xzanfr Posted July 3, 2008 Posted July 3, 2008 Hello, fellow Eber's! I thought you may be interested to see some of the new additions to my cupboard street... Due to the lack of space and bricks, I've confined my Lego street to a shelf in my living room cupboard/display case, so the buildings here are confined by their size. Unfortunately B & Q made an error when designing my cupboard leaving the shelves 95 studs wide This is a problem when trying to build the structures on a 'thin' baseplate so i've had to suspend the house on a raft of 'thick' baseplates making it look weird. Anyway, enough of the excuses First up is the terraced house. - I've tried to build a house that can be built in multiples to create a terrace. I'd love to build Arkwright's shop from 'open all hours' and had this in my mind when building. Inside I've built usual home stuff and I'm very pleased with the 70's inspired bathroom - It's like going to visit your Nan!!! Due to the space and my constant fiddling, these buildings are altered a lot. Since the pictures, I've raised the ground floor windows up by one brick and swapped the burgandy cills for black ones (to make it look less than the creator house it's made from!!). terraced house Next up is a semi-Georgian ( )building. To get some variety in the street i've built a costume shop at the bottom, with a separate entrance up to an accessory shop on the first floor and a bar / pub (bar was easier to write on the sign!!) at the top. Initially it was really made to house my minifigs and their accessories that weren't normally out on display but I thought I'd have a bit of fun with a bar. At first I tried to break up the 'building line' of the street by seting back the shop on the ground floor but switched to Georgian on the first so it looks a bit messy and therfore not out of keeping with my British street!! You'll notice that the stairs are rubbish and I'm thinking of rebuilding to flatten the building line and incorperate 'dummy' georgian windows to house the skelie etc. but still give the sense of Georgian symmetry. - currently it's not symmetrical enough. I'm at the absolute limit of baseplates so the pub carpet has to be red. I've also left the backs of the buildings off to allow some light in to them giving a warmer feel to the whole display.I'd like to hear peoples experiences with lighting their buildings, especially with leaving them on for several hours at a time.. I've only got the old, origonal lighting bricks but can easilly get LED's or similar. The accessory shop has a rather stern shop assistant who works 'in the cage'. This area is where you have to buy the more dangerous objects in the street. (spot who just bought some Indy!!) costume shop on Eurobricks I made the building whilst having discussions with forum member Ralph S on his threads, the influence is obvious in the many of the features - especially the sign which is my first attempt at Lego writing!!. Both of Ralph S and myself seem to be making similar things at the same time via E.B-E.S.P... I saw his thread on his excellent pub just before I put my pics up to Bricklink - spooky!!! Unlike Ralph's, my bar doesn't sell lager and only has cask ales - goodness knows how they get the barrels up the steps I'm experimenting with the order of the buildings and have a space for a further shop but no bricks to build it with The yellow building in the background of some of the pictures is my new mayoral office. I've built it whilst talking to forum member Basiliscus and it has a story so I'll post that later - (I've also noticed that I forgot to take pics of it..duh!) For those (still ) interested, here's my Brickshelf gallery ! I look forward to reading your comments and suggestions. Quote
Lt. Col. Thok Posted July 3, 2008 Posted July 3, 2008 Very impressive (I see you ripped the toilet from the Police HQ )! Quote
xzanfr Posted July 3, 2008 Author Posted July 3, 2008 Very impressive (I see you ripped the toilet from the Police HQ )! I prefer 'borrowed' !! The police station, whilst providing most of the white bricks, has a good toilet and coffee machine in it and it seemed a shame to break them up and put them in to 'Lego storage'.... I just stuck them straight in!!!! I did, however, make the cistern 'from new'. (although it turned our very similar to the 'official' cistern - if there's such a thing!!) Quote
Eilif Posted July 4, 2008 Posted July 4, 2008 Very nice. I'm a sucker for mid-scale (between CC and Town) structures and yours are quite good, especially the first house. The yellow building is nice, but it doesn't seem to be up to the same architecturaly standards as your other two. I can't put my finger on it, but it needs something. Sorry for that vague criticism. Quote
xzanfr Posted July 4, 2008 Author Posted July 4, 2008 Thanks for your comments, Eilif. Any criticism is good criticism Your buildings in the seaside scene are all quite regularised - having a similar footprint and with the frontage all in line. I've been thinking about changing the yellow building to make it georgian and having the fronts all aligned along the street. This should give it a more homogonised feel and also give me the opportunity to build more shops and get rid of one of the garages. Incodently, the yellow building has changed a lot from the one on brickshelf but I agree with you - it is a little bland! I'll have to brush up on my greebles skill!!! Quote
Basiliscus Posted July 5, 2008 Posted July 5, 2008 I've seen some of these pics already and they are great, and some I haven't seen yet which are...um...great! I love the mixture of lower and upper case letters on the 'bAR' sign, and the small tree at the side is great too. I think I can surmise what Eilif means about the yellow house - the tan and white buildings have a lot happening in them with the round 1x1 bricks and the use of SNOT tiles whereas the yellow one doesn't have this intricate detail. If I was you I wouldn't take that as a criticism as it only reflects positively to the standard you've built the tan and white buildings to! Keep it up! One bit of criticism I would make is - your street is far to democratic! El Presidente would not approve! LoL Quote
Shoc Posted July 6, 2008 Posted July 6, 2008 (edited) I love these! They are brilliant constructions! Very nice. I like the bathrooms from the 70's. Hehehe. The bath looks a bit small though, a minifig wouldn't be able to have a bath easily. :skull: Edited July 7, 2008 by Shoc Quote
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