[Smeghead]

That's some crafty SNOT work there.

[kurisu7885]

Not a problem Alex, I kinda confess with all the crossovers they promised as well as seeing Back To The Future and Wizard of Oz in Lego form it gave me hope we might see Peter and the boys in the game.

[Alex Newborn]

That's some crafty SNOT work there.

I had to look up the acronym to understand what you meant. Yeah, Michael's desk for Janine is very clever in the way he turned the pieces.

I had two places in the Firehouse basement where I turned small assemblies so the Studs were Not On Top. Neither one of them uses a bracket or other 90-degree piece to hold them in place.

The curved section underneath the opening hatch of the ECU is rotated 180 degrees. It slides into place so that one upside-down tile rests atop a right-side-up tile, with the surrounding opening holding it in place by friction. I actually figured this out in a hand-drawn sketch, then tested it with a mockup made of wrong-color bricks, then ordered the parts I needed in the correct colors.

The breaker box (with the knife handle that Con Ed turns off) is similarly turned 90 degrees and slides into the wall through a just-big-enough rectangular opening.



Handlebar pieces lock it into place on the rear, while the switch and other protruding details hold it in place in the front.

That was another case of having the idea, but being unable to test it in LDD, so I made a mockup of whatever color bricks were lying around to check my buried memories from childhood of how many plates equal the width of a brick, etc.

Alex

[Smeghead]

You had to look up what SNOT means? Call yourself an AFOL?
As you say, the secret of good SNOT is remembering that 5 plates = 2 studs. As long as you stick to a multiple of that ratio, anything you turn sideways should fit with no gaps.

(A good guide to using bricks in weird ways can be found here if anyone needs some inspiration.)

[kurisu7885]

You had to look up what SNOT means? Call yourself an AFOL?
As you say, the secret of good SNOT is remembering that 5 plates = 2 studs. As long as you stick to a multiple of that ratio, anything you turn sideways should fit with no gaps.

(A good guide to using bricks in weird ways can be found here if anyone needs some inspiration.)

Just for reference, as I recall SNOT means Studs Not On Top.

[Michael Scott]

I honestly had no intention of being a copycat, but today we went to the Lego store and the pick a brick section had the bricks for the basement walls, so I couldn't help but buy a bunch, plus I already had a containment unit, so I figured it would be fun. Alex's build was a huge inspiration, and I borrow a few of his ideas, but I'd like to think my version isn't a direct plagiarization. It is a bit smaller (16 x 20 stud base, 9 bricks high), and most of the wall units were built using different elements. Hopefully this again serves as a good comparison and lends ideas to others who might feel like tackling a similar project.

That being said I was a bit limited on bricks I had to use in varying sizes. I had enough 2 x 2s to go a bit bigger, but the 1 x 1 and 2 x 1 bricks were more scarce. I didn't map it out beforehand or even during the build, I just went for it and made lots of adjustments along the way.

Here's the "Tell him about the Twinkie" scene.



Side view.



Other side.



Diagonal view without minifigures blocking it, no pun intended.



I also borrowed Alex's shelving ladder idea, but didn't include it in the pictures.

[Alex Newborn]

I already hit like to this on Facebook, but it's great seeing the additional angles.

I myself borrowed the shelving ladder design from OrionPax's firehouse, so I can't take credit for it.

I know I've been quiet about GB Lego stuff lately. I've got another scene mostly built, just been too busy with a writing assignment to finish and photograph it. Hopefully soon.

In the meantime, since you guys liked all my other Lego 'Busters, I thought you might get a kick out of these guys.



Alex

[Jake LeRoy]

Haha love me some myth busters!

[PrometheanWorks]

Totally, totally loving this thread.

A small, non-canonical contribution: Ecto-5a (Ecto-M)

[Michael Scott]

Cool bike. Makes me want to build the motorized unicycle with the sidecar from RGB.

