early 1900's-style town buildings MOC's and MOD's - updated 2/28

[Murdoch17]

I got a copy of set 76388 - Hogsmeade Village Visit on Saturday the 5th of February from the LEGO Store in my town. It will be heavily modified to fit into my existing setup, with back halves added to the buildings, same as I did to set 10217 - Diagon Alley set and heavily inspired by the style of 10193 - Medieval Market Village (both sets of which I've owned for over a decade now!) for use in my early-to-mid 1900's-town. You can find all those buildings, along with a few more, below.

The Leviathan Inn

Here are the pictures of "The Leviathan", which is supposed to be a bar / inn of some sort, and was formerly known as "The Three Broomsticks" pub. This building has a newly added back half and revised details on the inside, including more bench seating, a few beds upstairs, steam heat, drink dispenser tap, and a much-needed cash register.

Side note: One of the dark green windows is backwards in this picture and has since been rotated into its proper place.

The rear of the model. Unlike the revised Candy Shop, this building opens up to 180 degrees, allowing for the building's inside details to be more accessible.

The entire rear half is new, along with most of the building's furniture and all the printed parts.

Inside on the upper floor is a few beds for weary travelers, with two beds and two chairs. The room also features a steam-heater modeled after the one in the 2008 Modular Building, set 10185 - Green Grocer. The lower floor has tripled it's seating with two more "picnic" benches. I also added a drink tap to the counter beside a cash register. (the latter feature was sorely missing from the original set!)

Wonka Candy Shop

This is a rebranded Honeydukes from set 76388 - Hogsmeade Visit with a back half to the building and a (NEW) second sales floor added on. The name WONKA will go over the front door in printed 1 x 1 tiles I don't have in LDD, along with quite a few other parts missing from this model.

...and yes, that's supposed to be Willy Wonka standing out front of the shop.

Rear view of the building. (Wonka should really look into getting that roof fixed as you can practically see inside the attic!) Also, the building can only open up to 90 degrees for inside access due to the overhanging structure of the roof and a few other items.

This store has everything; a wall of Everlasting Gobstopper's in the four flavors, Scrumdidilyumptious bars, Square Candies That Look 'Round, new-formula Fizzy-Lifting drinks, a Wonka chocolate fountain, Exploding Candy (for your enemies), Lollipops of all kinds, and many more items. (Ok, so I didn't design most of the items in here. square candies and the Gobstopper wall are all I added of consequence to the inside. The rest of the sweets are repurposed / duplicated from the set, but they ARE in there.)

Octan Gas Station (and 1920's fuel tanker truck)

Here is my WIP version of my gas station and early tanker truck. I added a back wall to the building, made it look more late 1920's / early '30's by adding painted wooden siding, and removing the Christmas-time items as were originally installed by the designer. Also, several printed items are missing in this picture that will be added later. (Thanks to my brother who gave me the new 32 x 32 road plate for this project.)

The truck was originally from set 10222 - Winter Village Post Office, while the building is inspired by Brick City Depot's Winter Village Gas Station, which you can see at their website.

The Captain's Daughter Tavern

This English style tavern was built from set 10193 - Medieval Market Village, and expanded by my brother to have an inside staircase and a better chimney.

Rear view of this building.

The inside of the model features a Frog on the bar (for no real reason), a inside staircase, and a bunch of seating on the second floor. Their is a gumball machine on the second floor at the top of the stairs.

Backwash Bros. Saloon

This model was inspired by set 79109 - Colby City Showdown from the 2013 Lone Ranger theme. I turned the 1 story bank into a 2 story saloon, complete with two lift-away sections to access the inside. This picture is from 2015, and the "neon" Saloon sign no longer exists.

The first floor features the bar with old fashioned cash register, and a staircase to more seating on the second floor.

The second floor features more seats and a piano. This level was originally supposed to be a game room, filled with pool tables and poker dealers. Unfortunately, the room never happened as the space constraints left too little space to place figures.

The Adventuring Surplus Store

This building was originally part of set 10217 - Diagon Alley, specifically Ollivander's wand Shop. I added a rear to the building and redid the interior to have more of an adventure supply / military surplus store. The store is currently owned and run by Bob from LEGO Universe, and features a few items from the game inside.

The rear of the store features the back door.

The shop only opens 90 degrees instead of 180, due to the roof being in the way. Inside we have weapons of various origins, from deep space to the distant past. Upstairs is the clothing section, with several space suits and battle armor on display.

My Sig-Fig's House

This building was originally the Blacksmith's shop from set 10193 - Medieval Market Village released back in 2009. I got it in 2011, near the end of it's production run. It has been turned into my mini-figures house, complete with furnished interior.

Here is the rear of the house, continuing the wooden patterns from the front.

The inside of the building features a couch, bed and a pot bellied stove. Their is a staircase, which was completely missing in the original set.

Johnny Thunder's "Adventurers, Inc." Office (and Johnny's car)

This Adventurers model was inspired by my original Johnny Thunder office building from 2015. I modified it into a corner building with a tower like in set 10255 - Assembly Square.The building is modular, and comes apart into three sections: roof, second floor and main floor. This model is my actually second tallest creation, as it's shorter than Lord Sam Sinister's Mansion and only slightly taller than my Saloon.

The lower floor features a cabinet from set 10228 - Haunted House and a 1920's style ivory phone borrowed from set 10218 - Pet Shop. A hat rack (also from the Pet Shop set) is next to the wall opposite the desk.

The far wall features some treasure from Johnny and his friends many adventurers, such as the Golden Shield from "Orient Expedition", a T-Rex tooth from "Dino Island", a trident from the "Quest for Atlantis", the replica hammer of the Thunder god from the "Age of Ragnarok", the helmet of a dwarf from "The Search for Middle Zealand", and many others artifacts.

the upper floor features Johnny's bed, a stove, table with root beer bottle, and a radio / record player.

This concludes my buildings I've built since 2013 that I still have built, with more to come. A few of these pictures are from 2015 and 2017... but I'll let you guess which ones. 

Any Questions, complaints, suggestions, etc. are welcome!

Edited February 28, 2022 by Murdoch17

[Murdoch17]

First post updated 2/12/22: The few remaining 76388 tavern MOD parts were ordered on the 11th of February.

Here is some photographic proof I have the set needed for my planned modifications of these buildings, including putting a matching back section on the pub, and adding a second floor + rear half to the candy shop.

In this picture you can see all 352 bricks left to find / order for my changes to Honeydukes sweet shop since I have the original 76388 set. I started out at 1015 parts for the whole building, so I have found or purchased 663 pieces for this model.

All the parts I ordered for the Tavern. This model should be built in about a week, more or less. This candy shop will have to wait a few weeks before it is ordered because of funds.

Stay tuned for more updates next week!

[Murdoch17]

Okay, so it took a little longer than a week to get the final parts, but the Leviathan has been added, along with about six other buildings from my past that also fit the bill.

See it all in the first post!

[whitepen]

Nice buildings!