DrJosephMosch

I got the last bricklink order today and was able to finish the bridge. It spans 27 studs wide and is supported by two arches beneath.

Thank you all for your kind words :) I'm from Austria, but the coloured bike lane is borrowed from my last trip to the Netherlands. The houses all sit on mostly 8x16 plates supported by a lot of 2x4 bricks and the connection bricks(technic bricks to the sides facing other buildings, and bricks with additional studs or reversed headlight bricks roadside. It's quite hard to connect everything but when all modules are in place the construction is very sturdy. I would make a photo of the underside but dismantling everything now is a bit of a hassle.

Hello all, I have never really been fond with the options we have regarding roads. Especially in combination with the modular buildings. The official roadplates just look plain wrong in my opinion and you have the additional rows of studs to cover. also they are not very flexible in their usage. The same goes for tiled roads, although they are much more flexible. So I decided to build SNOT-roads to accomondate street parking, bikelanes and sidewalks. As anybody who also tried this may know, this kind of project is incredibly expensive. Coincidally on Saint Patricks day I got a decent bonus at work and also pretty drunk afterwards. So perfect conditions to make a half dozen bricklink orders. Anyway, here are the pictures: The first test module I have made featuring on street parking, a green strip, a protected cycle path and enlarged sidewalks with wheelchair accessible ramps. I made all of the street modules at the most 48 studs long for them to be transportable. They interlock using technik pins. Here is the same module integrated in the City: The most tedious part was to move my modulars to their new baseplates, which are raised by one brick and connect to the roads firmly. Two fingernails and one brick seperator were lost in the process... To add some depth(pun intended) and to span the empty hole between the two shelfes the layout is on I constructed a small river with walkways and a bridge above. Still waiting for some bricks for the bridge. The other side of the river. With bike lanes, a bike rack and a small park. Bus stop and junction with the soon to be very busy pedestrian street. I'm open to hear your feedback, criticism and opinions and will gladly answer any questions.

First, thanks for your opinion. You make some good points. Unfortunatly there is no way to building this with round plates and still keeping it somewhat sturdy. I thought about replacing the 2x2 bricks, but this doesn't work for the same reason than the plates. Also it looks too strong having just the plates stick out and I think this is a reasonable compromise between form and function. As for the height, I tried stacking the original floor in LDD but that destroyed the symmetry of the build in my opinion.

Today I got the last bricks I needed from bricklink and have finnished my modded second floor. The exterior is like the first floor but one brick less in height and the floor flush to the windows. Making that got me quite a headache and the structure is still more or less fragile. The interior features two office desks and a break room in the first floor and the official furniture in the new second floor. As a bonus I also added a small cash machine to the side:

Since the difference is exactly one Brick I just used a stair element offset one stud from the original position.

I tried my hand at building the additional floor in real bricks, but unfortunatly I can not finish it until my bricklink order arrives. Sandgreen windows are quite expensive tbh... Here are some WIP shots: I think it works quite well proportionwise because of the horizontal line dividing the upper floors and making them smaller in comparison to the grand first floor. Also the whole bank is now higher than the grand emporium and looks even bigger than it is due to the big high windows.

I will probably add another floor to it. It will be a tad smaller as the official second floor and without the railings in front of the window to add to the vertical theme of the building. Inside will be the same as the original but with changed furniture. Heightwise this floor is one brick smaller than the original. Here is roughly how it would fit in my layout: As you see it will still be only a tad bigger than the GE and still fits in nicely beside the (modded) DO. The roof of the laundromat however does not work if seen from the side, so I will have to mod a flat(er) roof on top of this part. Now the only problem I face is how to build it in real bricks. I feel like it would be cheaper to buy an additional set and sell the two floors I don't need instead of bricklinking the parts. But then I had to open a bricklink shop... I don't know if this is allowed on this forum, but if anyone buys this set in bulk and is willing to sell the whole second floor before parting the set out they can hit me up.

