kevin8

Nice facade. Do you have some pictures of the inside?

I think we developed the same idea, but the designer came up with it himself. I think a Lego set has a development time of at least two years and I thought about that scale at the beginning of 2023 to then I publish my modular at the end of the year, but I do it before Lego.

Yes, the stairs look great!

For me the exterior is really nice, but the interior as usual is very disappointing. Spaces are sacrificed to stuff more shops inside and I never like that. It seems they don't have the courage to make spaces big enough and more realistic. The pub is cramped, I don't understand why they add another tailor's shop, when one already existed in the jazz club. The watchmaker above is interesting, but again, this reduces the apartment to a dump. It seems that Lego designers don't like houses or apartments. Also, to me it still seems poor in terms of construction techniques. Nothing really new.

You can see what's the part you need on Rebrickable, without dowloading the instructions. It's the third tab. It is called "Inventory"

Personally, I see Lego as an expensive hobby where Lego itself makes a lot of money on enthusiasts with increasingly expensive, detailed and bulky sets on one hand and increasingly expensive, small and <insert that tiresome argument> sets on the other. I don't know if it's just my impression, but the medium-small sets are becoming more and more of a disappointment, especially when talking about Star Wars. That said, I also make several MOCs and sell the instructions, but this activity is simply part of the hobby, I would never dream of making a living from it, also because, let's be honest, if tomorrow Lego decided that selling instructions damages its image or creates economic issue, it could close any alternative market and force people to use only Ideas, for example. For this reason, yes, I agree to sell your own instructions because there is often months of work behind them, at least as far as I'm concerned, and I don't understand those who would always want them for free. Let me be clear, I thank those who put their work to be downloaded for free, but I have purchased several Moc instructions and when I built them they often gave me the same joy I felt when buying a Lego set. If I really have to be honest though, I would like those who decide to sell, to put more effort into creating the model and instructions, many times they do it with little care and you have to intervene. This should not happen if you pay.

Thank you!

Thanks!

Hello to everyone! Today I would like to introduce my new modular:it is precisely a medieval driveway door placed on a baseplate with the road. On the ground floor there is the passage for cars that is narrower than the roadway and for this reason it has an alternating one-way system with the traffic light and signs indicating the prescribed speed and the bottleneck. The medieval gates have remained in place, probably restored and still functioning. Above the arch of the door there is a sculpture of a lion's head and the spotlights that illuminate the facade. On the right side there is the bell tower, used to sound the alarm in case of danger. Through the tower there is the pedestrian passage, also in this case the door with its locking system has remained. Inside, a pair of birds has nested and along the corridor there are several medieval coats of arms. Once outside above the door we can find a niche with a votive statuette. On this side there is also a cantilevered room with a wall that I imagined built in terracotta rather than stone like the rest of the building. Here I applied a sort of decoration with oblique tiles clearly inspired by the roof of Rivendell. On this side, above the portal I placed the coat of arms of a lion in a two-tone square and the usual spotlights to illuminate the facade. On the other side of the road there is a gate that gives access to the stairs that lead to the stands and the upper floor for possible tourist visits. Above is a room where the men-at-arms took shelter when necessary, there is a large fireplace that they used for cooking and warming up and the stairs to access the upper floor that have the typical central wear of very old stone stairs. Beyond the fireplace is a long room with a walled up door. Taking the stairs you access the top floor of the door. The battlements suggest that once the building ended with the terrace, but later the battlements were closed and the roof was built by adding another fireplace. On this floor you access the rope to operate the bell. Several construction techniques particularly excited me during the creation of the building. The first concerns the closing system of the doors. One thing I have often noticed is that during the Middle Ages, to allow a quick closing of very heavy doors, they misaligned the hinges. In this way the door remained tilted when it was open while when it needed to be closed, it was enough to move it and it closed almost by the force of gravity alone. The second one is about the round structure of the tower. I needed a rather small tower, maximum 7 studs wide and I had no choice but to try to do something new (I think). So by alternating and rotating modified bricks with the stud on the side, I somehow managed to obtain a structure that is not too uniform and variegated while still keeping it quite solid. The third one is about the roof built with two slopes using a relatively new piece, “Bar 1L with Angled Hollow Stud”. With this detail in mind I thought about the truss structure and built the boarding and the rest of the roof on top. The last one is the bell that I tried to make as in reality with the wooden counterweight to which it is fixed. Unfortunately I couldn't take any pictures because my camera is under repair. As soon as I get a chance, I'll upload them to the Flickr gallery. https://www.flickr.com/photos/kevin8/albums/72177720320925725/with/54046552451

Wow! Many thanks, really interesting!

Wow! really nice. I like the roof, and the details like the basin for washing linen or sheepskin carpet! My god, the churn!

This version of Barad-Dur is definitely stockier than she should be, with those proportions it should be at least 40% taller. It seems to me that with this set, they focused more on the exclusive minifigs than on the structure. I have no idea on how much it will cost, I imagine a minimum of 400 euros, but unlike Rivendell, this set seems crude to me as well as highly incorrect in proportions. We're just not there.

Semplicemente maestoso!

Just love it! Think Dali would love it too.

Another milestone. Great work, great photos.