cimddwc

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    Help with identifying parts/sets!

    Looks (on the actual tin plate) like a trans-red "boat stud" 2654 to me, followed by a 32270 gear, though that would be problematic to attach. Maybe a trans-red disc which has a hole, though the gap at the bottom of the black plate looks filled with trans-red.
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    Lego colors - coming and going

    Brickset had an article about that last year:
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    [MOC] Apartment Block House

    Hi everyone, Here's my latest building, a house consisting of multiple blocks in different styles, containing the Lego apartment sets (and more), at the foot of a little mountain that is yet to be built: Let's look inside. There's a tool shop on the left and model toy shop on the right: The tool shop's back room is for special customers only... Downstairs combines a (probably unlicenced) bar (a Star Wars set), a bathroom (a Harry Potter set), and the tool shop owner's apartment (a Marvel set with added bedroom), as well as more of the model shop: The model shop has a good selection for model train fans. (The trains are mostly from older City advent calendars.) Second floor combines a modified Seinfeld apartment and one decorated mostly with leftover furnitures from other sets: Third floor contains the Friends apartments, squeezed a bit. A strange combination with one shared bathroom, big living rooms with kitchens, but they have to sleep on the sofas... Top floor houses a (rearranged) Queer Eye apartment: In its place behind the older small houses: My original idea was to have the blocks go all way along the long side, with long staircase and only one apartment per floor, but that was way too big and too dominant: So I had to make it consist of smaller blocks and 1-2 floors lower, which also allowed me to add two more colors and styles. » Album on Flickr
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    Help with identifying parts/sets!

    Well, you can clip onto the flotation ring/toilet seat 30340, but only in straight direction, and obviously not where the stud is.
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    Straight tracks closer together than eight stud gap?

    Well, two standard curve tracks shift the track by 6 studs, but are about 1 1/4 studs shorter than straights, so unless you can accommodate for that in the entire setup, it doesn't help; 8 pieces of flex track stretch to the proper length with a 4 studs shift without noticeable stress (I'm using this in my setup), but have all the disadvantages of flex tracks. I'm not aware of third-party solutions for this, but would also be interested... If the two tracks come around a corner on both ends of the station - not very realistic in real life, but maybe necessary in a small Lego setup -, you can of course use a single flex track piece or third-party quarter straight before the curve.
  6. Hi everyone, as I said in the "Café, Fashion, and more" post, the market square should soon be finished - here it is: A busy market square on a Saturday afternoon... with two birch trees (after all, my town is called Port Birch), and a monorail station. There's a lot going on: A promotion for some Ninja game (from Ninjago market place); since there's a Star Wars convention in town, there are always some cosplayers around for taking photos with them; a wedding (comes with the Town Hall set, anyway); a hot dog cart. The statue's from a set, the masked saxophone player is fom Vidiyo, more hotdogs, and more people. The trees trunks, by the way, are built around a long Technic brick so I can use them as handles to lift this module. Wavy glass roof on the monorail station - not the most practical thing when it rains from certain directions, but, well, it's art... And a rock wall to the side (not really part of the market square, but I include it in this album anyway) featuring a sawn-up monorail straight as slope extension, small buildings from a Monkie Kid set, the Hidden Side shrimp shack, remainders of Ninjago City and Docks... ...and a mirror "monolith" (anyone still cares about those that popped up in various places some time ago...?), and some sort of art project/escapist refuge where you can live in a cave for one month for free. » Flickr album
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    [MOC] Somewhere over the french streets

    Really beautiful! Lots of great architectural and interior details!
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    [MOC] Café, Fashion, and more

    Hi everyone, my latest building: A modular "double double house", i.e two parts with different facades on front and back. DD fronts by cimddwc, on Flickr Featuring a fashion store, a small ice cream parlor, a café, a waffle shop, and some offices and apartments. And parts of the Winter Village Fire Station set's facade. Possibly the smallest ice cream parlor in town, but, judging by the queue, also the best: Geometry fun fact: the square root of 49+49 is nicely close to 10: The outdoor part of the café continues next to the neighboring building: Inside: Latest fashion from the Beauxbatons collection, a café using parts of an old Friends set, the little ice cream parlor, and the waffle shop uses another Friends set: Upper floor of fashion store: orange astronaut fashion is all the rage; and a lawyer's office in the dark red half: A financial advisor inhabits one side - white-haired customer is waiting, the assistant sits in the middle, and the advisor with a big gold clock in her office. The other half is a small single-room apartment (but still expensive right next to the market square) - the woman apparently doesn't enjoy the TV program as much as her boyfriend, but luckily she got hold of the remote: And on the top floor, there's an apartment spanning the full depth - and the orange astronaut fashion is being produced here in home work: And finally the parents' bedroom under the roof, plus a roof terrace: The narrow part features a small and cramped robotics workshop (an old Friends set) and an apartment spanning two floors. (Seems something was forgotten in the inaccessible space under the stairs...): Between the neighboring buildings, the round pharmacy on the left and the old "Atlantis-style" City Bank on the right: Maybe I should spice up the side windows of the pharmacy a bit. Same buildings on the other side, facing the market square, which will hopefully be finished soon: » Flickr album Hope you like it...
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    [MOC] Café, Fashion, and more

