A first modular. In fact it’s meant as one of the famous Painted Ladies in San Francisco, the idea being borrowed from Henrik Hoexbroe who has built a whole row of them. In a larger scale you can find them in Legoland California, too. Obviously the future town will have some Frisco stuff in it, at least there’s already a very fine Cable Car built by Altezza.
There is no interior, but, since cars are still important, a working garage door. The garage even fits the full-size cars. Due to the SNOT road and pavement system there is no usual baseplate, so a width of 21 studs is no problem. Building in an odd width widens the range of possibilities, e.g. you can have cheese on both edges as you can see in the frieze at the gable.
Some details:
The pillars at the bottom of the staircase are shortened versions of the ones used at the Gas Station.
The curtains at the windows of the second floor are made out of bridal veils.
The garage door (probably) has a new mechanism which allows any width. Later I’ll show how it works if you are interested.
The chimney is completely wrong, will be changed.
The roadster is new, too. Its platform is based on the full-size cars, but smaller (6w). It’s built by combining bracket-and-tile and brick techniques and fits two whole minifigs. It doesn’t have a spectacular design, but seems like a step in the right direction on the way to build some smaller cars that go well with the CC style. Hopefully the platform can be developed further.
Thanks to Na Dine for providing the old windows. Thanks to all for looking!
Some more pics: