October 21, 2016October 23, 2016 Dulles Expo Center, 4320 Chantilly Shopping Center, Chantilly, VA 20151 The Log & Timber Home Show is pleased to be returning to Chantilly, VA on October 21-23, 2016. Bring your floor plans, your questions for our industry experts, and your dreams! Don’t miss the Chantilly, VA Log & Timber Home Show at the Dulles Expo Center on October 21-23, 2016. If you’re serious about educating yourself before you remodel or build your new, custom wood home, The Log and Timber Home Show is a “must do”. What you can see and do at a Log and Timber Home Show: Meet with builders, and log and timber home companies face to face to ask questions. Attend a Log and Timber Home University. (Find out more about the Log & Timber Home University by clicking here). Listen to informative workshops presented by experts. Meet the editors of Log Home Living, Cabin Living and Timber Home Living Magazine! Knowledge is POWER, attend a Log and Timber Home Show and leave with the information you need to build the custom wood home you want!
Dates: October 21-23, 2016 Friday, October 21: 1pm-7pm Saturday, October 22: 10am-6pm Sunday, October 23: 11am-4pm Chantilly, VA Workshop: Speaker Spotlight Justin Jankowski (Golden Eagle Log Homes) Want to learn the ABC’s of Buying a Log Home from someone with experience in the design industry? Then be sure to take part in Justin Jankowski’s daily FREE Workshops! With over 12 Years of Industry Experience, Justin can expertly cover the topics of Selecting, Buying, & Building a Log Home. With knowledge to share on Package Contents, Blueprints, & even Financing, Justin’s workshop is a must do at the Chantilly, VA Log & Timber Home Show. Click here to find out more about Justin & Golden Eagle Log Homes, Inc. Additional Daily Workshop Presentation Topics may include: Site work: Foundations & Basements Log/Timber Frame/Hybrid: What’s the Difference Construction Timeline: Start to Finish The Manufacturing Process of Log and Timber Homes
Handcrafted Log Homes (and more!) Click the Show Program Links to see a full list of daily Workshops at the Show: Want a deeper look into what it would take to build your dream home? You may want to consider the Chantilly, VA University Course held in conjunction with this Show on both Friday and Saturday. Chantilly, VA University Courses Friday, October 21: 1pm-5pm Saturday, October 22: 9am-1pm Regular Show Admission (Full weekend) $15 each online / $20 each at the door (18 and under are FREE) University Course Admission (Full weekend + University Course) $85 each / $119 couple / $25 each additional attendee beyond couple Exhibitor List (as of 10/17/2016) Coatings, Care & Maintenance, Restoration Structures Wood Care, Inc. Engineering & Architectural Design Passanante's Home Food Services Kitchen & Bath Products/Remodeling Mid Atlantic Bath Solutions 1867 Confederation Log Homes Blue Ridge Log Cabins
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general rule to keep in mind for making LEGO buildings (and anything that is designed to look man-made) is symmetry. Color choice can also contribute to the desired effect. Dark-gray looks bleak and bare. Yellow, blue, and green look bright and happy. Tan, white, light-gray, and other lighter pastel colors look more normal in a city setting. To make the topic of LEGO buildings a bit easier to handle, let’s divide it up into ancient buildings (middle ages and previous), modern buildings, and futuristic/fantasy buildings. ➡ ANCIENT LEGO BUILDINGS: Castles, pyramids, cottages, stone houses, and maybe a few older things like ziggurats and ancient statues are some of the main types of constructions that fall under this category. Most of these type of buildings use stone as a building material. For castles, long walls, and other large stone structures, adding subtle texture or color variations at random intervals can help break up the monotony of a plain gray wall. Do be careful though, it’s possible to overdo it! U
sing just a touch of dark-gray in a light-gray wall can liven things up. Or, if you prefer sticking with the same color, a few round 1×1 plates add an interesting texture variation. In fact, for a LEGO stone house or foundation, using just 1×1 rounds (as in the example below by Derfel Cadarn) creates a very nice effect. Cottages are usually fairly small, mainly white, tan, or some other light color, with brown or black around the corners. A sideways strip of brown across the wall adds to the general effect. Roofs can be made using LEGO SNOT (Studs-Not-On-Top) techniques with log-bricks or LEGO plates attached sideways. Height variation helps with the plates especially. Yet a third type of house can be built using logs, either sideways to create a log cabin, or upright. This kind of wall works better for an interior than an exterior scene. There are plenty of examples of these types of buildings; Orðlokarr Castle by Mark of Falworth, Friends in Low Places by Gary^The^Procrastinator, Granovian Seaport by Sir Edwin, Recruiting Office by Robert4168, and Ras-el-Jabar by Fianat. B
elow is an example by Moriartus that uses quite a lot of LEGO cheese-slopes! 😀 ➡ MODERN LEGO BUILDINGS: Most modern buildings are huge compared to a person. However, this isn’t always feasible for a LEGO minifigure – imagine making an exact replica of your house at minifigure-scale and you’ll see why! Even the LEGO Modular Buildings – such as the Grand Emporium – aren’t quite the right size (most supermarket roofs are at least three times average height of a person!). Still, for a minifigure, 6-11 bricks high is plenty to make a building look fairly realistic. Usually modern buildings (especially stores) concentrate most of the detail on the front. A house is generally fairly plain but does have lots of texture – so try to keep that in mind while building. Larger buildings can have plenty of flat walls on the sides without looking plain. I myself don’t build modern buildings that often, but below is an example by kjw010. ➡ FUTURISTIC/FANTASY LEGO BUILDINGS: Futuristic buildings usually have lots of neon lights and detailed little bits, levers, grills, and pieces like that. Ty
pically there’s not a whole lot of plain space on this kind of building. Fantasy buildings, on the other hand, can be virtually any shape, color, or size you can think of! This article contains excellent examples, but only your imagination is the limit here! Other examples of unique (and sometimes unrealistic) buildings include, Twin Towers by LL, Skyholm – The Flying City by Fianat, Above the Clouds by Cara lego, and the one below by Nannan Z. ➡ LEGO VEHICLES: Vehicles range from huge ocean-liners to little get-around cars to ancient chariots, so we’ll just get to touch on the most basic points here. Modern vehicles usually have quite a few details, as well as a nice sleek metallic look, which can be tough to recreate with studded LEGO bricks! As we discussed in the buildings section above, most minifigure sized LEGO creations aren’t quite to scale, and the same applies to vehicles – so keep that in mind while building. I don’t have much experience building these type of vehicles, so I don’t have many tips to share, but a few examples that might get your creative juices going are Jeep Wrangler: 2.0 Edition by .Br
icko, Ford Taunus 17m deLuxe by mijasper, CVF-104 by 4estfeller, and a highly unique Friends Butterfly Campervan by kjw010. Medieval style carts, wagons, and chariots were typically made out of wood with a minimum of metal. Steampunk vehicles also look good with brown but include lots of gears and golden details. Futuristic vehicles, on the other hand, are predominantly gray (in most cases) and have lots of detailed bits and pieces, including levers, grills, clips, and steering wheels. Below is an example of a futuristic SHIP (Seriously-Huge-Investment-in-Parts) my brother and I built: So these are just some basic tips to get you started on LEGO buildings and LEGO vehicles, and will hopefully give you some inspiration and ideas. How about you? Do you have any tips to share? Where do you get inspiration for your LEGO creations? Do you prefer a certain time period? Do you tend to build really large scale or prefer smaller creations? Feel free to share your thoughts and discuss in the comment section below! 😉