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The road looks great. Always been a fan of your layout (really love all the tiles!) and that road work just adds the next level. Also enjoyed getting a look at your upsized Assembly square.

I turned my apartment building from the Pet Shop into an inverted corner IMG_1714 by Adrian, on Flickr They present their own challenges, you pretty much lose the footpath and unless you do add the extra 16x32 plate on one side, there is very little facade to face the street. I don't see Lego ever actually releasing one, most people display their modulars in a straight line, or in a standard city block, an inverted corner makes it turn the other way which doesn't work for most collectors. They are also very brick intensive due to the extra size of the back wall, which typically isn't very detailed as people don't generally see the back. It would provide a lot of internal space for play scenarios though/

That is a great tower, very inspiring. I'm a huge fan of curves and weird angles on Lego builds, and this has both!

I'm a huge Spaceballs fan, but as much as I would love an Eagle 5 set, I just don't see it being made. Apart from the rumoured deal between Brooks and Lucas that prohibits any merchandise (hence the joke about it in the movie), I doubt it would pass brand fit as there is a bit of swearing and innuendo, plus it isn't that well known outside of it's cult following, not like some of the other 80s movies that have passed that have a much wider audience, even today. Apart from the above reasons, it surely would tick all the boxes in regards to size and build quality, it would even fit better into town layouts than most of the other Ideas sets as it is 6 wide instead of 8 That's because most of the builders grew up in the 80s when these movies/shows were screening and we all have very found memories of them. I'd love to see the Voltron model too, that cartoon was great.

The paper roads do the job nicely, sure, they're a little shiny on the closeups, but agree with legoguy1984 that they look like it's just rained, which is actually quite a cool effect. Your whole city looks good, but I really like the greyscale cafe corner too, a full modular street in that scheme would be a really cool display feature

Those new panel pieces do make shipping containers look a lot better

I've recently bought two sets of the Grand Emporium and Pet Shop modular buildings and wanted to increase the size of each. I started with the Grand Emporium and thought it would look great as a 48x48, and I think it does: The original plan was to have the roof so that the standard GE levels can be added to the top to build up for display purposes, but that didn't work because of the dual escalators. I will have to work on it though. I then moved onto the Pet Shop brown building. I wanted an inside corner building to fit in with the layout I'm working on. I couldn't quite get it to work with an eight stud footpath on either side, so I just moved the baseplate off centre and created a walkway between the buildings: The right hand side is only changed at the front door and the doorway to the left hand side. The top level hasn't been change at all, so for displays I will be able to add in extra 2nd levels to make that side much taller. I was very happy with how the front door turned out, it is just a stanard 6x4 doorway on a turntable, with 45 slopes snotted onto the walls so as to leave no gap. It is actually a perfect fit and the door still opens. Here's a photo of the modulars set up, I haven't decided what to do with the shop building yet, probably just add extra levels and leave it as standard 16x32.

Naptown11, my cinema only has 1 screen, but I put a wall up between it and the stairwell to form a hallway section. My city has changed a lot since this topic was started. The last lot of decent photos are on my Flickr account, but even they are a bit out of date as I forgot to take my good camera to our last show. My Grander Emporium is no more, though the facade still lives on (partly) as a 32 wide hotel, standing in place of the Pet Shop, which is long gone. My Agents building now stands where GE was on the GBHQ has replaced the old Fire Brigade. 20160304_212701 by Adrian, on Flickr 20160304_212643 by Adrian, on Flickr I did take a video of the whole layout, I will try and upload it later so you can get an idea of everything.

When I first put my city together, I moved the modulars to the edge of the baseplate and then tiled the studs next to the road, but this doesn't work for the corner buildings and the modular system quickly falls apart. So I moved everything back to where it was and tiled the lot. At a few places in my city I have used the extra space for parking bays, otherwise it just gives more room for the minifigs walk and for adding details like street lights and eventually some greenery. IMG_1690 by Adrian, on Flickr I also like the idea that some people have done, and used the extra space for a bike path. In the more suburban area of my city, I have used the studs on the side of the roadplate to put a row of grey tiles, to simulate the kerb, then a row of green (for grass) then a 2x row for a concrete footpath and then another 2x row of green

That is seriously impressive. I've made some round buildings, so I understand the challenges, and the detailing in this is amazing and to have solid floors on each level must have taken some working out. A job well done

That's a great idea, lots of my AFOL friends struggle to get their displays set up due to nowhere to do it, but this allows the garage to be used for both car and LEGO storage. And once your display is finished, just drop it onto the back of a flatbed ute and drive it to a show - no setup required. I look forward to seeing how your layout progresses.

I like it. Great stlying, great colours, it all just works. The curved window looks great and the pattern above it, while subtle, really adds something extra to the whole building. That zig zag pattern with the cheese slopes is a work of art.

Great use of the Kwik-e-Mart as the ground floor, and I really like the modern building, the tiled exterior looks great. All Hail the One Long Orange Object

I decided it was about time my city had a more substantial train station, so using 60050-Train Station as a base I created something a bit more majestic. I still have some work to do as I am missing a few pieces to finish off the roof of one of the buildings and I need to re-arrange my train tracks to account the extra building. I hope you like it, all comments and suggestions are welcome. IMG_4265 by Adrian, on Flickr IMG_4252 by Adrian, on Flickr IMG_4253 by Adrian, on Flickr IMG_4254 by Adrian, on Flickr IMG_4255 by Adrian, on Flickr I was quite happy with how the logo turned out too IMG_4263 by Adrian, on Flickr There are a few more photos on my Flickr stream here.

