MOD: 10270 mirroring the townhouse

[Deeks]

Haven't posted in many years. Life has been busy but the collection has continued to grow as I've been able. A few weeks ago my wife found the Bookstore and Diner Modular Buildings on Marketplace, used but nearly complete. I already had the Bookstore but figured my town could always use more housing. I looked for examples of those who have combined two of this set and didn't find anything satisfying for the townhouse portion so I decided I'd try to build it in a mirror image because I've always figured you can flip a modular building with little to no modifications or parts substation. In this case I was correct, the only piece that didn't flip was the little door to the basement in the back but this is minor. It was little mind bending to be building the mirror image of the instructions, and all of the pieces of both buildings were mixed together which prolonged the building process and difficulty but I managed to get every piece in its place. Once it was done I put my two copies side by side and found putting the bay windows together looked odd and putting the doors together was almost right. I then decided to offset them slightly by moving one two studs back on the baseplate. This was simple enough and broke up the roof lines, much like some townhouses in my area are built. The only other modification I had to make was to rework the bottom row of the foundation on the one I shifted back to keep one of the technic bricks in the proper position to be able to still put one of the two connector pins between this one and its neighbours. I will likely build a double bookstore in the future but for now they are on the shelf in my office where they get comments nearly every zoom call :D I am planning a layout in the next room once I have built some cabinets as I have a much larger collection than just the buildings.

 

[TheLegoDr]

Interesting. They do work well next to each other. And like a lot of townhomes I don't think it would have hurt if they were still the same depth side by side since they are built that way around me.

No fault of your own, but I am not a fan of the entry stairway to the building so when I build mine I'll modify that. And unrelated, the Police Station is a lot taller than I gave it credit for. I should bust mine out sometime.

[Deeks]

Yeah it didn't look too bad with the two lined up but shifting it just made it more visually interesting. I agree the stairs could benefit from a redesign as I feel they are little too close to the curb. With the exception of benches, mailboxes, lamp posts, etc. I believe the stairs of this building are the building element closest to the curb of the 11 modular buildings I have. Yeah, the Police Station is tall! Its height is why its on the top shelf and at the side. My plan is to build a set of cabinets and a multi-level layout in the 10x10' room behind the shelf unit so I can run trains and my winter village, which is 6x3' already. 

[longjuansilver]

Looks good, sort of like a duplex unit. I'd suggest maybe placing the street lights on the same side of each building to it look a bit more consistent.

Are there any plans to expand the book store building as well?

[Snapshot]

On 4/8/2022 at 1:29 AM, longjuansilver said:

Looks good, sort of like a duplex unit. I'd suggest maybe placing the street lights on the same side of each building to it look a bit more consistent.

Are there any plans to expand the book store building as well?

I did that a year ago:

Now I've moved my files to an https site I must post my double-frontage three storey house too.