cimddwc

Hello everyone, something different from me this time - a plateau with an Elven castle in microscale: Where you can imaginge this plateau as a remainder of a volcano... Closeup of the castle: Top view showing the mysterious glowing red eyes in the lake - I don't want to know what kind of creature lives there. Is it kept under control by the elves? An arduous path leads up to the lower plateau... ...and a similarly arduous path (which enters a tunnel along the way) up to the top: Detail view with agriculture and the waterfall: Some pillars apparently broke off recently: (Notice the open stud from a bracket? Seems I forgot to attach a tile there...) The highest part has thinner vegetation. And a hermit's hut under the fern leaf: River and lake with water bubbling up - where does it come from, how does it get up here? Another, higher plateau elsewhere, connected with tunnels? Magic? Access to the battery box at the back - just regular Lego Power Functions with Lego LEDs. And you see at the top how most of the forest ground is constructed: bricks with studs on the side lying snotted, interspersed with plates to avoid a regular pattern. And this was the inspiration for this build: » Full album on Flickr

Hello everyone, another house that I started building in 2023 is finally completed inside. Its main feature is the 3 big arched windows, hence the somewhat unsinspired name. Yes, it's cut off - when I introduced the 45° building, it meant this last house in the row would meet the wall of my room in that angle, too. Street view: But let's look into the top floor first. In the main room (using the above-ground section from 76052 Batcave), an elderly tycoon is standing at the window of his city office, pondering on something... ...(if minifigures could fold their hands behind their backs, he would do this now)... Maybe he's pondering on whether instead of buying jeweled golden bathrooms for all his branch offices... ...he should have bought a president instead? Seems they come rather cheap these days. This conference room on the floor below, part of the tycoon's offices, is "rescued" from my Grand Palace Hotel when I made that smaller a couple of years ago. Lots of customers in the pastry shop - one ordered the "XL Special": » Full album on Flickr That's it, hope you like it...

Thanks, everyone!

Hi everyone, it's been a while since I last posted new MOCs to Eurobricks, sorry about that. Here's the latest of a bunch that was mostly complete except for interior and, in some cases, rear walls or roofs. » Full Album on Flickr This one is a rare occasion to bring some variation into an otherwise quite rectangular building style… With an angle of 45°, there's always a square root of 2 involved, so it wouldn't fit exactly into the grid, but before I'd clamp a separate middle wall somehow right away, I calculated some variations of width and depth for the wall sections, and indeed there was this one combination where the middle wall is just about 1/750th stud shy of 9 studs - so this is how it ended up, with a somewhat deeper indentation than I had originally in mind. Incorporating 40687 Alien Space Diner GWP in the ground floor, an office, and two apartments. I also tried a full top floor with wedge plates as middle roof, but that didn't look good, and then either the side walls would show behind the narrower little towers, or the interior there would be ridiculously narrow. Here's a look at the modules: A look inside the Space Diner that includes an extra Benny with stars as decoration (and cover for the wall gap): Upstairs we have an office with lots of space for files (and a good way to cover up some gaps in the floor) and two apartments: (Plants are also good for covering up gaps.) Hope you like it...

I modified the top floor to give it a proper timbering with wood in the corners (and a few places on the long side): Also extended it to the left by 1 stud making it symmetrical, which benefits the timbering.

Looks (on the actual tin plate) like a trans-red "boat stud" 2654 to me, followed by a 32270 gear, though that would be problematic to attach. Maybe a trans-red disc which has a hole, though the gap at the bottom of the black plate looks filled with trans-red.

Brickset had an article about that last year:

Hi everyone, Here's my latest building, a house consisting of multiple blocks in different styles, containing the Lego apartment sets (and more), at the foot of a little mountain that is yet to be built: Let's look inside. There's a tool shop on the left and model toy shop on the right: The tool shop's back room is for special customers only... Downstairs combines a (probably unlicenced) bar (a Star Wars set), a bathroom (a Harry Potter set), and the tool shop owner's apartment (a Marvel set with added bedroom), as well as more of the model shop: The model shop has a good selection for model train fans. (The trains are mostly from older City advent calendars.) Second floor combines a modified Seinfeld apartment and one decorated mostly with leftover furnitures from other sets: Third floor contains the Friends apartments, squeezed a bit. A strange combination with one shared bathroom, big living rooms with kitchens, but they have to sleep on the sofas... Top floor houses a (rearranged) Queer Eye apartment: In its place behind the older small houses: My original idea was to have the blocks go all way along the long side, with long staircase and only one apartment per floor, but that was way too big and too dominant: So I had to make it consist of smaller blocks and 1-2 floors lower, which also allowed me to add two more colors and styles. » Album on Flickr

Well, you can clip onto the flotation ring/toilet seat 30340, but only in straight direction, and obviously not where the stud is.

