London Postcard (LEGO 40569)

About this set

LEGO 40569 London Postcard is a small Creator build in the city-architecture vein, with LONDON printed on the box and 277 pieces at a 3/5 difficulty. It squeezes several London landmarks into a postcard-style horizontal composition: Big Ben rising from beige and grey masonry, a stylised London Eye beside it, a red double-decker bus and a Union Jack under a dark blue sky, plus a LONDON sign along the front. The beige, dark blue, red, white and grey palette keeps the scene tidy. When building, sort the beige and grey wall parts by colour first, then work from the back forward, laying the sky baseplate, raising the clock tower and the Eye, and adding the bus and flag last so you are not reworking thin plates. The Eye's ring and the tower tip are the fiddly bits; it suits anyone who has built a few small sets and wants a desk-sized city silhouette, and at 277 pieces it is a single-sitting build.