MOC: Tenement Facade

[Carbohydrates]

I've been busy with life, work, and a couple other hobbies, so I haven't been around or worked on anything in a long time. Well, last night I was inspired by the relatively new masonry-textured 1x2 and decided to design something that was detailed by texture, not color. I've had this idea to build a street/scene in grayscale for a while, and this is a start. I own very few bricks right now so I'm stuck building in LDD for the time being.

I had two rules: 1) No color. Black, gray, dark gray, and white only. 2) No metallic, transparent, or anything but plain old solid colored bricks. I wanted stark, drab tones and didn't want to introduce anything reflective or shiny.

Anyway, here's what I came up with. I figure I could write up a bunch of words about the build process and what was easy and what was difficult, but I think the photos speak better than I can!

[The Blue Brick]

This is absolutely great. I really like the monochrome of the building being just different shades of grey. The new brick bricks just add that perfect touch to it too.

Overall, this is a amazing job and i would love to see it in real bricks.

[streifen]

That MOC is nice! The colour scheme would have been appropriate for a pre-colour tv/photo look. Add in some minifigs in the colours of which you have specified and we could be watching a 1930s movie.

Sidetrack a bit: the newly textured bricks look great but the fact that they only come in 1 x 2 makes it hard to "finish" off a building without using the normal bricks unless you intend to clad the ends with tiles. I am hoping that 1 x 1, 1 x 3, etc bricks will be out soon.

[soccerkid6]

Cool idea to use only greys,black and white The building itself looks very nice, I like the balconies and black accents especially