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| Vending Machine |
To add to my city buildings, I have decided to include some smaller creations which are also essential to make a lego town look realistic. I thought about every day things such as vending machines, bins, public parks or benches. On today`s post I am going to reveal the most detailed and the ones which I think are the best.
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| Payphone |
To start off I will present the one I am most proud of. This vending machine also incudes a coffee machine at its side and was made with no big planning ahead. I simply started building and I got this as a result (picture above). The pieces representing the glass is a normal sized door with a blue transparent piece atachable in both sides and the floor consists in dark grey 4x1 and 2x1 tiles. On the other side, the coffee machine was based on the one in the set 3182 and 8404 but I added some extra details as the coffee mug at the top.
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| Recycling bins |
The second chosen model was the Payphone. I was rather lucky to have the perfect piece to represent the phone dial; it was an old brick from my dad´s collection and the rest is quite easy to find in my opinion. For the money entrance I decided to use the same brick as for the vending machine and now that I think the phone could also be tricky to find.
Finally, my last candidate was the recycling bin. As you might have noticed, the bins didn´t require as much bricks as the other creations - or at least without the floor. I just had those bin bricks and the only thing I added were the colors to show which type of waste the bin is for. You might have also noticed that I included a coin on the landscape. I usually like to put money on the city floor and more frequently than in a real town.
I am also going to dedicate a paragraph to the minifigure as I have chosen carefully the combination. All parts of this figure are from a different set or series; the hair piece is from the ultra agents set 70164, the face is from the latest series (16) from number 15, the polo shirt is from the simpson series from number eight and the trousers are from the series 12 from number 10. My favourite part of this minifigure are the trousers because of the amazing and rare details. They originally come from the woman with the bow and are perfect for almost any lego figure.
Of course, the objects aren`t perfect and there are some things that could be improved for next time. If we look closely to the vending machine we realize that the money hole is quite high compared with the minifigure and if I move it one stud down it would be much better. Now looking at the Payphone, I could also try to add a rope to represent the cable... or else the phone would be stolen!
So those are my three city utilities which you can also try and build. Some require a little above ten bricks and the vending machine would need over fifty.
Enjoy!