So glad this service is still available, I find it a very useful tool for buying larger quantities of rare pieces. I was a bit worried when I tried to show it to a fellow AFOL a couple of days ago and it wasn't there. I don't really understand why they don't just merge it with Pick-A-Brick though, having one site for all purchases would make a lot more sense.

That back really is horrible. Considering the rest of the building was double walled, you would have thought they'd do that to the back as well. Will definitely have to work out a way to fix that before I put this on my layout as it will be visible. I actually may squish the whole building so that it sits 8 studs from the front rather than 5 so that it's inline with all my other buildings. It won't matter if I lose the opening functions or the interior layout as that won't be seen anyway (which is a shame as there is a lot of great details). So that will make it easier to put an extra row of bricks at the back Those brown doors on the lockers look great and will no doubt come in handy for other builds, hopefully they will pop up in other sets as they would make a great wooden front door for a house. There is obviously a line of tiles below the top floor, but only on the outside. I wonder why they are used instead of plates as they don't go around the full building so its not to take the level off.

I think the Obi-Wan head will work better as it has the reddish hair rather than straight brown. Luckily I have a couple of these so I will definitely be making a Walter Peck for my set. Since the doors open inwards, I think I'll just have the car half-in so that it can be seen. Unless you are going to display the set open (which I would assume most people will not) having the car fit fully inside just means you don't get to see it. I think they've done a wonderful job of detailing this build, all the little scenes from each of the movies is great. Obviously printed tiles (at the very least for the sign) would have been better, but considering the price is already out of a lot of people's reach, they obviously decided to try and reduce costs where they could, and printing is probably the easiest way to save. I've got the perfect corner spot for this on my layout, so it will slot straight in. A lot of my builds (including my modulars) are 48x48 anyway, so the extra depth won't affect me. I think the extra depth will work quite well with the rest of the modulars anyway as it would create a large area behind them all to put in an alleyway or delivery area or something. Now I just need scale versions of Mr Stay Puft and the Statue of Liberty. A good idea for a smaller play set would be the roof-top battle against Gozer (as we need her in a mini-fig) or in the museum for GBII to get Janosz and Vigo in minifig.

I was annoyed by my Brickset set list including the CMF that I owned, so I took them out and added them to a special list that I created. I did the same for the Friends sets that I have as I wanted to keep them separate as well. You own 254 sets, 213 different. We have piece counts for 212 of them. You own 129827 pieces. Friends sets is at 59 Parts list is way out due to numerous bulk part purchases over the years. I do agree that sets owned can be distorted due the way it treats each CMF as a separate set and owning 100 polybags is a lot different to owning 100 large scale sets. I guess that's when you look at the piece count and you work out an average piece count per set. Since a fair share of my set purchases are really just for parts, the number I sets I own according to my list doesn't really mean that much unless I wanted to build them all to sell individually (but if I did that, I wouldn't care as I would no longer have a reason to go on)

Naiaville is quickly becoming a very modern city. The Grander Emporium has been torn down and in it's place a modern office building has been erected. With it's sleek lines and shape the Agents quickly claimed it for their Headquarters. 0001 by Adrian, on Flickr 0002 by Adrian, on Flickr 0003 by Adrian, on Flickr 0004 by Adrian, on Flickr 0005 by Adrian, on Flickr 0006 by Adrian, on Flickr I also built a new small helicopter to fit on the helipad of the building 0007 by Adrian, on Flickr The build isn't modular, though the top section does come off easily as it won't fit in my transport boxes fully built. As this will form part of a much larger City layout at 5-6 shows a year, once again I haven't built an interior and the building is totally empty inside. The rounded sections are achieved using hinge plates. Angled builds always present a challenge when trying to put on a roof, but I'm fairly happy with how this one has turned out. I'm not sure the top section quite works though. I do like the build of it, but not sure it fits well with the rest of the building. As always, your comments and suggestions for improvement are greatly appreciated.

Great work, the tile/profile brick combination works really well. The colour combo is really good and that's a neat hose reel you made in the back yard.

Looks great. This sure does look better on a bigger scale The shelving is a really cool design, very well done with that.

I've gotten into mosaics recently, we want something different for the various shows we do. I've made three so far based on LEGO minifigs, but will probably do a scenery piece or something next. Benny - 96x96 Benny by Adrian, on Flickr Angry Kitty - 96x48 Angry_Kitty by Adrian, on Flickr Boba Fett - 48x48 Boba_Fett by Adrian, on Flickr

I bought two of the DO and was thinking of many different ways to put them together for a bigger building. In the end I decided to keep the basic layout as per the set and just extend either side out by 8 studs. I was also able to use many of the extra bricks to build another level. I did have to use some bricks and windows from my spare parts to build the extra level, but after finishing off the roof, I probably could have used a lot of those extra parts rather than my own. Det Off by Adrian, on Flickr The extra width allowed me to put a dividing wall in the office, so now there is a desk for the secretary out front (the top floor is currently empty though) I also put in an extra chair into the barber shop, added an extra cupboard and put in some waiting chairs and a central island counter. This building will not be with the other modulars in my layout, but more of a stand alone building, so any height differences are irrelevant at this stage. (it will also solve the Al's Pets issues other people are having)

Great work. The colour scheme really works, especially the rainbow centre, and the carriages are fantastic. I hope you're going to do a fairground layout to put everything in. I missed this as it was in my dark ages too, but just looking at the parts list, I think it will stay missed, I don't have the patience to bricklink so much stuff.

That looks great. The coaster goes a lot faster than I expected it would, I wonder what sort of speed that would be if scaled for human use.