HOLIDAY ARBOR and LIGHTS - Custom Building Kit Instructions

Above: The Brick Trick Dude HOLIDAY ARBOR and LIGHTS custom building kit shown assembled with s female minifigure we named Noelle.

Below: The same kit with a male minifigure we named Nicholas. 

HOLIDAY ARBOR and LIGHTS - Custom Building Kit Instructions

This posting features images and instructions to build this custom created kit.

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Below: Parts included in the HOLIDAY ARBOR and LIGHTS Custom Building Kit

PARTS LIST
3 green 3x4 leaf parts
1 green 4x8 plate

9 red trans. 1x1 caps

2 green trans. 1x1 caps

2 medium blue trans. 1x1 caps

2 yellow trans. 1x1 caps

2 red 2x2 flowers
2 lime 1x1 caps
4 green bamboo leaf parts

4 red 2x2 tiles

8 dark gray 1x1 bricks

9 white 1x1 plates with grabber

1 white rope w/9 bars, end caps
2 white 1x2 tiles

1 clear transparent 1x2 plate
1 light gray 1x2x6 arch brick
8 green trans. 1x1 plates

Step 1: Add red 2x2 tiles to green 4x8 plate.  Place red transparent 1x1 caps on green leaf parts as shown.  Place lime 1x1 caps on red 2x2 flowers, then create 2 stacks of 2 bamboo leaf parts.  Top leaf stacks with red flowers.  Add clear 1x2 plate and white 1x2 tiles to top of light gray 1x2x6 arch brick.  Alternately stack dark gray 1x1 bricks and green transparent 1x1 plates to build archway posts.

Step 2: Add posts and archway to green 4x8 plate.  

Step 3: Attach 2 green leaf parts with red transparent 1x1 caps to pegs on clear 1x2 plate as shown.  Add remaining green leaf to peg of right leaf, facing to front.  Place flowers on pegs of the green 4x8 plate on either side of red tile walkway.

Step 4:  Create the holiday string of lights by inserting red, yellow, green and medium blue transparent 1x1 caps into white 1x1 plates with grabber.  Attach grabbers to rods on white rope with end caps.  Light string can be placed in minifigure hands using end caps and/or rods.

Flower Garden and Purple Bench Custom Kit Instructions

Above: The Flower Garden and Purple Bench Custom Kit shown assembled.

Flower Garden and Purple Bench Custom Kit - Building Instructions

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Below: Parts included in the custom kit.

Parts List:

1 dark green 4x8 plate

1 medium lavender 2x6 plate
2 dark purple 1x2 bricks

1 tan 1x6 brick

2 red transparent 1x1 tiles

2 lime 1x2 tiles

1 white 1x4 picket fence

4 dark purple 1x1 bricks

1 red 2x2 flower
1 yellow 2x2 flower

1 orange 1x1 cap
1 lime 1x1 cap
3 green bamboo leaf parts
GAL PAL Minifigure “Melissa” arrives assembled.

1 bright light yellow wig

1 female head w/eyebrows, pink lipstick

1 stars printed torso

1 orange hips/legs

Step 1: Add tan 1x6 brick to dark green 4x8 plate as shown.  Add lime 1x2 tiles on dark green 4x8 plate at front.  Form bench by adding 2x6 plate to 1x2 bricks. Create 2 stacks of 2 dark purple 1x1 bricks and top with red transparent 1x1 tiles.  Place lime and orange 1x1 caps on red and yellow 2x2 flowers as shown.  Stack 2 bamboo leaf parts.  Add 2x2 flowers with caps to leaf parts. 

Step 2: Add purple posts and white picket fence to tan 1x6 brick.

Step 3: Add bench as shown.

Step 4: Add 2x2 flowers and leaf parts to layout as shown.

Above: Kit shown assembled.

Above: Kit shown from back side.

2013 Row House Series

Above: Classic mid-century row houses in San Francisco built from plastic bricks.

2013 SAN FRANCISCO ROW HOUSE SERIES

This series of 35 row houses was built by BrickTrick artist Philip Buchan.  The series mimics homes built from the late nineteen forties through the early nineteen fifties throughout several neighborhoods in San Francisco.  The structures in this collection were patterned after homes in the Miraloma Park neighborhood on the side of Mount Davidson.

Above: Many row houses features stairways to a second floor entry.

Above: Detail close-up.

Above: Some row houses are painted in bright and bold color schemes.

Above: Some row houses have first floor entries.

Above: Some row houses have a more sleek and "modern" appearance to the architecture.

Above: Many row houses feature archways over doorways and garages.

Above: Some row houses with first floor entries have a small covered porch.

Above: It's not uncommon to see a first floor entry next door to a second floor entry.

Above: Beige is banished in this bold color scheme.

Above: More variations of row house architecture.

Above: Some row houses employ more traditional architectural elements and appear more European or Mediterranean in style.

WINTER VILLAGE

Above: The Brick Trick version of a WINTER VILLAGE.

WINTER VILLAGE

We set-up this WINTER VILLAGE scene on the dining room table for the holidays.  We just took it down last week, to make room for some new SPRING brick building projects.

Before we disassembled the structures, we snapped a few pictures.

The medium blue building is a kit from the brick manufacturer, the remainder of the items were designed and built by Brick Trick artists Philip and Mitch.

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Above: The right side of the display.

Above: The left side of the display.

Above: Ice skating on a frozen pond is at the center of the display.

Above: Close-up of ice skaters.

Above: Buildings from the Brick Trick WINTER VILLAGE.

Above: The building on the left is the woodshed, and the center building is the cottage that were part of a kit from the brick manufacturer.  The building on the right was designed to match these structures and serves as a candy store.

Above: The sand-green cottage.

Above: The CANDY STORE.

Above: The light yellow bakery building.

Above: The interior of the bakery.  Many of the buildings were built "dollhouse" style with no back wall.

Above: The dark pink cottage.

Above: The dark purple cottage.

Above: The "Swiss Chalet".

Above: Another view of the entire WINTER VILLAGE.