rockethead26 Posted July 1, 2014 Posted July 1, 2014 Hi folks, My wife and I have been building LEGO modulars (heck, any LEGO) for about 5 months now. We will be putting together our own town with trains over the next year(s) and I decided that my first attempt at a MOC would be a 3-4 story Lord Business HQ that would hold the movie sets 70809 (Lord Business' Evil Lair) and 70801 (Melting Room). I spent all day yesterday and about half the day today putting this together and learning my way around LDD. I put a lot of work into this without building the Evil Lair to see if it would fit area wise, so I hope I don't have to redo too much once I do. One or more of the upper floors will need to be somewhere around double height to accommodate the tall models. I'm thinking the upper floors will be mostly glass so we can see into the evil lair on the top floor. This is the first floor and the model is on a 32x48 base. The first floor is the nice part of the building that visitors will see and is done "corporate nice" in Octan colors. Piece count so far is 1286. This is by no means meant to model the HQ tower in the movie. The space in the left rear corner is a non-operational elevator. So far, I have the following issues: 1) Somehow I missed a row of studs on the side of the base plate. I've only looked at this thing for two days and I just now noticed it. 2) No solid doors that I can find for the public bathrooms that don't require a side hinge. I didn't allow for that as I thought that surely there would be solid 1x4x6 doos available that fit the standard frame. 3) I forgot to carry the green mid-line inside the building around the entryway side of the conference room. Looking forward to figuring out the plate structure for the floor of the second story. I want to make this modular so that each floor can be lifted off. I purposely left off the technic pins on the first row of bricks as I don't intend to attach this to another modular. Please let me know what you think and I will take any and all suggestions as I am a complete newbie. I will continue posting to this thread as I complete more of the building. Here are some pics: Quote
CardinalBricks Posted July 1, 2014 Posted July 1, 2014 I was recently on LDD where I haven't been for months, and there were lots of new parts... Mixels pieces, corner tiles, and a lot of the CMF accessories. There was also a solid 1X4X6 door in flesh like in the Simpson's House (that was the only solid color they had) Maybe that would work good for your bathroom if you can find it. Quote
rockethead26 Posted July 1, 2014 Author Posted July 1, 2014 I was recently on LDD where I haven't been for months, and there were lots of new parts... Mixels pieces, corner tiles, and a lot of the CMF accessories. There was also a solid 1X4X6 door in flesh like in the Simpson's House (that was the only solid color they had) Maybe that would work good for your bathroom if you can find it. I'll look. Thanks for the heads up. Quote
weeble1688 Posted July 1, 2014 Posted July 1, 2014 Sorry to correct you, but it's not that you forgot a row of studs at the side of your building - it's that at some point one of your baseplates moved over 1 stud. The reason I say this is that I doubt you purposely built with a stud's worth of space in between your baseplates.It is an easy mistake to make - I know, I've done it plenty without noticing until something didn't work right. I first noticed it on the back view of your building, which by the way looks polished and business-like. Quote
rockethead26 Posted July 1, 2014 Author Posted July 1, 2014 Sorry to correct you, but it's not that you forgot a row of studs at the side of your building - it's that at some point one of your baseplates moved over 1 stud. The reason I say this is that I doubt you purposely built with a stud's worth of space in between your baseplates.It is an easy mistake to make - I know, I've done it plenty without noticing until something didn't work right. I first noticed it on the back view of your building, which by the way looks polished and business-like. Weeble, You were correct! I guess I slid it over by mistake. Sometimes I highlight and grab the wrong thing to move it around. It was a simple fix! Thank goodness I'm not that unobservant! Thanks for the complement on the rear of the building. I guess I need some work on the front ;-) I appreciate your help! Quote
rockethead26 Posted July 1, 2014 Author Posted July 1, 2014 BrickRally, I found the part number for the Simpson's door and it is in LDD. The color is not right for my building, though. While looking at that door, I noticed that it was listed as a glass door even though it is opaque. I pulled in one of the other "glass" doors and it turns out that it was opaque white. Perfect. Thanks for getting me to experiment. I guess I shouldn't put too much confidence in the naming of the parts in LDD. Thanks again! Two problems solved. Quote
rockethead26 Posted July 1, 2014 Author Posted July 1, 2014 Did a little redesign on the front and added the solid bathroom doors. What changed on the front: 1) Repositioned design element bricks on top row to better match up with the windows. 2) Changed out the dark green palisade bricks for the earth green profile bricks 3) Added another 2x2 window on each side of the front doors and removed the green accent bricks. I think the front looks much better now. Comments? Quote
weeble1688 Posted July 3, 2014 Posted July 3, 2014 I didn't mean to imply that only the back looked polished and professional, but meant instead the whole building. However, I do like the improvements you've made to the front, especially the decorative pieces now lining up with the windows. Can't wait to see the next floor! Quote
rockethead26 Posted July 4, 2014 Author Posted July 4, 2014 (edited) I didn't mean to imply that only the back looked polished and professional, but meant instead the whole building. However, I do like the improvements you've made to the front, especially the decorative pieces now lining up with the windows. I did not take it the wrong way at all and I'm glad you like the changes. Can't wait to see the next floor! Well, you didn't have to wait long, here's the second floor update pics: Setting up the Melting Room took a lot of time, especially figuring out how to install pieces at odd angles. I couldn't resist putting a break room next to the melting machinery so the robot cops have a place to get a hot cup of coffee while their maintaining the equipment for the next session. I'm really having fun with this. I want to figure what to do about putting a large monitor screen on the wall in front of the computer station. Maybe 8x12 studs or so. I wouldn't know what to put on it, maybe a blue screen of death ;-) Piece count is 2369 including the three mini figures and the 122 pieces of the melting room set. Edited July 4, 2014 by rockethead26 Quote
rockethead26 Posted July 6, 2014 Author Posted July 6, 2014 The third floor is complete except for a double layer of plates . It needed to be a double-double floor for height purposes. I could put in some elements from the Evil Lair .lxf file that's available, but even though it should fit with a 2 stud margin, I couldn't get the main Kragle assembly to anchor to the floor. I tried various things for almost two hours to no avail. It really doesn't matter as I was just trying to install it to check for fit. I'll have some leeway when I actually build this as I can make minor modifications to how pieces are attached to make it all work. Looks like the top of the Kragle assembly will reach to within a brick or so of the ceiling. I've decided to put a ritzy penthouse apartment on top of the building for Lord Business. That will take me a while as I have no idea what I'm going to do yet so updates to this thread will be slow in coming. This building will be a lot taller than I originally thought. Current piece count including the melting room and the parts of the evil lair set is now at 4055. Here's a LDD screen shot: Quote
rockethead26 Posted January 21, 2015 Author Posted January 21, 2015 Finally got around to start building the Evil Lair Corporate Building. Just finished the ground floor. I had to change a few things from the LDD design. 4x5 windows are no longer available so I had to use multiples. I initially tried the standard 4x6 windows, but it wasn't going to work with the level of the front entry. As per a suggestion here, I added one brick of height to the walls. The trans-green bricks for the receptionist's counter were unavailable, so I went with trans clear. Also, the tan chairs are nowhere to be found, so I had to use reddish brown in the board room. Finally, the doors on the bathrooms were no longer available either. I'm currently putting together the order for the second floor which will hold the Melting Room set. The building is on 1 1/2 plates, so 32x48 studs. Here's some pics: Quote
rockethead26 Posted January 22, 2015 Author Posted January 22, 2015 I decided that the entryway needed some work as it was a bit boring. Quote
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