Zonker's LEGO Models Page

First Thing: These pages are NOT sponsored or endorsed by the LEGO companies. They are the personal creation of an enthusiast of LEGO bricks. (The official LEGO home page is www.lego.com.)

Turn Table Round House Train Table Plans Engines Maintenance of Way LED Train Signals Wagons My Trains Page My Top Page

I have made a number of stock LEGO models, and the alternate models for most of them. My collection of parts came from more than 170 separate models (and I have duplicates of some of those). This gave me a wide variety of the speciality pieces, as well as a large number of LEGO people and animals, and plenty of bricks and plates.

I have pictures of some of the standard models I've built, as well as some independent designs. I hope to have the time to post more pictures here soon. My goal is to have a separate page for the Emergency Services vehicles.

I have also made a number of custom models. Most of these have been committed to their own pages. I made the pages at the request of others who had heard about the projects via email, and they wanted to see the pictures. (I actually had to make these pages during my vacation time, since work and volunteer projects take most of my spare time.) Here are links to the projects pages;

• Fire Station One - With three engine bays, two floors, a dispatch center, crew quarters, three-pad heliport, and three-story drill tower,was built over nearly a year.
• My Trains Page - Showing two of my own engine designs, and the new Big Project, a 5-bay working roundhouse, now in the design phase!
• The Marble Maze - What started as an attempt at making a Kinetic Sculpture turned into an an experiment using kinetic energy and momentum. (It uses pictures and some Gryphon BRICKS! illustrations with text instructions to explain why it works, and will have an MPEG movie of the marble running through the maze soon.)
• The Zamboni - A fun project, but a Bad Luck Charm ;-)
• The 'Claw' - Another experiment with LEGO special elements

My big projects can take months to build, because they depend on my having some spare time. Usually, the time for construction really comes when I'm busy, or stressed out, and I need a break from whatever I'm working on. My LEGOs are good therapy, because the construction on a project requires a lot of focus, which makes me ignore the other things for a while. When I've made some headway with the LEGO project, then I go back to the other work with a fresh mind.

Smaller projects usually start life as word-pictures (descriptive paragraphs) or drawings in a notebook, before they attain their form. Sometimes, though, the idea takes over my mind, simmering in my spare time, lingering in my conscious thought until I get to build it, and get it out of my mind. (The space bases usually 'take over my mind'.). Someday, I'll make a larger project of a Babylon 5-style diorama.

Copyright 1996-99, David K. Z. Harris, N6UOW
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