[Michael Scott]

I can't stop editing my basement. I smoothed out the top of the walls, took the walls down by one brick, re-did the column next to the wall, and loaded up my storage rack with gear. Beyond that I decided to put in a removable corner pillar and "ceiling/roof." It still has a hole in the top, so I use those terms loosely. I'm really happy how this turned out given that I exhausted our inventory of "sand" colored elements.

Here's Pete letting the guys know they just got a visit from the EPA.

[kurisu7885]

Ladders to make industrial shelves, a stroke of brilliance.

[Alex Newborn]

Ladders and droid arms, nice variation!

So, my wife and I are debating on the best color for GB1 Janine's hair.

What do you folks think? Black or reddish brown?



Alex

[kurisu7885]

Reddish brown seems closer.

[Jake LeRoy]

I'd say reddish brown also.

[Alex Newborn]

Purely by happenstance, I built this scene today, and now my friend Dillon just reminded me it's National Secretary's Day, so I had to hurry up and take a wide shot.



Alex

[Michael Scott]

I love the engine bay walls.

For her hair, better to be too red than not red at all. I went with an orange/brown color and different style. I just ordered a flesh tone head.



I plan on using the black spiked hair on my Vinz Clortho version of Louis.

[Alex Newborn]

The reddish brown hair was a fluke. I ordered a dark brown spiked hair for possessed Louis, but they sent me the r.b. by mistake. I contacted them and they said they were out of dark brown. I opted for a partial refund and kept the r.b. because I knew if I returned it, I'd just find a use for it. Which, now I have.

The black version is the one that BrickinIt uses for Gozer, but I figure they're never seen alongside one another.

I did finally find a dark brown one for Louis, but they're hard to come by.

Alex

[Grimmy GB]

How the crap am I just now seeing this thread? This is AMAZING! You can seriously almost construct the entire movie sequences with all that you have o0

[Jake LeRoy]

Purely by happenstance, I built this scene today, and now my friend Dillon just reminded me it's National Secretary's Day, so I had to hurry up and take a wide shot.



Alex

Alex if some one ask me if your a Lego god I'll say YES!!!!!!

Just love this one! How long did it take to build this beautiful creation?

[Alex Newborn]

I just ordered a flesh tone head.

Meant to comment on this earlier. For my Janine, I'm using Dr. Harleen Quinzel. Fleshtone skin, glasses, a nice know-it-all smirk.



Only down side is making sure her wig covers the white Harley Quinn face paint in the back. I suppose I could Brasso off the other face. Shrug.

Here's a pic of Gozer, Janine, and Louis with three different colors of the same hair sculpt.

How the crap am I just now seeing this thread? This is AMAZING! You can seriously almost construct the entire movie sequences with all that you have o0

IKR? That's what I've been saying!

I discovered I had more white bricks than I'd realized, so I built an additional wall to go behind Peter's office, which as of yesterday was just a free-standing brown wall.



(Note that you can see Peck's other Obi-Wan face beneath his wig, and a hint of Harley under Janine's.)

I had *just enough* white and green plates to do the wall stripe at either side, but if you see it from the opposite end, the stripe does not go behind the brown.



I was able to use white bricks that were longer than 1x2 in the obscured section, so there are 1x3s, 1x4s, 1x6s and 1x8s hidden back there. That left me just enough 1x2s to go above the brown and give the illusion the entire wall was uniform.

I've got a plan for some additional details for Peter's office, Janine's desk, etc. so this scene is still a work in progress. If you have suggestions, don't hesitate.

Alex

[Jake LeRoy]

Well it's already super awesome Alex! But what about adding the Gbs lockers that they kept there uniforms in and of course a fire pole!

[Alex Newborn]

what about adding the Gbs lockers that they kept there uniforms in and of course a fire pole!

I'd thought of poles, but hadn't thought of the lockers, good one. And I want to make a coffee pot for Janine. I think in the movie it's on the same wall with the lockers.

