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B-OM-23A This is my entry for the modular madness contest and my first full 32 x 32 modular moc. It is a Ferrari car dealership. I designed and Ferrari type car in the spring and saw the contest a month later and thought it would be good motivation to try and build a car dealership. I have designed some 7 wide cars in the past so a car dealership is something I have always thought about making. Thanks for looking. This is the dealership with the roof off so you can see the inside from the outside. Interior picture with the front facade removed. Picture of the back with the back doors open to allow the car to enter and leave the building. Picture with some of the other official modulars. More Photos

V-LV-31E to V-LV-32A This is my latest 7 wide car. It is a Ferrari type mid engine sports car and was the inspiration for my entry in the modular madness contest. I always wanted to make a mid engine type sports car with the engine visible behind a transparent clear panel like in a Ferrari F430 or 360 Modena and I was finally able to make it. I built the car in red, black and light gray and will proably do some other colors in the future. Thanks for looking.

Great looking new car ER0L! Really like the fenders and the wheel rims. Look forward to seeing your future versions of the car.

Great work on the mods to the new town hall. I like your wider version a lot better than the original 32 wide building. The proportions of the building look better balanced and more horizontal which is what I envision when I think of a town hall. The extra real estate on the interior is very nice and you used the space well. I think Lego did a nice job of getting all the features of a town hall in the interior but they seemed compressed. I think this will be a fun set to mod and I look forward to seeing all the different versions that people come up with. I see that you had a lot of extra parts leftover from the second set. Do you think it was worth it to buy a second one or would have it been better to get the parts off bricklink when they become more readily available?

Thanks wooootles. Yes, I would take happily take my listed gas prices as prices seem to increase every week where I live. Thanks Legocrazy81. Thanks DutchTreat. The more I think about it, I will proably stick with the studded roofs as they match the offical modulars and every building in my city has studded roofs. I have seen tiled roofed buidldings and I do like the extra detailing that can be achieved with it but it does use up a lot more parts. I am a big tile fan and prefer a lot of tiling but a little studding is good too.

Very nice parking garage! The power functions lift is very cool and I like the larger size of yours. The new official version seems small to me. I like the lights above the entrance and the use of the baseplates for the upper level floors was a good way to save a lot of plates and tiles. If the upper levels are filled with cars do the baseplates handle the weight well or do they flex some?

Great job on the new Bluesmobile ER0L! Excellent work in getting the sedan shape of the car. I like the grill in the front and the studs running down the center of the hood and back. It gives a little texture to the car. Keep up the good work.

Thank you Bricktown, brickmack, Mr. Elijah Timms, Brickenhead-town-dweller, and TheLegoDr for the kind comments! Thanks legomaniac83 for the compliments and the suggestions. Roof tiling sounds interesting, I don't know if the 8 x 16 tile would fit right but something to think about for future builds.

Great looking city layout. I wish I had all that space to fit all those modulars. I like all the modularized offical sets and the custom buildings and the overall size of it. There is a lot of Lego there. Look forward to seeing how it grows and changes.

Thanks RunnersDad. Thanks solta. Thanks zenn. Glad you like the custom stickers. Thanks Oran. Very nice tanker truck. I like the chrome with the octan logo. I have seen the chrome tanker parts in bricklinks catalog and they are pretty rare and hard to get. Too bad Lego did not keep those parts in production.

Wow! Thank you all for the kind comments and positive feedback. I am glad you all like my gas station design. Thanks. One of my local gas station has their pumps on a diaganol so thats where I got the idea from. I wanted to keep the pumps on a 32 by 32 baseplate and going diaganol was a way to maximize space for the cars to be abe to fit and drive through. Thanks. I tried to keep it from being too big so it would fit in well with the modular buildings but I'm thinking of building one on a 48x48 baseplate someday. Thanks. Yes the price is in gallons not liters but I live in California and with rising gas prices the price is already not accurate for my area.

Thank you kyzr44, Legocrazy81, and lightningtiger for the kind comments!

B-OM-17E I wanted to share my latest creation. I have been working on this for the last couple of months. This is my first attempt at a modular type building. It is a gas station with a snack shop. Lego has not released a gas station in a long time and I don't think they will ever do an exclusive high end version. So this is my version of a gas station that would fit with the modular cafe corner style buildings. The hardest part was the pumps, once I got that the way I liked it, everything else came together pretty quickly. The snack shop has a full interior and this is my first attempt at making custom stickers. I tried to make it look good with the various width of cars from the 7 wide type cars that I prefer, to the classic 4 stud wide cars and I took some pics with various cars sizes posted at the end. Thanks for looking.

Cool new rides EROL. Really like the classic Cadillac with the white wall tires and the chrome rims. Haven't commented on your corvette yet so I will say it's my favorite of all your designs. Can tell you put a lot of time into that one. Going to build any of your cars in other colors? Keep up the good work!

