Standalone Al's Barber Shop

[theycallmemrdarko]

My first modular was the Detective's Office just a few months ago and I found the Barber shop to be a bit cramped. So I wanted to try and do a 16 wide standalone barber/apartments and I think the result came our pretty nice. This is my first post on EB so please let me know if I need to edit anything. 

Album can be found here: http://imgur.com/a/LE6Y5

Hope you guys enjoy!

Darko

[LegoSjaak]

Nice to see it as a stand alone! What did you do with the detective office?

[theycallmemrdarko]

3 minutes ago, LegoSjaak said:

Nice to see it as a stand alone! What did you do with the detective office?

That is next on my project list. I just got back into Lego in September after 20 years so this was my real first big mod. Trying to decide if I want to do a 16 wide Highlander/Detective's office or push to 22 and have a 10 stud wide outdoor patio/firepit area off the side of Highlander. 

[fordtruckin]

Awesome mod! If I had an extra Detective's Office I would attempt to mod it, but I only have 1 and I really like it as it is.

[LegoSjaak]

1 hour ago, theycallmemrdarko said:

That is next on my project list. I just got back into Lego in September after 20 years so this was my real first big mod. Trying to decide if I want to do a 16 wide Highlander/Detective's office or push to 22 and have a 10 stud wide outdoor patio/firepit area off the side of Highlander. 

I would go for your second option, as that is more attractrive to see and offers more own input!

[theycallmemrdarko]

1 hour ago, fordtruckin said:

Awesome mod! If I had an extra Detective's Office I would attempt to mod it, but I only have 1 and I really like it as it is.

Thank you very much! I figure I can always put it back together at some point but I just came out of my dark ages so I'm trying to experiment as much as possible with whatever pieces I have plus the few brinklink orders I've placed so far. 

1 hour ago, LegoSjaak said:

I would go for your second option, as that is more attractrive to see and offers more own input!

The more I think about it that's probably the route I'll go. I can try and customize a bit more with the wider footprint since the original Highlander is already 16 studs wide. 

[TheLegoDr]

Overall it works quite well. It looks very similar to the original building, which it was a well designed looking building (other than the weird reddish brown part).

I've thought about making mine stand alone also. Although I think I will change it up a bit of course. Does yours have stairs anywhere? I'll have to look at that other link you put up there to see more.

As for the Detective office, I agree about adding in  the side area. I have a Corner Deli modular build going that has a little eating area outside. It looks neat enough. It adds something different too. The only downside is the lack of visual space above the eating area since it won't be a full size building then.

[theycallmemrdarko]

56 minutes ago, TheLegoDr said:

Overall it works quite well. It looks very similar to the original building, which it was a well designed looking building (other than the weird reddish brown part).

I've thought about making mine stand alone also. Although I think I will change it up a bit of course. Does yours have stairs anywhere? I'll have to look at that other link you put up there to see more.

As for the Detective office, I agree about adding in  the side area. I have a Corner Deli modular build going that has a little eating area outside. It looks neat enough. It adds something different too. The only downside is the lack of visual space above the eating area since it won't be a full size building then.

Thanks, my first thought was to just imagine if someone stretched the Barber shop out to 16 studs, what that would look like so that's a big part of why it still retains most of the exterior styling. 

I did add stairs to the backside for the apartment, i'm not super happy with the execution but that's just something I'll get more familiar with as I keep building. I'm still figuring this EB thing out so next time I'll try and embed more pictures directly into the post. 

I'm thinking I may try and make an L shaped building that wraps around the back so the patio sits on the front right 1/4 of the baseplate and will still retain some of the height. Thinking similar to the right side of Assembly square but replace the fountain with an eating area.  

[koalayummies]

Santa doesn't need a haircut!   Great mod/moc, the back looks great with the 1x1 round tiling, staircase and additional flower planters. The bedroom tiling is pretty too. Nice work. 

[TheLegoDr]

Good idea. The L shaped building should work well. I had that thought too. I was torn between having zero building there vs a blank wall (depending on width). I am still in progress of my build, so I haven't officially decided what to do. Can't wait to see yours.