Oh, one funny thing I forgot to mention above. I was making that wall section behind the brown office wall, and it was odd-numbered. I kept running out of 1x3s and 1x1s. I was even leaving 1x1 mouseholes in it. I stared at my pile of even-numbered bricks and wished they made 1x5s and 1x7s... and then I had the DUH moment.

I cracked the entire back wall up off the baseplate from where I'd arbitrarily placed it when I started, shifted it one stud further back, and needed only even-numbered bricks after that.

Alex

[Jake LeRoy]

All I can say is Lego needs to offer you a job lol!

After I'm finished with my custom Kenner ecto I'm tackling this!

Also have you thought about tackling the rooftop scene?

[Alex Newborn]

By the way, another rule of Legos is that everything is recyclable. I sometimes build a test version with parts in the wrong colors, just out of whatever's on hand. Case in point, I made gray mockups of the slimeblowers before all the silver and black pieces arrived.



When the correct colors came in, I just threw the gray prototypes in a ziploc bag and forgot them. But while I was making Venkman's office, I thought "in the movie there's a telescope somewhere around here, I wonder what I could use..." and my brain instantly flashed on the slimeblowers. A minor adjustment and voila, instant telescope.



The fertility idol was also something I had bought for another purpose. I was dressing the PV office and thought, "okay, here on the desk he's got a gargoyle, what have I got that looks like a... oh, perfect!"

Alex if some one ask me if your a Lego god I'll say YES!!!!!!

Just love this one! How long did it take to build this beautiful creation?

Hmmm. Not sure... everything has been done in sections, so it's hard to calculate.

The Janine desk pieces arrived about three weeks ago. I posted a pic of the desk then, but held the rails and Peter's desk in reserve until the whole scene was finished.

This may be interesting to see the little nuances I've made. I was waiting for the handset for the phone to arrive when I snapped this one.



I've actually built her printer and computer tower twice. Once in all-white, to match the monitor and keyboard, and once in light bluish gray, which was my preference because it gives the white piece of 'paper' more contrast. I looked for the computer pieces in lbg, but only found them in white and dark bluish gray.



That frog on her desk is the only thing I found with an odd organic shape to portray her whale. If you guys think of a better brick for this, let me know.



My initial order for engine bay walls arrived, and I built them in an hour or two of monotony, only to discover they were way too short. The Ecto towered over them, as did my basement scene's walls. Although I'd worked out how many plates and tiles I'd need just to make this big L-shaped wall, they just didn't look right on a shelf together with the car or the other set. So I placed an order for even more white 1x2 bricks.

Almost simultaneously, I saw Michael Scott's pic of his GB1 Janine with the Librarian torso, and had to go find a supplier, then wait for it to arrive.

Somewhere in there I saw OrionPax's recipe for the walls behind Venkman's desk, and order a bunch of the reddish-brown containers. Now that I've built it, I wish I'd ordered about four more. Maybe when I make artwork to cover the wall, I can sneak four of those out, replace them with other brown bricks, and make the whole brown wall taller.

Lbrarian torso arrived a couple days ago. Yesterday, I got the additional white bricks. I dug out a 48x48 baseplate that I've owned for decades, and realize my L-shaped wall needed to be an almost entirely straight wall. This meant dismantling the greater portion of it just to get to all those teeny plates in the middle, and I was reminded of fears people had about NASA's interlocking thermal tiles on the Space Shuttle in the 80s.

They'd said no glue would withstand the temperatures of reentry, so the tiles just held each other in place. Critics feared a 'zipper effect' that would rip the entire shield off. I would try to pull apart just enough bricks to expose the ones I need, and great diagonal sections would all come out with it. So add a couple more hours of monotony to that construct.

Either I'd miscalculated how many 1x2 white bricks I needed to get the height up where I wanted it, or I had just bought the guy's inventory out and forgotten getting the extras, but I discovered I had lots left over. I happily found a use for them this morning.