Hey all. I proudly present you my very first modular MOC, technically my first two modular MOCs: There are two buildings on a 32x32 baseplate forming a modular corner. Let's start with the blue one Corner bikeshop On the ground floor there is a small bikeshop, where my townpeople come to buy and repair their bikes. The studs in the front will be used to build a bike rack like you can already see on the left side. On the tan tiles I will put a sticker with the bikeshops name on it. The interior is quite simplistic. A cash register, some wall hooks to display cycling equipment(must be sold out) and some tools, a cash register, a backroom where the bikes are repaired and of course a selection of bikes, red and azure being the colours of the season. Here you can see a better picture of the bike racks I am going to put up all over the city when the pieces arrive. The first and second floor look the same and will eventuelly house office spaces. They are still empty since I seem to suck at furniture. I would highly appreciate help in the comments ;) The highlight of this building is the rooftop bar, which overlooks the deep IKEA Expedit river and most of the town. Then off to the red building, but beware, adult content incoming ;) Stripclub and appartment building After a visit to Amsterdam I wanted to recreate some of the architecture and atmosphere to my LEGO town. So I made a classic innercity townhouse out of dark red bricks and huge windows. Only the roof is not quite dutch, I made it to fit my existing collection of modulars. If you have ever been to Amsterdam you will recognize these windows from the red light district. I decided to soften the purpose of the building in my town to "just" being a stripclub. This is the stripclub where the rebels went to forget the battle of Hoth actually. Above the club there is the appartment of some lovely old folks. They do not mind living above our loud stripclub, in fact gramps ownes the place and his wife was one of the first dancers there in the 50s. Looks like they are having a feast with the profits the club is making. All in all their appartment is quite nice, with a loggia on the first floor and a big terrace on the upper floor. The appartment features big windows and classy interior. Backside: Front: The buildings sit together with the palace cinema on a small shelf, divided by the great Expedit river from the rest of my modulars because I ran out of space on the "mainland" so I guess the next project will be a bridge connecting the two. Criticism, praise, comments and questions all welcome. :)

Your square was a huge inspiration forr my small car-free street. Pre conversion: A cramped street with small sidewalks and a lot of traffic. After the conversion: Now it's a car free public space for our citizens with benches, trees and flower beds. A farmers marked is held nearly every day and to add more safety for our pedestrians the new crosswalk is ruled by a traffic light.

+1 for the IKEA Expedit series What I love even more than building and admiring the modular buildings is bringing them to life. With lots of details and different action at every corner. First thing that comes to mind is street parking. This is supposed to be a street in the heart of the City so empty paring lots are rare. And become even more so on Fridays, because that's when the farmers market is in town. Even the chef of the famous Le Chez comes here to buy fresh veggies, fruits and bread. Other details would be typical City street life, like a motocycle recklessly overtaking a cyclist or a woman trying to park out an insanely huge SUV. ;) Here a normally very busy intersection of one way streets. You see I used the cheapest method of building streets, with just a pencil and a 16x2 plate ;) To make up for that you can see very detailed street signs telling our LEGO people where to drive and where they can park. Today the traffic came to an halt because fireman and police officers are trying to save this little kitten from the tree(One of the busiest days for policeman in this City) Well next street detail is obviously trees, although on the smaller side they are a great addition to this street. On the right side you can see a little chrismas market in front of the Palace Cinema, where people can get drunk on hot wine and liquor. Under the trees you can barely see some Stormtroopers questioning an Astromech droid. You may have already noticed that my PR is mirrored. Well here's why. It is the last building in this street, on the left is only a small Park as the shoreline of the great Expedit river. This park is one of my first MOCs and I think it turned out great. Nothing lasts forever, and so the owner of the Petshop have to completely renovate their house, one of the oldest in the street. To counter the flood of parking vehicles the City authorities decided to try out a car sharing programme by plastering cars with self made stickers. And that's how I display my modular buildings.

I tried a few ways of adding the roof, with the whole hero fists in place to nothing of the original building at all and felt like the way it is now fits best. It is also a nice bonus since I wanted the parts of the buildings to "clash" as a clear giveaway as to what is part of the "old building" and what belongs to the "new" addition of the converted roof space. Same as above. I guess it could work better if I replace the dark bley pieces below the roof with black ones or use a kinda reddish/brownish color scheme for the roof.

Sure, here you go: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-kf7DS6YodTM1ZrZk1UX0Y2NGM/view?usp=sharing My aim was to add to the building with as few additional pieces than possible. The first design was made with only 150 additional pieces, the final design has around 200 pieces not in the set.

With only about 150 extra parts I modded the DO to better fit into my layout. I added a sloped roof with high windows to give the impression as if it was a newly built loft conversion onto the old building. I moved the water tower onto the other building to have some space, I think of adding a roof terrace for the new built condo. Close up of the windows in the front. I made the backside out of dark gray and gray bricks since I had a few of those lying around. However, no one likes to live in a gray home so I had to borrow a well known fig to help the new flat-owners out. The interiors feature the small kitchen moved from its original place and a small table for two. A bed will follow as soon as the paint job is done. Finally, this is how the modded DO fits into my street layout, between a mirrored PR and the currently under renovation being PS. Criticism welcome.

Let me start by saying that I really enjoyed building the DO. I do agree that some of the play-ability features of the set are unnecessary but really fun to fiddle around with. I display it between my mirrored PR and the PS, so it fits in perfectly size-wise. See crappy potato photo: But it doesn't fit in between these two buildings style-wise. So I plan to more or less "Earopeanise" the building. In order to do so I was thinking of simply putting a sloped roof over the hero-fists. So I guess my question is if anyone else had this idea and how that worked out.