Brick Days 2024 - Light Show

 

 Here are the pictures from the Saturday Night Light show.

Van Halen Playing on Saturday night

Here is the Space Outpost

Front Side Video

 

Back Side Video

 and humbled by the award for best lights.

Brick Days 2024 - The Event

This is the reason that things have been quiet here.  I was deeply engaged in getting ready for this event.  I have not been keeping up with the Blog while I spent time building out the display and checking out the connections.  So here are some of the pictures from Brick Days.

 

It was well attended and we always enjoy going here. LOLUG is just a great sponsor and they know how to put on a great show.

The Ice Castle.  All transparent bricks with lighting.

A working clock.

Micro architecture.  I am becoming fascinate with this technique and how it might be incorporated into the display.  I am thinking about some sort of alien life form that needs protection.

DC watch tower.

Original M-Tron Mega Core Magnetizer from the 1990's.  At over $350 each, there is some money here.

I found these 3-D mosaics to be more interesting than the typical mosaic.

More micro architecture.

Very detailed Bonsai type model.

The office.

A Star Wars beach scene.

This is a castle with a creek running along the side of it.  I was mostly interested in the creek and how this was modeled.  This is the type of terraforming that needs to happen on the plateau.  Except there is no water.

Someone else with a wounded warrior on a stretcher.  I also am interested in a smaller transport than the Starfleet Voyager I am using right now.

No glue, just amazing that he can move it.

USS South Dakota from WWII, done in a unique building technique.  

 

 

 

 

Brick Days 2024- Setup

 

Unloading boxes from the cart.  The clock starts, how long will it take.

All the boxes are in the hall.  Also they are stacked in groups of three.  The front module, the cliff module and the platform module behind the cliff.  Then they are arranged in the order that they will be assembled into the larger display.  This made setup go faster.

The first module.

The first slice of front module, cliff and platform.

Another view.

Cleaning up any damage from the trip.  With two days on the road and few unplanned quick stops, there is going to be some pieces that need some rebuilding.

The Starfleet Voyager waiting for a landing place.

More slices in place.

I connect power from the very beginning so that I know if there is a problem.  Assembling the whole display and then finding out there is an issue, would not be fun.  This time the very first cliff has a short in it somewhere.  There are only 4 LEDs, so there was limited trouble shooting I could do. 

Almost done.

Part of the terraforming was an exercise field.

Adding the detail to the floating platform.

 

 

And we are done with assembly.

 

Here is the detail.