[MOC] Detective's Office/Corner Deli

[Hive]

After getting 31050 Corner Deli (and loving it!) a while back, I immediately fell in love with the colour scheme and wanted to turn the building into a full-fledged modular (I later found out through a google search that I was far from the first person to get that idea, but oh well). A couple of months ago, I finally started the build; I decided that the sandwhich shop would be ill-fitted for a full modular, and that it should share the space with something else. After some thinking, I got the idea to merge it with one of the modulars I don't actually own - with my first choice being 10185 Green Grocer. I did start on that, but didn't really like how the merge looked... so I instead chose 10246 Detective's Office (a building I originally decided wasn't for me). In the beginning, I worked from the *.pdf instructions with the bricks I already had - but before long, I had bought the instructions and many of the bricks for it from Bricklink (and in hindsight, I should just have bought the entire set before it retired)... and today, I finally finished it. I apologize for the poor quality of the pictures, photography is not my strongest suit:

 

 

As you can see, I didn't copy the DO 100 % - but took some liberties with design and, especially, colouring. You may notice a little easter egg from 10260 Downtown Diner as well.

 

[adwind]

Very nice. Love the spring tree and big burger sign of course )

[Hive]

Just now, adwind said:

Very nice. Love the spring tree and big burger sign of course )

Thank you.

The three is actually "stolen" from one of the fairground sets (forgot the name). Really liked the design and wanted to include it in a build.

The "burger" (which is a sandwhich! ) is actually the exact same size as in the original Corner Deli build. It was important to me that there would be something in this that was 100 % as in the original set. While not visible in the pictures, the original stove from the set is included below the stairs.

[Jody Meyer]

Omg love the snow show fan , nice looking build

[Vindicare]

6 hours ago, Hive said:

Thank you.

The three is actually "stolen" from one of the fairground sets (forgot the name). Really liked the design and wanted to include it in a build.

The "burger" (which is a sandwhich! ) is actually the exact same size as in the original Corner Deli build. It was important to me that there would be something in this that was 100 % as in the original set. While not visible in the pictures, the original stove from the set is included below the stairs.

It was the Ferris Wheel, I love those trees as well. It’s a shame they don’t use them more. 

You really intregated the deli nicely into the DO. It works well too. 

[Hive]

Thanks for the nice words. :)

I'll admit that the colour palette has had (and still has) me worried, with dark red, reddish brown and dark orange all in the mix... I've been considering replacing the dark red brick bricks with the original Detective's Office colour.

[LegoDW]

The Corner Deli is a great starting platform for creating a modular building.  Think you might like these links.  

 

and this one

The small brick city guy does some really highly detailed work.  

[finnbricker]

DO looks great in dark red! And the burger joint fits perfectly in there. Very nice build!

Here's my try at modularizing Corner Deli:

 

[MoustacheBaer]

Very good looking! I love the red bricks used for the office building. The Deli sandwich sign is creative and good looking.