MOC: Tommy Hilfiger™ store

[VBBN]

Nice job. Some clever techniques you used, and I like them. Nice to see attention to detail. Now I want to make an Aeropostale` store.

[Natman8000]

Nice job. Some clever techniques you used, and I like them. Nice to see attention to detail. Now I want to make an Aeropostale` store.

Why, those places are messes. I guess that would be a good challenge

[prateek]

Why, those places are messes. I guess that would be a good challenge

i agree that would be messy, but it'll be fun to see plates lying everywhere and the sign would be so hard to make

[Er!k]

Nice MOC, but I miss the red and blue Tommy colors?!

[jaredchan]

Dear jaredchan,

I really like this design. It is clean, solid and well executed.

And it holds it own inbetween the Green Grocer and the Cafe Corner.

The interior is amzing and the furnature is really well made.

So thumbs up from me.

Thanks for sharing.

Kind regards,

Teddy

Awesome creation, so many details to fall in love with, well done.

Thanks for your kind words Teddy and I Scream Clone, I hope I can do better next time. Now I need to go back and collect both thoughts and bricks.

Nice job. Some clever techniques you used, and I like them. Nice to see attention to detail. Now I want to make an Aeropostale` store.

Why, those places are messes. I guess that would be a good challenge

i agree that would be messy, but it'll be fun to see plates lying everywhere and the sign would be so hard to make

Thanks VBBN, we don't have Aeropostale` store in Hong Kong so I don't know how messy it could be, but I am sure the Tommy logo is the easiest to replicate in LEGO form.

Nice MOC, but I miss the red and blue Tommy colors?!

Thanks Er!k, I think I used the 2 colors fairly in the shop, they are on the logo, the shop wall's dark red strip and the dark blue carpet. I think they are not even that dominant in an actual store .

[djo]

wow. i love your modular design very much Jared.

awesome building, great design, great modularily, great compatibilty with official LEGO modular houses.

sorry if this ever asked, how long you took to design this masterpiece? how you manage to get all the parts? do you use LEGO CAD to design it first?

this is really a beauty.

[jaredchan]

wow. i love your modular design very much Jared.

awesome building, great design, great modularily, great compatibilty with official LEGO modular houses.

sorry if this ever asked, how long you took to design this masterpiece? how you manage to get all the parts? do you use LEGO CAD to design it first?

this is really a beauty.

Thanks djo for your kind words !

The planning for "Tommy", excluding the first floor furniture which was built before it, started in late January.

We have numerous shops in HK that dedicate to selling parts. Besides the tiles, reddish brown bricks and plates, I collect parts from them on an ongoing and almost random basis. This "Parts-first-design-later" strategy doesn't give me a lot of bricks but is surely very effective design wise, as I can find some creative use of pieces when I am forced to make good use of them. As limitations make me think more and give better results, I set myself a 25 2x2 windows limit this time(and I used only 24). The extra thinking surely paid off, imagine how the building would look like if the rectangular block for the clock and the 2 2x2 windows is replaced with a fourth "generic" window.

Playing with the parts in hand is better than doing it with the computer for me. As usual, I started by designing the windows but not a master plan. I had a few window prototypes, the Tommy logo and the canopy over the shop entrance done in February. That was when I started to think about the overall picture, but I got stuck there, partly because of work and partly because of a lack of ideas. I had some good windows but I didn't know how to arrange them properly for a decent facde.

The breakthrough came two weeks before completion and things just flowed naturally from that point. The facade was completed in one day and the shop interior was rather a piece of cake. I exhausted my parts and ideas but it also means new parts gathering and parts-driven building experimentations, which will surely help my future projects. I am not sure if you have the chance to buy parts freely, but I hope you may find my "Parts-first-design-later" strategy useful .

[djo]

well, nice strategy indeed.

lucky you have many part shops in HK.

you mean physical shop right?

we don't have that kind of shop in our country.

we can only buy from local and overseas bricklink stores.

or just buying the full set and part out them.

[jaredchan]

well, nice strategy indeed.

lucky you have many part shops in HK.

you mean physical shop right?

we don't have that kind of shop in our country.

we can only buy from local and overseas bricklink stores.

or just buying the full set and part out them.

Yes, I mean physical shops, but they don't always have the parts you want though.

[MetroiD]

This "Parts-first-design-later" strategy doesn't give me a lot of bricks but is surely very effective design wise, as I can find some creative use of pieces when I am forced to make good use of them.

I sure know what you're talking about there! We've got a good selection of parts, but we haven't bought any of the modular design sets, so fancy facades are not that easy for us to build. Sometimes it is a huge problem, but more often it is a wonderful way to force one's brain to come up with alternative designs which can still do the trick. And I definitely love how it has all worked out on this occasion! Looking forward to your next modular MOC :]