Gabor Posted July 31, 2013 Posted July 31, 2013 (edited) Hello everyone! My newest MOC is a minifig scaleg airport control tower! I enjoyed buildig it, hope you like it, too! The tower has 3 floors and detailed interior. On the first floor there is a kitchen with a fridge, a coffee maker, a sink, food and a frying pan in it.On the second floor we can find a fire extinguisher, a washbasin and a clean toilet with toilet paper. And on the top of the tower there is the control room! There are 7 chairs and tables in this room for the employees, 6 tables for the operators with tehephones, computers, radios, radar screens and red and yellow mugs, and 1 for the boss with a computer and drawers. There are two binoculars and a fire-extinguisher here, too. This octagon is not exact. First time it moved easily, so I used gray L elements on two side (up and down), and dark grey tiles on the other two sides (left and right) to make it stable. The angles are a little bit more or less, than 45 degrees. This floor is kept by 8 blue technic pins in position. There are the roof's parts and its construction on next pictures. It was difficult, bacause the distance of the octagon's sides is longer than X studs, but shorter, than X+1 studs. Bars can slide in the holes of the small white round plates, and that dark gray L elements helps, too. This pictures show the ladders between the floors. This pictures show, how it is possible to remove the control room. You have to remove firs the window of the toilet, then push the room. Please support the bus on Cuusoo, which transports the tourists to the airport: http://lego.cuusoo.c...deas/view/32505 Thanks for watching! Edited July 31, 2013 by Gabor Quote
Kivi Posted July 31, 2013 Posted July 31, 2013 Nicely done. The control room is really convincing and the flight controllers seem to be very busy. The roof is also very cleverly designed. I also like the details on the lower floors, especially the toilet is interesting - very simple but quite unique. Keep up the good work. Quote
timmyc1983 Posted July 31, 2013 Posted July 31, 2013 Awesome tower! I particularly like the detailed interior, especially the control room, awesome details! And the octagon is very clever, it looks great! Fantastic job and happy building Quote
lightningtiger Posted July 31, 2013 Posted July 31, 2013 Not bad tower there 'Gabor', good luck on Cuusoo with your bus and Brick On ! Quote
jimmynick Posted July 31, 2013 Posted July 31, 2013 This looks very convincing - well done! I like that you were able to get the shape of the windows correct by building the octagon upside-down and then making a good solution for the roof using the bars. Quote
eurotrash Posted July 31, 2013 Posted July 31, 2013 What a great addition to any minifig-scale airport! Quote
Bricksan Posted July 31, 2013 Posted July 31, 2013 That is really cool, so great techniques used. Quote
monsinjor Posted July 31, 2013 Posted July 31, 2013 I love it. Also your techniques. The control room is perfect! Quote
sneff Posted July 31, 2013 Posted July 31, 2013 Great job on the control tower. This is what TLG should include in the airport sets, not some dinky little tower. This would look so much more scale next to the newer gigantic planes. Quote
LEGO Train 12 Volts Posted August 1, 2013 Posted August 1, 2013 Great work with this tower, I like the middle floor with those inner details! Quote
Kristel Posted August 1, 2013 Posted August 1, 2013 Nice control tower, with a very clever technique for the octagon shape! I like how you've fitted out the control room as well. Quote
kermit Posted August 1, 2013 Posted August 1, 2013 Nice moc. I like the upside down techinque you used. The ladder on the bottom does stick out though. The use of stairs would of been a better option. Quote
greg3 Posted August 1, 2013 Posted August 1, 2013 Very nice!! The control room itself is my favourite part and it certainly looks very busy!! Quote
Gabor Posted August 1, 2013 Author Posted August 1, 2013 Thank you very much! I'm happy that you like it! Quote
cloneman155 Posted August 1, 2013 Posted August 1, 2013 Solid work on technique. I love how compact and busy the control room is! Quote
Bart Posted August 4, 2013 Posted August 4, 2013 great design on the controll room and its construction Quote
Jasper Joppe Geers Posted August 14, 2013 Posted August 14, 2013 Makes me think.. wouldn't it be great to have a modular airport? just like we have the houses so far?... Hmmm. Quote
Gabor Posted August 16, 2013 Author Posted August 16, 2013 (edited) Thanks! :) @Jasper: The basic of the modular building system is one house. What is the basic of the mudular airport? Edited July 28, 2014 by Gabor Quote
Jasper Joppe Geers Posted August 16, 2013 Posted August 16, 2013 @ Gabor: Think a bit like Simcity if you like. An airport is a bit more to me than just a landing strip and a hall. The way i see it is a basic set with a tower, hall and strip, that you could expand as you wish. Just like road plates there could be parts to create a smaller or bigger strip, all on a 32 x 32 basis. I don't think TLC would ever consider it as serious, but i think it could work. :) Quote
danimarroquin Posted August 17, 2013 Posted August 17, 2013 nice job , just need to finish the bottom of it and will good to run Quote
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