interesting that they wanted to know the LUG/Group affiliation even though the survey is anonymous.
Sounds good. Thanks @rcgrier3406
Assuming we go for this again this year, couple of things I’d like to put out there for consideration from a MILS bases standpoint:
[snip] While the LBG plates look OK in the rail yard, they stand out as different in the rest of the layout, so I’d propose changing them all to green. I did a rough count, and we would need approximately (1,200) 4×4 green plates to do this.
[snip] For 2025 I’d propose adding more RC Double Straights. Because of the (250)/item quantity minimum that Project Support has, we already have approximately (100) 5″ segments of RC straight track left over from the 2024 Project Support order. Each 32×32 Double Straight uses (4) of these, so we already have enough track for up to (25) more RC Double Straights.
This all sounds good to me. If we are building more track, do we also need more 1×1 and 1×4 reddish-brown tiles (for the ties)?
Madison Brown has almost every single Botanical and would jump at the chance to put them on display. So it really comes down to how much space we are wanting to devote to them.
@tbrown00 my white building is 31×31 studs so we could pack a good amount of flowers on top of that. So I will reserve the blue space to the left of Space #6 on your chart.
There are something like 45 different colors in quantities that range from 400 to 600 per color.
@rcgrier3406 that sounds perfect!
Does anyone have a large(r) botanical set for this display? I have a large white building (it rarely gets display time but it shows up in this picture – https://www.flickr.com/photos/41914153@N03/14940048913/in/dateposted-public/ ) which would make a nice pedestal for flowers and serve as a centerpiece for the entire display.
@joshhall what color bricks does the LUG have in decent quantity?Is there any video of the Bridge working? As I was unable to staff and shifts, I have yet to see it in action.
Now that Home & Garden is over, I am bumping this thread to move this along. We’ve got just over two months until installation.
It seems like the “cube” idea is floundering so I think we can take that off the table. I think if we have a nice mix of Colorful builds and Black & White/Grayscale builds, it will turn out great. One other thought I had is that we could have rivers/pools of color (i.e. bricks just laid out on the floor in color groups), encircling all of the various builds.
Please post here any space requirements so we have enough floorspace and also post what you are building so we know that we will have enough to fill the case!
Thank you, @watchwmarcella. He has been discharged and is recovering at home. I will there for teardown on Sunday. Does anyone have an ETA on when we can get onto the floor with cars?
waiting on the playoff schedule for our grandson’s hockey team this weekend, and they play Saturday morning down in Mt. Lebanon
Good luck to the Hornets this weekend!
@argonvesher @thoga1109 I am so sorry but I have had a family emergency come up this weekend (my dad was admitted to the hospital). It is not super serious at this point but it will prevent me from staffing tomorrow (Monday). I have removed myself from the staffing for Monday.
@kacierno @watchwmarcella at this point I am hoping to still be able to staff on Wednesday with you but I will not know for certain until later. I will let you know.If anyone was thinking of picking up a shift and could cover Monday and/or Wednesday that would be great as only two people (the minimum) are now on for tomorrow (and possibly Wednesday).
Again I am so sorry for the last minute notice. I feel horrible.
On the plus side, the display looks amazing and it sounds like everything went well the first several days.
all LOTR stuff. My bad guys outnumber the good guys 2 to 1
The Rohirrim were even more outnumbered at Helm’s Deep, so 2 to 1 doesn’t seem that bad.
Love the skyscrapers. Missed them last year so happy to see them return. XD
Thank you! The Keenan Building (Midtown Towers apartment) – the one with the red dome – is new for this year. I built it over the past 3 weeks. It is the first of several “mid-tier” skyscrapers I plan to build, the others currently being the Benedum-Trees Building at 223 Fourth Avenue and the Arrott Building at 405 Wood Street. I think these scale well with the larger Gulf and K&L Gates buildings.
we have to wear the badge as given to us in our goodie bag and absolutely nothing else with it. So you can’t wear your old convention bricks, or your Steel City LUG brick, or your Brick Circuits brick that lights up, or your custom-engraved private joke bricks, or your black & yellow name and city bricks.
I do not see where there would be any prohibition in wearing a completely separate badge (i.e. the official convention badge on the left side and a personal badge on the right side) so long as there is no confusion with security in identifying the current badge. We’ll see if my interpretation is correct.