Well, two standard curve tracks shift the track by 6 studs, but are about 1 1/4 studs shorter than straights, so unless you can accommodate for that in the entire setup, it doesn't help; 8 pieces of flex track stretch to the proper length with a 4 studs shift without noticeable stress (I'm using this in my setup), but have all the disadvantages of flex tracks. I'm not aware of third-party solutions for this, but would also be interested... If the two tracks come around a corner on both ends of the station - not very realistic in real life, but maybe necessary in a small Lego setup -, you can of course use a single flex track piece or third-party quarter straight before the curve.

Really beautiful! Lots of great architectural and interior details!

Hi everyone, as I said in the "Café, Fashion, and more" post, the market square should soon be finished - here it is: A busy market square on a Saturday afternoon... with two birch trees (after all, my town is called Port Birch), and a monorail station. There's a lot going on: A promotion for some Ninja game (from Ninjago market place); since there's a Star Wars convention in town, there are always some cosplayers around for taking photos with them; a wedding (comes with the Town Hall set, anyway); a hot dog cart. The statue's from a set, the masked saxophone player is fom Vidiyo, more hotdogs, and more people. The trees trunks, by the way, are built around a long Technic brick so I can use them as handles to lift this module. Wavy glass roof on the monorail station - not the most practical thing when it rains from certain directions, but, well, it's art... And a rock wall to the side (not really part of the market square, but I include it in this album anyway) featuring a sawn-up monorail straight as slope extension, small buildings from a Monkie Kid set, the Hidden Side shrimp shack, remainders of Ninjago City and Docks... ...and a mirror "monolith" (anyone still cares about those that popped up in various places some time ago...?), and some sort of art project/escapist refuge where you can live in a cave for one month for free. » Flickr album

Minifigure, Footgear Roller Skate (connected to the curved slope above) Plate, Round 1 x 1 (connected to roller skate) Plate, Modified 1 x 1 with Light Attachment - Thick Ring Plate, Modified 1 x 2 with Bar Handle on End - Closed Ends or Plate, Modified 1 x 1 Rounded with Bar Handle Brick, Modified 1 x 1 with Bar Handle Plate, Modified 1 x 1 with Tooth Vertical plus regular plates in between where needed for spacing.

Thanks, everyone! Well, it's always a compromise anyway. The exterior proportions are smaller than in real life, so either I make properly sized rooms with an apartment spanning two or more full floors, or I make the interior smaller and more cramped. In this case, I chose the latter to get more different functions inside. Sometimes noticing "Oh, i forgot this item", making it even more cramped than intended...

Hi everyone, my latest building: A modular "double double house", i.e two parts with different facades on front and back. DD fronts by cimddwc, on Flickr Featuring a fashion store, a small ice cream parlor, a café, a waffle shop, and some offices and apartments. And parts of the Winter Village Fire Station set's facade. Possibly the smallest ice cream parlor in town, but, judging by the queue, also the best: Geometry fun fact: the square root of 49+49 is nicely close to 10: The outdoor part of the café continues next to the neighboring building: Inside: Latest fashion from the Beauxbatons collection, a café using parts of an old Friends set, the little ice cream parlor, and the waffle shop uses another Friends set: Upper floor of fashion store: orange astronaut fashion is all the rage; and a lawyer's office in the dark red half: A financial advisor inhabits one side - white-haired customer is waiting, the assistant sits in the middle, and the advisor with a big gold clock in her office. The other half is a small single-room apartment (but still expensive right next to the market square) - the woman apparently doesn't enjoy the TV program as much as her boyfriend, but luckily she got hold of the remote: And on the top floor, there's an apartment spanning the full depth - and the orange astronaut fashion is being produced here in home work: And finally the parents' bedroom under the roof, plus a roof terrace: The narrow part features a small and cramped robotics workshop (an old Friends set) and an apartment spanning two floors. (Seems something was forgotten in the inaccessible space under the stairs...): Between the neighboring buildings, the round pharmacy on the left and the old "Atlantis-style" City Bank on the right: Maybe I should spice up the side windows of the pharmacy a bit. Same buildings on the other side, facing the market square, which will hopefully be finished soon: » Flickr album Hope you like it...