Well folks, this one has been in the works for awhile now...mostly because I didn't have a roof, but that's been solved now as you can see. A couple blocks away from where I live is a building that was a high school ages ago, and I've always thought it was a really cool building.

Because the NMRA show encourages people to build landmarks from their area, I thought it would be great to model that building...but I ran into problems. The first problem I encountered was that I apparently had fewer narrow red bricks that I thought I had, so adding another story was out of the question. Then I found out I didn't have very many windows, but fortunate for me, a Toys 'R' Us was going out of business and had 3 Doc Ock sets for 50% off. The windows in those sets worked great! Then I had a lack of black slopes and had to wait 2 months before I could order a bunch from Lego Direct. Also, the shape of the roof is slightly different from that of the original and doesn't have the "ornate" brick work going around it. I did this since, a. I didn't have enough red to do the job, and b. I certainly didn't have enough of the inverted corner slopes to get the shape of the roof either.

In the future, I would really like to make a nearly identical copy of that building. As it stands now, I still want to get a flag pole and bike rack in before the show. In the mean time, I hope you like what I've come up with so far!