The front porch is made up of a whole bunch of components, from posts, to rails, to floor board, to ceiling to support pieces, and an arched doorway facade. This was the first of many times I had to make larger than life individual LEGO blocks to attach.



The blocks were made out of 3/16th underlayment board, 1x4 CUL lumber from Home depot, 1 1/2 foam, PL 300 glue, and a ton of staplegun staples.



The blocks shaped like LEGO heads on top of the posts are actually Jiff Peanut butter jars. Unfortunately, the jars are about 2 inches too tall for what I wanted but the rest of the shape and size is perfect, meaning I needed to cut them. I found out that the jars do not hold up well when put through a chop saw or a band saw. Both split the jars and cracked them. Luckily I have extra, as I have collected them for 5 years and put screws in them in my shop.



So I decided to fill them with Great stuff foam. That didn't go as planned. The foam swelled up just fine, but sealed the opening as it expanded which, then left the inside of the jar air tight and would not allow the rest of the foam to cure. A day later, I cut into the side of each jar to allow it to breathe. I also took the top foam off as well. The foam cured against the cut and sealed again. The next day, I cut small grooves the the bottom. Same thing happened. Day 3 the foam had dried enough that I could cut further into the side with the chop saw. I put a half way slice into the side. This expanded some more foam and distorted the container.



After 5 days it finally all dried. I cut apart the jars, messed with gluing them back together, then drilled a hole through the center to insert a piece of PVC that I should have done to begin with. Not sure how I would do it next time but I won't be doing it the same again.



The jars were mounted to printer tubes, block frames stapled to the bottom, and the plastic tube ends stapled to the porch deck. The posts are then removable but hold in place. The PVC tip through the peanut butter jars held the post tops in place against the blocks mounted to the porch roof.



A large sheet of 1 1/2 inch foam was glued to the porch base and the porch roof for the depth needed according to the model. Technically it is 3/16th over the size because of the backer board but close enough for me and I was not going to trim down a giant piece of foam for 3/16th of an inch.