ReplicaOfLife
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Medieval Townhouse with Restaurant & Veterinarian [Modular Building]
ReplicaOfLife replied to ReplicaOfLife's topic in LEGO Town
Thanks @DK_Titan ! Having those overhanging floors was a must. There's some places where you can easily pass each other in small, narrow streets, but up above, the roofs of the buildings almost touch bcause everyone maximized their floor space Thanks It's reddish brown, btw, hope I didn't edit those colors to death...though I did very little editing on these pictures, safe for editing out the background on the exterior shots. I figured out a few MOCs back that doing close-ups with figures in the shot makes for much nicer pictures than just empty buildings. I'm glad you feel the same way! Yes, I actually dismantled some of it, but only for the pics of the ground floor. You can actually see the studs of the exterior wall on the right of the pic with the couple & waiter inside the restaurant . For the upper floors, I just rested the camera directly upon the walls, sometimes zooming in a bit. Thanks, very glad you like it. Looking forward to seeing your first MOC. The sand green part is intended to represent a later addition to the building...rather ironically, as now it has that unused room upstairs ;-) Hope I can gather some support on Ideas, though it will be hard. But ~50 supporters after one and a half days ain't too bad, I think. Tell all your friends! Thanks! Originally, I had planned to only make the roof detachable, and have the front and back walls of the upper floor fixed to the floor. That did not work. At all. A funny side-effect of that is that now there's actually an unpictured piece of furniture for the appartment that separates with the roof... -
Whoa, I remember marveling at that theater a long while back, thanks for digging that out. One of the most ambitious and well-though-through Lego creations I ever saw!
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I can only repeat what everyone above me said - absolutely georgeous building. It's very hard to recreate a classicistic building on a standard modular footprint, but you pulled it off with ease!
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Great work!
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Modular Building Sets - Rumours and Discussion
ReplicaOfLife replied to The Jersey Brick Guy's topic in LEGO Town
Yeah, the flesh building part of DO is alright. The blue building basically is just a staircase with a toilet and a kitchen in it. Thing is, the set doesn't look at all bad from the outside. It's just that what it seems to be portraying, and what actually fits inside are two entirely different things. As for AS, yeah, the upper-floor access through the bakery is propably its its weak point, along with the external staircase. But I can overlook that as the buildings themselves have a decent enough footprint, and the interiors are great. And iIt would be easy enough to mod the set to have an actual, separate and enclosed staircase for those two buildings, whereas DO would require a complete overhaul. -
Modular Building Sets - Rumours and Discussion
ReplicaOfLife replied to The Jersey Brick Guy's topic in LEGO Town
Yep. Those stories, and especially the awful design decisions they led to, are the low point of the entire modular series. DO was already pretty bad, with the blue/brown building being absolutely useless except for the ground floor, but that laundromat section of BB was even worse. The way it's tacked on there is so ridiculous it makes me cringe. Luckily, they seem to have abandoned that with AS and DD. -
Modular Building Sets - Rumours and Discussion
ReplicaOfLife replied to The Jersey Brick Guy's topic in LEGO Town
7 months is quite a lot, actually. Don't forget, they do that for a living. If we project 40h a week, you can get a LOT of design work done in seven months. I never tallied how long it takes me to design a MOC, but I guess it'd boil down to about two to three working weeks of work...about 60-100 hours, approximately. Plus they have others they can consult. -
Modular Building Sets - Rumours and Discussion
ReplicaOfLife replied to The Jersey Brick Guy's topic in LEGO Town
I miss those buildings, too. I bought several copies of the Bike Shop, the Corner Cafe and that last one they did (forgot what it's called) as parts packs, and would have loved it if Lego continued the general theme. The new "modular" 3 in 1 houses are plain rubbish, imho - none of them looks very good, there's not that much you can do with the modular aspect, and some of the features depicted are just ridiculous (a ski slope atop a house? yeah, right...same goes for the skateboard halfpipe.). Plus, due to the design of this modules, they also suck as parts packs. But to be honest, building-wise the Creator line has been going downhill for ages now. Remember wayyy back when they would also release huge family homes and villas? Those just got smaller and smaller, and nowadays they are gone completely. It's a shame, really. -
Thanks for the shoutout above! Much appreciated Not the worst attempt at a modular I've seen on ideas, but if Lego enforces their own rules it'll propably be rejected - piece count is too high (around 3400 pieces according to the submitter).
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All of your work is just incredible. Please keep on with these beautiful creations! Would love to see all those buildings in one place and marvel at all the details.
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Wow, you're on a roll lately! Another great build utilizing a daring color that I'd usually just hide away if I come across some pieces not usable as foliage. Well done again! What's the silver piece you used as decoration above the ground floor windows? Don't think I ever saw that one, its top looks like a tiny frog's head, which works great
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Hm... even though I was very keen to get the Diner asap, its now been sitting here unopened for over a month. I want to really cherish and indulge myself in the build, and so far I haven't found enough time to do that. One of the reasons propably was that I finally found my motivation again and finished deisgning my next MOC . Ordered the missing parts today, can't wait to start with that. Another reason for my tardiness propably is that I#m rapidly running out of proper space to put all the modulars. But, back to topic... my Brick Bank has been sitting around unopened for over two years now . Modding it into a 24-wide straight building will be my next project when my MOC is finished. I'll propably squeeze in the Diner somewhere inbetween.
