Murdoch17 Posted September 22, 2022 (edited) So I woke up the morning of Sept. 22nd, 2022 to the news Winter Village set 10308 - Holiday Main Street had been revealed. I liked some of it (Trolley FTW!) but the buildings were lacking "something". So, I tried to recreate the music store in LDD to fix what I thought I needed to fix. That quickly turned into full-blown MOC only slightly inspired by the set with a fold-open back wall and vastly different interior. More recently, I revisited it to add in a bay window, elongate the second floor, and revise the troublesome roof with a design inspired by set 10246. (Detective Office modular building) The lower floor has got a sales desk with old fashioned cash register, a scale for weighing packages, and a couple safety deposit boxes. The poster on the wall above the boxes will be a "most wanted" mugshot, for a true post office feel. Moving on, the upper floor is the sorting room, with bunches of drawers for route maps / address change requests / etc., cubbyholes for outgoing mail, and trashcans for dead letters. The table is for where the postal employees do the sorting. The rear of the building has a service door to give access to big trucks for delivery / pickup of cross-country mail. The 8-wide postal delivery vehicle was heavily inspired by free instructions for a 6-wide hi-rail vehicle (called the Stud Inspector) I found at the bottom of this page by Brick train Depot. It really is a cool model, and a neat callback to the "Rivet Counter" trucks you sometimes see on (non-LEGO) model railroad layouts. I added a opening rear loading door, a different color scheme, and (of course) revised it to 8-wide. Thoughts, anyone? EDIT 2/3/23: Revised model, added new pictures. For comparison, here is the original MOC: Edited February 3, 2023 by Murdoch17 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Murdoch17 Posted November 20, 2022 Pictures updated! New MOC... ...and old. Thoughts on this change? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Murdoch17 Posted February 3, 2023 (edited) Sorry for the bump, but here is another revamp, hopefully the last one: The above is the newest model, which you can see more of in the first post. Below are the the two older versions: November 2022 version September 2022 version Edited February 3, 2023 by Murdoch17 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
A_Forest_of_Lego Posted February 4, 2023 Great update! I love the new roof! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Murdoch17 Posted February 4, 2023 27 minutes ago, A_Forest_of_Lego said: Great update! I love the new roof! Thanks! I was inspired to combine the roof from Detective Office with the music store from the WV set by the style of a building in downtown of my home city. (for those wondering what building: 727 North 1st Street, St. Louis, MO is the exact building. It used to be a old warehouse for tobacco, but is now a Old Spaghetti Factory restaurant location on it's lowest level.) Anyway, it has this late 1890's / early 1900's painted cast-iron look to it, and was perfect to be repurposed for my post office. Picture in spoiler of building in question from St. louis City website, but BE WARNED: it is VERY LARGE!! Spoiler Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