    Minifigure, Footgear Roller Skate (connected to the curved slope above) Plate, Round 1 x 1 (connected to roller skate) Plate, Modified 1 x 1 with Light Attachment - Thick Ring Plate, Modified 1 x 2 with Bar Handle on End - Closed Ends or Plate, Modified 1 x 1 Rounded with Bar Handle Brick, Modified 1 x 1 with Bar Handle Plate, Modified 1 x 1 with Tooth Vertical plus regular plates in between where needed for spacing.
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    [MOC] Café, Fashion, and more

    Thanks, everyone! Well, it's always a compromise anyway. The exterior proportions are smaller than in real life, so either I make properly sized rooms with an apartment spanning two or more full floors, or I make the interior smaller and more cramped. In this case, I chose the latter to get more different functions inside. Sometimes noticing "Oh, i forgot this item", making it even more cramped than intended...
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    Help with identifying parts/sets!

    The first part looks like leaves of 30176 broken off.
  12. Hello everyone, my latest building - with the contents of the Central Perk, Chinese Dinner, and Cloud City sets, hence the title for which I had no better idea... Continued in the back on the left: Street café view - the little tram is from my inclined street scene: The underground hosts teh dungeons or whatever you can call these of Cloud City, i.e. the dark part: Ground floor with Central Perk café and unsuspecting owners and guests: Above the similarly unsuspecting Chinese family having dinner: Above that, back to the secret Star Wars operations: And continued under the roof - the red twin pod is split and ready to launch through the large roof hatch: The decoration on top of the round part is also from Cloud City, of course. Finally a view across the church roof next to good old Green Grocer (with an extra floor): » As usual more photos on Flickr. Hope you like this one, too. :)
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    Help with identifying parts/sets!

    That's just a weight: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=73090b#T=C
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    [MOC] Fine Arts Shop & Newsagent's

    Great! Both the architecture and the interior details. (Though I thought the "messy room" would be messier. ;) )
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    [MOC] Cathedral

    Great! Nice architecture and nice details, and lots of them since it's so big.
  16. Hello everyone, something more modern this time, a high-rise building for the far left corner of my Lego room, thus only built as corner facade. Next to it an similarly cut-off bridge across a brook with a few reused building parts from Ninjago City and Docks. The artwork next to it is the Avengers Tower GWP which I originally intended as rooftop decoration, but that wouldn't really fit style-wise. The back has a rigid Technic spine, continued under the road so I could grab it at the corner under the road and put it in the corner: Inside there's the lobby... ...café... ...office with executive suite... ...flower lady and cosplayer getting ready... ...a bathtub lover and a battle scene... ...smashing a window, here a closeup: (I was one transparent blue panel short...) ...and finally a club with live music (announcement): » Full album on Flickr Hope you like it...
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    Modern high-rise building (corner facade)

    Ah, yes, I think I never showed that here in detail. I'm working on filling the gap next to it (and the two to the left are new, too), so I'll show it a bit closer soon.
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    [MOC] Barbershop

    Really amazing indeed!
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    [MOC] Modular Church

    Hi everyone, here's my modular church - dedicated to the Invisible Pink Unicorn, though architecture-wise, it could be a typical Middle European church. Several architectural ideas were inspired by St. Kilian's Church in Heilbronn, Germany. (Christianity never got many followers in my view of the Lego world because it's just too hard to believe - I mean, crucifixion? When everybody knows that people can't possibly move their arms sideways without ripping them out of their sockets??) The glass windows on the right side: From left to right: some colorful pattern; a non-believer (grey clothes) turned into a believer (pink clothes); socks being raptured; a naive rendition of a pink unicorn; a pizza (partially visible). Top of the spire: That spiral stairs look quite dangerous... Inside: I kinda messed up the lamps - made some mistake and noticed it too late to fix it, so either the lamps are just loosely connected to bars and clips, or hanging freely like here... At least the wedding couple and audience don't care. :) Full interior: An early drawing: Checking how big it could be - comparing it to typical floors (numbers), compared to my round pharmacy. » Flickr album with a total of 40 pictures, including some construction details Hope you like it...
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    [MOC] Modular Church

    Thanks, everyone!
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    [MOD] Bombardier Talent (using set 7938)

    Well done! You made some nice improvements. I removed my paper since then, replacing it with Lego's standard black 1-stud solution. Does your version support vertical movement, i.e. track inclines?
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    [MOC] Cobalt House

    Hi everyone, another house of mine - with two facades since it's visible from both sides, front to a street and back an inside corner at a square. Why "cobalt"? Listing all the contents - accessories store, occult bookstore, clinic (and apartment) - would have been a bit too long, so I played around with the initials A, OB, C, and the dark blue color fits the title, too. Ground floor on the back contains C. Burke Jr's Occult Books and Artefacts - very narrow, so shown here without walls: Featuring bookshelves and people from 76060 Sanctum Sanctorum - and a lot of other stuff. Accessories store is basically Friends set 41344: And the strange clinic is Hoth's Medical Chamber 75203: The family is shocked because of these visitors that nobody expects... I mean, who would really expect some kind of Spanish Praetorian Inquisition? Here it is shown in context in my city layout: » More photos in the Flickr album Hope you like it...
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    [MOC] Cobalt House

    The two in the middle are connected by this: The two on the sides are just snotted to the side walls.
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    [MOC] Cobalt House

    Thanks again! Yes, thanks to a Pick-a-Brick wall. :)