Up next are some of the internal features of the building. We start with a simple wall display - it looks like the Fish Store was featured quite prominently in the local paper, enough so that the owner has clipped out the article and framed it proudly near the main entrance.
Upstairs, we can see the small workspace where the owner can take care of his administrative business and also escape for a break once in a while. The green 80's style lamp is a nice touch, again signifying the age and rustic feel of the shop and reinforcing the disconnect from modern society.
With a good start on the internals, we also start putting up the external walls for the building. And here again, there is some really excellent detailing. Amongst the patchwork of the wall, you can see some basic building utilities - a water faucet on one side and a couple of gas and utility meters on the other.
The coolest thing has to be the swinging wall though. This entire wall pivots out in order to allow access to the interior once the set is complete. Presumably the roof level is not removable, so a different method of access was required.
In our previous set (Temple of Airjitzu), we mentioned that we had thus far seen 2 methods of access. The first being the removable floor levels as is common with the City Creator sets and the second was to leave the back completely open (as in the Temple of Airjitzu set). We build our Lego primarily for display purposes, so method 1 is far preferable for us.
This method of the pivoting wall may prove to be our favorite yet (we'll see how things go as we progress through to the completion of the set). If all goes well, it will remove the need to lift off floors to access lower levels while maintaining a full 360 degree display AND allow sufficient access to the interior to move and position mini-figures.
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