And making Peter's office with the rails was about an hour of experimentation just to get everything to fit. I wish I had one more straight rail. I still wish the spheres at the corners were available in reddish brown. I bought them in red and plan to paint them.

Then it was just a matter of set dressing. I've been buying interesting bricks whenever I place an order. So there was a baggy that had some welding masks and acetylene torch in it. A toolbox, a handtruck, Egon's drill.



The sloped pieces with the caution striping were an impulse purchase that became chocks for the Ecto's rear tires.



And did you notice I upgraded the sniffer on the Ecto?



So... if I knew what I was building from the get-go, it would probably be something I could knock out in two or three hours. As it is, I've logged a few additional hours doing work that was eventually undone and redone.

But heck, that's part of the fun.

All I can say is Lego needs to offer you a job lol!

Also have you thought about tackling the rooftop scene?

If they did give me a job, I'd probably spend so much on more employee-discounted bricks, I'd get a negative paycheck.

The Spook Central rooftop temple, eh? I've seen one done, and it would be a great way to show off the BrickinIt custom trio of Destructor, Zooly, and Vince.

But I better think about that a while. Make my design in LDD and see what corners I can cut before I start ordering.

Alex

[Alex Newborn]

Also have you thought about tackling the rooftop scene?

I've seen one done...

Here it is, it's a pic I found online so I don't know who to credit for this masterpiece.



Magnificent, isn't it?

Alex

[Jake LeRoy]

Dude that is sick!!! Can't wait to see what you can come up with for the roof top scene as well.

And I just love the binoculars for the sniffer that's brilliant!

[Alex Newborn]

I saw it done on one of the scratch-built custom versions that predate the official Lego one-- possibly OrionPax's? -- and knew I'd have to do it.

A single brown wand for a sniffer just takes away so much of Ecto's character. These red wands are a bit too long, but they don't seem to make the shorter length in red.

I exhausted the camera battery taking those other pics today, so I had to let it charge for three hours.

Here finally is a pic of how the back side of the wall looks. With the brown wall in front of it, these bricks didn't even have to be white for all it would matter.



The sellers warned that the used bricks would have some yellowing. I thought about bleaching them with hydrogen peroxide, but honestly, it kinda lends something to the overall look.

You can see where the stripes were extended by one stud on the left, and then they resume for the last three studs on the other side. The original wall was built mainly with 1x2 plates, but knew I'd need 1x1s and possibly 1x3s for edges and corners, so I bought just a few more than I needed. It was exactly enough to extend the pattern a total of four studs.

While the camera recharged, it occurred to me to put solid brown bricks at the spot where Janine's filing cabinets block the rail from view, and move those rails to the sides. It meant shifting everything that touched the baseplate about two studs to the right, but I like it better.



I'll probably try to find better filing cabinets at some point. The red is just too bright, and I need four of them to get the right size I want.

Alex

[Jake LeRoy]

I'm def gonna build this scene and the basement for shure!

I kinda like the off white mix of bricks for the wall, kinda makes it look like the paint on the wall has been there for awhile.

[kurisu7885]

what about adding the Gbs lockers that they kept there uniforms in and of course a fire pole!

I'd thought of poles, but hadn't thought of the lockers, good one. And I want to make a coffee pot for Janine. I think in the movie it's on the same wall with the lockers.

Oh, one funny thing I forgot to mention above. I was making that wall section behind the brown office wall, and it was odd-numbered. I kept running out of 1x3s and 1x1s. I was even leaving 1x1 mouseholes in it. I stared at my pile of even-numbered bricks and wished they made 1x5s and 1x7s... and then I had the DUH moment.

I cracked the entire back wall up off the baseplate from where I'd arbitrarily placed it when I started, shifted it one stud further back, and needed only even-numbered bricks after that.

Alex

Look at the Lego Kwik E Mart Simpsons set, it has a coffee pot built that might be absolutely perfect for your purposes.

Also I imagine you getting more Ghostbusters bodies for the suits in the lockers.