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    Thanks @Roadmonkeytj , good to hear you still like 4Ws! Thank you @LEGO Train 12 Volts I used it first in the below building so I didn't have to think this time! LEGO Money Laundering Launderette 02 by David D, on Flickr @Evans I used Technic half-pins. The little blue ones that are very common as spares in lots of sets. I like your design a lot and how you have incorporated the backend equipment and tank. I will look to mod my cement mixer to improve this.
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    Thank you for the positive comments guys, much appreciated! @LEGO Train 12 Volts Glad you like the billboard. I thought it was worth trying and for me it turned out better than expected :)
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    I started this a little into the new year and let me say the good thing about a building site MOC is it doesn't have to look finished to be so. Woohoo! I realised then that I had never made a building site MOC which seemed a dereliction of duty considering building buildings is what us AFOLs do right? Being firmly stuck in the past when it comes to LEGO dimensions (the mathematical measurement method, not the game console games) I like to build 4-wide vehicles and so generally build buildings to a slightly smaller height than is common these days. Way back in 2007 or thereabouts I picked up the Tower Crane set (#7905). Looked great on the box but to be kind to it it looked terrible when included into my city at the time (like the Eiffel Tower did). Size of course was the big problem, too high and too wide, detraction. Conscious that the scale needed to fit be appropriate to the style of my city and also that the road needed to connect to another road the building site area was quite restrictive at 24x34 studs. This made it a little tricky to fit in everything (actually I didn't include any external scaffolding or portable cabin as a result of having no space to put it but in the end I added a further 16x48 baseplates to accommodate the roofed hoarding and side lane) but I find the restrictions made the build overall more enjoyable as there a little challenges here and there. The tower crane is 5x5 studs which itself introduces a few problems mainly related to the attachment of the ladders and boom. Two counterweights for the boom are used, one the official weight black brick but seeing that in reality you usually see grey concrete slabs (or things that look like concrete slabs) being used I tried to replicate this look. The big problem here was the simple fact that my counterweights combined were not heavy enough to support the boom with any significant load. So off I went to raid the tool box and filled a revised hollowed counterweight with nails (see here). Speaking of booms, the builders built this in record time to cash in before the next crash. Hope you Town fans and 4-wide loyalists out there like this build. Happy to hear people's thoughts or comments on it! I will look to replace these waste shoots with a white or another colour version at some point, just to add a splash of colour, not that too much LBG is bad or anything. Would like the 1x1x2 cylinders used for the streetlights not to have cutouts. Got the calculator out and the office area is accurate. Made a little microscale version of the 'finished building' for this billboard. The construction company logo is the jumping frogs. Maybe because they jumped legal hoops to avoid being prosecuted on health and safety grounds? Finally can get that Welder to work! Also you can look down the dry riser. Someones's not happy. Fact. All tower crane operators end up with glasses due to eye strain despite in cabin cameras. Just made that up.. The view from above. Please make sure your figs are not afraid of heights before looking down.
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    Thank you Lucarex. I would say we have a fair few similar looking buildings in inner city Dublin today. Thank you Beverly. A one-stop laundering location is a good business slogan The trash bags are official LEGO sacks I had a bunch in medium dark flesh but was very happy to see them issued in black for this purpose. The custom parts used are guns, police clothing and the 2 broken bottles on the roof and footpath.
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    Thanks AFOLguy1970! When I first saw those Saturn V printed tiles I was hoping they might look well as a sign so I'm glad you like it.
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    Very glad you like the general feel to the MOC LegoModularFan and thank you for your kind words! The building is modular too I should add although there are only 2 floors in the main building of course. The various roofing parts do pop off however which is useful for moving around the little people.
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    I’ve always believed that that little minifigs can be big criminals and so I present the Money Laundering Launderette. This is a MOC I wanted to build for quite some time now and use up those spare (unfortunately LEGO) 100 dollar notes I have lying around. The scene is pretty simple, the good guys (the police) have surrounded and are about to raid the Soap n’ Suds launderette, a front company for a crime organisation involved in smuggling contraband clone brands and dangerous addictive plastic substances among other things. An accountant who works for the gang and two heavily armed gunmen are deciding whether to fight or flee (presumably through the backdoor into the boiler room and out into the adjoining yard but who knows…) Two oblivious customers are also downstairs. The launderette does also actually wash clothes with 6 large 10kg capacity washing machines and dryers. Washes from €5, wash and dry €8. Special thanks to miniBIGS, BrickArms and BrickForge for the custom parts. More pictures of the inside on Flickr
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    Great to see the latest news however everytime I read these updates the tune of Balamory pops into my head
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    Looks great. Really liking that stairs.
