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.

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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.

Thank you! I appreciate you like it

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Thank you for this interesting point of view. It happened that while designing and building I didn't care, while when I took the pictures I was almost dazzled by all of this white. The walls have been made white to balance all the colors on the lower floors. we have Greys, Yellows, Reds.... But I should have chosen another color for the fllor in the attic, at least. Something to think about.

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Hello to everyone! Today I would like to introduce my new modular: it is a T-shaped building, a solution that allows me to create some interesting views as well as allowing me to create a bit of movement with classic modulars. On the ground floor there is a take away pizzeria, something typical of our towns but which I think is catching on almost everywhere. Inside the pizzeria, in addition to the counter and the electric oven, there is a pasta press, a pantry and a fridge for drinks, as well as a car for home delivery. In addition to the pizzeria, there is a small post office with everything needed to handle mail, including a scale for weighing parcels. At the back, the T shape allowed me to create an underpass with two street lamps hanging on the wall. Above there is a multi-storey apartment. The entrance coincides with an extremely bright room in which I have placed a wicker lounge, a small desk and many plants and flowers. I wanted to give the impression of a very welcoming and natural area. Initially I saw it as a terrace. The entrance leads to a large kitchen and then through a room with stairs to the second floor, to a living room with TV. Here too there is a plant above the bookcase. On the second floor there is the double bedroom with rather classic furniture: a massive, curved wardrobe and a wooden bed. Also on this floor there is a second bedroom for the couple’s son who is a gamer and has a nice tower desktop PC and a bathroom with shower. In the corridor there is also a wardrobe with the washing machine inside and between the two bedrooms a bench with other plants including a bonsai. On the ceiling there is a trap door with a folding ladder which opens by extracting a pin located on the side of the building and gives access to the attic. The building ends in a medieval tower which according to my idea has been incorporated into the building below and from the attic it is possible to access the roof. Two construction techniques particularly excited me when creating the building. The first concerns the front cornice that I created with R2-D2’s legs alternating with the shoulders of the Nexo Knights. I’ve wanted to use droid legs as an architectural element for a long time and I don’t think I’ve ever seen them used in this way. The second concerns the battlements of the tower with Ghibelline style battlements. I would like to say a few words about the project I am carrying out. It is a city diorama measuring approximately 13.5x6 baseplates, all in all a decent surface area, in which you will find a part of the ancient/medieval city located on a hilly area and the rest of the city in the valley. The downstream part, according to my plans, should represent the most recent part of the historic center, therefore buildings from the 17th-19th century which in some cases still have medieval remnants. Thus we have a medieval tower (K8004), a pedestrian gate of clear eighteenth-century design with a pub (K8007), as well as a medieval vehicle gate (soon to be designed), connected by ancient walls which acted as external walls for buildings overlooking to an avenue. This avenue will then lead to a park and subsequently to the ancient part with different solutions to be able to reproduce the irregularity of the ancient buildings with the typical lanes and streets that represent this type of urban environment. Beyond the walls downstream, therefore, we will have much more regular modular buildings in the Lego standard with a central street that represents a typical walking and shopping street. In this case I’m making sure to position the modulars Lego, making changes to complete the interiors and exteriors, without distorting them architecturally. The furnitures of several Lego modulars can already be downloaded for free from Rebrickable. https://www.flickr.com/photos/kevin8/albums/72177720313458661

Really gorgeous to me. The roof is clever! And the glass stair wonderful. The overall building is great. Beautiful work!

Yes, this could happen when you're an ABS minifig with the same expression on your face day and night

Hello everyone, today I present to you another mod of a Lego modular. This time it's Pet Shop 10218. With a view to wanting to complete all the Modulars by Lego for my diorama, I started thinking about how to exploit the few spaces available. I must say that the apartment above the shop gave me the biggest headaches, as there was very little space there and although I managed to use all the original pieces, I had to add a 6x10 plate on the top floor. This allowed me to move the bed, add a small closet and the bathroom. On the first floor, however, I completed the furnishings with an armchair, another chair and a guitar. As for the painter's apartment, I was very hesitant to represent it as an apartment under renovation, but in the end I decided to furnish this one too. On the ground floor I created a recessed cabinet for the television and moved the couch towards the front. This way I was able to raise a wall to place a small kitchen near the bathroom and a corner table. On the first floor, where the painter is working, there is the bedroom, while on the top floor I left an attic area, but on the terrace I placed a barbeque. Hope you like it. The stud.io model is freely downloadable from Rebrickable. https://www.flickr.com/photos/kevin8/albums/72177720312356334 https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-161481/kevin8/10218-pet-shop-furnitures/#admin

Same to me... I find it quite a disappointment. Those columns came from some mocs from 10 years ago. It seems impossible to me that nothing soiios could be done with these dimensions. The facade is very anonymous. From what little I have seen, the interiors remain far too empty. In short, it doesn't excite me at all. I think it will be the first modular that I don't buy. Then 300 euros, certainly in line with the current inappropriately exaggerated prices that Lego applies, with this new Apple-like policy of wanting to pass off a toy as if it were a design and furnishing object to be placed on display in the home...

Thanks! Happy you liked it! Unluckily the coffe table is now in black... I didn't notice some parts were not in white.