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[Faefrost]

OK crazy question (maybe). Looking at how to display my growing collection of Modular's I am going to end up using an L shaped bookshelf that sits over my corner desk. I would like to have the buildings sort of wrap around like a panorama. But to do this I need to come up with something for the Inside Corner. (The opposite of the standard corner modular, where the two "front" facing walls are what connect to the adjacent buildings and the building sits on the outer arc of the street bend). Has anyone ever made anything like this? I am looking for ideas on how to approach it.

Thanks

[fred67]

It's not crazy - I did the same thing (with the shelves) and started (and abandoned) making an inside corner.  I didn't have enough of the parts I needed to do what I wanted (a really brick looking exterior), but it makes sense for such a display.

How to approach it?  I don't really understand... you have a 32x32 base, take out a corner for the sidewalk and that's what you have left.  I think I'll just do a facade while it's on the shelf, but I probably won't use it at all (someday) when I make a full city/train layout.  If I were, I might make it a much smaller building with a yard.

[streifen]

I have also been thinking of something for an inside corner. What I have in mind is a modular building on TWO 16x32 plates and wedged between them is the 32x32 for the inside corner. With some works on the facade, you can have a massive beautiful building!

[Faefrost]

I was trying to figure out a way to put not just a facade there, but some sort of detailed scene? My shelves will put everything right at that model railroad eye level viewing height.  My one thought is to design two 16x32 buildings with side facing windows and fire escapes to sit on either side of a semi fenced in 32x32 abandoned lot scene, that has facades of tenement windows on the two outer sides facing in. So this way you still get the unbroken city eyeline, but there would be a street level more open scene in the middle of it.

Sigh! Probably too complex for my skills.

[roamingstudio]

I had started building a MOC for the modular contest which did exactly this - and put together unfinished base plates and walls. But real life intervened and never got beyond sketches and ldd MOC

First in uk there are many Victorian streets which Finnish with a row blocking the end. Ground floor usually has an archway to access the rear gardens. This would span the 8 wide pavement and provide a logical line. Above would be larger flat of some sort with access door on the other side of the 8x8 corner pavement. To be honest it looks small if keeping to the modular standard

My next idea was to turn more medieval - many European towns with 18c and 19c type buildings (like official sets) also have older medieval segments - a wall leading to an old tower gate house (joust) which would allow a wider footpath and a segment where cars now drive through into town. Possibly only one part of the old wall surviving...

My other ideas may be turned into future mocs so I keep them for now...

[Vincent Kessels]

I haven't made one myself yet, but this is a great example I found recently:


Grand Emporium & Outbrick Steak House, Godwin's Hollow by Godwins in Kuwait, on Flickr

[Ferrik]

Vincent Kessels, on 11 September 2012 - 07:04 AM, said:

I haven't made one myself yet, but this is a great example I found recently:


Grand Emporium & Outbrick Steak House, Godwin's Hollow by Godwins in Kuwait, on Flickr

I agree, something like this would look great, but if you don't want to take too long you can make a simpler design which could be just as great.

[streifen]

Vincent Kessels, on 11 September 2012 - 07:04 AM, said:

I haven't made one myself yet, but this is a great example I found recently:

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Faefrost, this is what I meant. as for the scenery outside, if you are restricting to a 32x32 plate, there really is nothing much you can do in front but you have a whole big back alley to play with.

[RoxYourBlox]

Faefrost, on 11 September 2012 - 04:01 AM, said:

OK crazy question (maybe). Looking at how to display my growing collection of Modular's I am going to end up using an L shaped bookshelf that sits over my corner desk. I would like to have the buildings sort of wrap around like a panorama. But to do this I need to come up with something for the Inside Corner. (The opposite of the standard corner modular, where the two "front" facing walls are what connect to the adjacent buildings and the building sits on the outer arc of the street bend). Has anyone ever made anything like this? I am looking for ideas on how to approach it.

There is perhaps not a better example of an inside corner than Jasper Joppe Geers' "Police HQ":

[Legocrazy81]

RoxYourBlox, on 13 September 2012 - 03:23 PM, said:

There is perhaps not a better example of an inside corner than Jasper Joppe Geers' "Police HQ":

There it is! That's exactly what I was thinking of when reading this topic. Just couldn't remember who built it.

[Jasper Joppe Geers]

Well, it isn't exactly an inside corner...

basically it connects to the backside of the building,
instead of the short facing walls... ;)