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LDD 4.3.11 Update Discussion
ReplicaOfLife replied to ImAChangedMan's topic in Digital LEGO: Tools, Techniques, and Projects
Oh wow, just seeing this now! Great news they did another update, finally some new parts! Had no trouble installing it from the setup linked here. This comes just at the right moment, as I finally found motivation to finish planning my next MOC -
Yet another brilliant MOC!. I ordered a few of those light aqua bricks a while back to see them in person, and figured I'd use them rather sparingly as a contrast color. Your building clearly shows they work in larger amounts as well! The interior is very well done, too - I admire your ability to seemingly seamlessly integrate parts of many different sets and themes while still maintaining a coherent style throughout. As for the positioning, the second variant definitely looks better. I like the contrasts in style and level of detail between the individual buildings. It's rather lifelike and allows you to appreciate the detail of each building much better, since they don't compete that much visually. E.g., in the first arrangement, both the Fishmaster and the blue medium building somehow blend together since both have spikey vertical detailing done in light grey. Btw: I'd love to see you do a pictured walk around your city
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How to Design a Modular or a Non-Modular Building?
ReplicaOfLife replied to LegoModularFan's topic in LEGO Town
It's definitely a unique experience. It makes you wonder what went on in the space you live in all those centuries before. ...and it's nothing for people who only like 90° corners, and perfectly even floors -
Just go to the page of oyur picture. In the lower right corner of the image area you'll see four icons, the one with the big arrow is 'share'. Then you just have to select BBCode and the desired size of the image, and the rest is copy/paste of th generated code :)
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This is quite nice. Nicely recalls Market Street in its color scheme, but it's a lot, lot better. Juts wish it was built in real bricks
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How to Design a Modular or a Non-Modular Building?
ReplicaOfLife replied to LegoModularFan's topic in LEGO Town
For me, it has been different with every build. The first one (no pictures online anymore) I put together only from vintage parts I had. The second one - which I consider my first proper MOC - is largely inspired by cimddwcs Chima Trikes Store - the ground floor exterior is an almost exact replica (only adjusted to the dfifferent footprint), and the upper floors take a lot of cues aswell, the most obvious being the tower, of course, which is also very closely modeled after cimddwcs brilliant MOC (and before anyone asks: Of course I asked him permission before I even started planning the building!). The Brownstone coupled together with the Barber Shop part of my DO mod pretty much grew organically. I only knew that i wanted it to be brown, and just started building in LDD. The Outdoor Store had several ideas going into it: The general design with two front gabled parts left and right and a recessed, side-gabled part in the middle, the usage of Dark Orange (since I had decided not to keep my Town Hall, but still wanted a dark orange building) and finally stumbling over the dark turquoise slope pieces on bricklink. The Sideways Building evolved from me playing around with lots of 1x1 medium blue bricks left over after my DO mod was finished, and thinking that it would look cool to use them in that way to create the masonry effect. And my next MOC, which is already finished in LDD except for the interior of two floors, draws inspiration from various buildings in my hometown - most notably the one I live in, a medieval half-timbered house (without exposed woodwork). I modeled the front facade after it very closely. Might still be another few months until that one is finished in real bricks. Right now I find myself kinda lacking in motivation :-/ -
Cool mocs! Captures the brownstone feel pretty good!
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Great work. Usually I'm not a fan of one storey buildings (just not common around here, thus nothing I associate with city centres), but this looks really nice.
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That. Is. Amazing.
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Modular Building Sets - Rumours and Discussion
ReplicaOfLife replied to The Jersey Brick Guy's topic in LEGO Town
The ground floor is smaller, but the upper floors should work fine with the modulars. Given that it is three storeys high, and more substantial, I'd put it nearer the modulars than the Creator buildings with regards to the size of the facade. -
Looks great, Got mine this week, looking forward to building it.
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I'll have to chime in with the majority here: While I DO consider it an offocial modular (if Lego does, why shouldn't I?), I still consider it to be among or propably the worst of the line, for the following reasons: color scheme doesn't work for me at all 'Market' area is empty and thus pointless weird off-color, structured bricks that propably should create a sort of run-down feel, but jsut look out of place stacking two old-school 2x4 windows on top of each other looks rather dumb So does using them directly at ground level the balcony railings look amateurish lack of windows on the back That being said: In the video they did for the 10th anniversary of the modulars, Jamie showed the original design of Maret Street, which was mostly dark red and tan, somewhat a mixture of the color schemes for CC and FB. That looked WAY better than the blue color scheme they went with. And most of the other flaws can be fixed relatively easily. Thus, one of the items on my bucket list of things to do is creating a MOC that echoes that dutch building feel. I'll rpopably borrow a few details from MS for it (e.g. the curved stairs & general facade proprtions), but it will be very different.
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This is propably the best 32-wide PR mod I've seen so far. It's pretty hard to translate the general design principles to a 32-wide without it seeming off in one way or another, and you managed to do that quite well. I rather like the design of the middle windows on the upper floors - the small one-wide windows to the side are a nice touch while and also neatly help avoiding that window from seeming way too wide for it's height.