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    Very nice and slick. Fine job.
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    I'm looking for my sunglasses already...
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    This is excellent and as others have said the exterior and interior colour combinations are just right. The details inside give it a great bustling atmosphere. Is this based on a real bar? My only possible recommendation is that perhaps the bar-stools should not have a back on them (ie maybe use round 2x2 plates rather than seats)? On this side of the pond barstools would tend to have no back but perhaps they do where you are or perhaps they just look better using the seats. Can I ask is that mirror pane from a current set?
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    The white car looks excellent, especially with that spare tyre. Slick designs capped off with a firm handshake. Good job.
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    You have captured the evolution superbly here. The finer details such as the tile designs are top notch, well done.
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    You've done a fine job with this. Particularly like the corner building's colour coordination. The cheese store's ground floor exterior is excellent and those plant techniques are clever too, I'll be using those ideas.
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    This is great. Interesting how the bricks on their side to show the studs look very well in this building. Its a good size for a neo-classical style building and uses the planet semi-sphere proportionally very well. I particularly like the neatness of the crypt / tomb. Very well done. My only suggestion is not to use flash and only take photographs under a very bright light, the close ups with Macro on and the camera's Indoor setting selected. Kudos.
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    Looks great and the stickers have been made and applied very well! I'm sure that was fun. Nice street scenes too.
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    Thanks everyone for the feedback! @STHLM yes, I agree with your point of view here, some variance to the path could add something. @Captain Genaro as it is relatively large I plan to have it off to one side (in the suburbs).
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    Thanks everyone for the comments and interest in this build! Great to get some feedback. I have seen the blinds and glass barriers done this way before from other builders so kudos for the original idea goes out to them. The apartment exterior was built initially with no intention to do an interior so retrofitting the block was a challenge, probably the biggest of which was attempting to achieve a fairly spacious look with in reality quite cramped spaces. The living room and bedroom were most trouble here as the available space was very small. @Delbaerov this is the reason for the lack of a washroom although as mentioned in my initial post a number of apartments have a toilet and all, it is just this feature is a real luxury. The other tricky feature was accommodating the many windows, especially in the kitchen. This forced the relocation of the fridge in the eating area as a fridge up against the kitchen window wouldn't look too good. @antp yes, that's exactly it. @eanair thank you! It is loosely based on apartments around here. Before I started clicking bricks I googled 'apartments' and 'dublin' for some ideas!
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    Happy Holidays Everyone! My town has finally got what it was missing, a more habitable apartment complex that has some green space (a rarity due to a severe land shortage problem). Ending the long tradition of single-room flats the new spacious units include a mind-boggling 4 rooms. Some even have toilets, although these cost extra. The development consists of 12 apartments, 3 stacks of 4 built one on top of another. Around 1,500 dark tan masonry bricks were required. As these are more expensive than standard bricks some believe they were intentionally used to funnel state aid to mining companies although this could be just a conspiracy theory. Despite the obvious design improvements however most of my minifigs are not happy at all which is not a surprise really as they can’t afford one. The few that can are also not happy do to bad choices when picking friends. Hope you like the build. David Edit: it didn't take long for my 2 year old daughter to dip her hand into interior decorating
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    Firstly a great build - no matter the colour. It isn't easy possible to capture a real building's exact colour simply because LEGO colours are so limited. I think the choice of tan is probably best to allow some contrast and judging by the second photo it looks more than acceptable. It appears the actual colour is somewhere between a White and a Tan but there's been a lot of fading in the real building, just look at that 'black roof'. I had the same difficulty with a building whose real colour lies somewhere between white and LB Grey. I chose to build it in LBG as otherwise, like this moc, it would be too garish and offer no contrast with, eg window panes. I'd like to see this building surrounded by some gardens. Will you build a surrounding?
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    Perhaps you could use some masonry bricks in the walls or 1x2 bricks with groove. The van is top notch though, nice job.
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    Good review, thanks. One of the things I particularly liked about this little set was the chance to get hold of 2 spears and 2 shields, both nice pieces and (for me at least back then) not easy to amass a bunch. That said, looking back on it the shield design is a bit weird, would have been better to use a LEGO head.
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    Looks good to me, love the classic space look and this one fits the bill (minus the Friends figure).
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