Wow! Great looking building. Thank you for sharing. I really like the wider width for the building as I always think of more state type buildings being wide like that and it allows for a lot more interior space. I though Lego was going to do a 48 wide for the town hall modular to give it a grander feel but they went for more height than width. The little dome on the top is my favorite exterior feature. Did the technique you use for that similiar to how the official taj mahal domes were done? How stable is the dome? The interior just adds to the set and I like how there is more space in all the rooms. At the smaller 32 by 32 it sometime seems like everything is being jammed in. Keep up the great work.

Thanks Blue Brick. Haven't made any progress on the new area. Waiting for the new town hall set to come out before I made additons. Thanks Macoco. The blue tram in not fucntional yet. I have bought some power functions stuff but haven't gotten around to making the conversion. I am thinking of placing the Town Hall where the old green town hall used to be. I would like to mod the new one to convert it into a 48 wide building so I will proably had to buy 2 so I am going to have to save up some money. I don't know what I will do with the old one, I have thought of converting it into a museum but I will have to incorporate the new building first before I decide where the old one will go and what it will be. Thanks. Sorry you missed out on the Town Plan it is a great set. Hopefully Lego will make more like that in the future. Thanks Ferdik. I agree the pet shop and cafe corner sets work will together. Thanks laka. I am glad you like the landscaping I think it makes city layouts look more realistic. Yes I will proably expand the cross street out and push the train loop out to the edges of the layout to get more space. The gas station and train station will have to be rearragned some but I have not figured that out yet.

I finally took some interior shots of the cinema and the other buildings as I was taking pictures of my latest MOC. The cinema interior could proably use some updating but I only used extra parts from the second town plan to do the interior so it was somewhat limited. The theatre area is to the left of the entrance. There is a projector room in the back center and the right part of the building there is a snack and sitting area. Here is the interior of the train station. Its just a snack shop area on one side and ticket and seating areas on the other side. Here is the interior of the city hall. One wing is a hall area for city meetings and the other wing is the mayor's office which is pretty spartan just a desk and chair. In the middle is the entrace area and where the clerk works.

Very nice job on the car dealership. I like the landscaping in the front lot and the custom made stickers especially the ford oval stickers. Have you thought about tiling the front lot where the cars are parked to make it a smooth parking lot area?

I would go with the grand emporium first especially if your planning on displaying your building in a street layout. Seeing from your post that you already have the green grocer and fire brigade, having a full sized corner building would fit in well with the 2 other modulars. I agree with everyone else that the grand emporium can be a little repetitive in the build but I think it's worth it in how it looks when finished. The pet shop is a nice set too but with two smaller building I see it ss more of a complimentary than a full sized corner building which can be more of a centerpiece set if you have a layout. The pet shop will proably be around longer as it was released just last year so you will have plenty of time to pick it up in the future.

Thanks for sharing the new pics of this years modular building, made my day. With its larger size this years building definately has the wow factor back. Even though the petshop was nice it didn't have that for me when I first saw those preview pics last June. Already thinking about mods for the buidling. A 48 wide free standing version would look great in my town. Can't wait for the set to come out.

Very nice collection of fire vehicles HIGHWAY PATROL. Really like the first two especially the snorkel truck. Keep up the good work.

I will try to get an interior picture of the cinema in the next week or two. Thanks Doink. Tram and rail are definately very european ways of transport but we do have light rail in some of the major cities in California like San Jose and Los Angeles which are similiar in looks to the Lego tram. The Getty Art Museum in Los Angeles is built on a hill and you actually take a tram from the parking lot to reach it. Trams are proably not the first thing you think of when you think of California but it's a state that loves the idea of public transport, the state is currently trying to start a high speed rail line even though it has no money and not many people will ride it. The wind turbines are pretty stable. When I run them I usually go at the lowest speed on the power functions speed regulator but if I crank it to the top speed the turbines will cause the tower to shake some but they have never fallen over or collapsed from that. Thanks Brickmamba. Its been almost 5 years since I started with the first modular building. I got the cafe corner the week that it came out in the spring of 2007. From there its expanded from just a street scene with one building on my shelf to what you see today.

Thanks LEGO City glad to be able to provide some inspiration. Thanks Dakar. The tables I use are from Ikea they are the melltorp series which are basic white kitchen tables. I have two that measure 29.5 inches by 59.5 inches and one that is 29.5 inches by 29.5 inches . I overlay a piece of 4 x 8 maple plywood on the tables to create a smooth stable area for the city to sit on. From another piece of plywood I cut pieces to create a little more length and width. The layout currently measures 95 inches long by 54 inches wide. Tables and plywood are pretty stable and the combination gives a good base for the modulars to rest on and minimizes seams you would get with just putting tables together. I've accidently bumped the tables a few times and knocked over a few minifigs and a couple of trees but no major damage. My 2 year old nephew has tried to shake the tables a few times and only major damage is the minifigs that are on tiled areas fall over. Hope this helps with your town setup. Thanks clcwong. Glad you like town hall, it's one of my favorite buildings. Of course with the rumored new modular town hall I might be converting it into something else in the near future. Tram is not powered yet but its something I've been planning on doing. I bought some power function parts to do a conversion but I just haven't got around to it. Proably won't be adding any interior MOCs in the buildings in the near future. Some of the buildings I put some interiors in like the town hall and the movie theatre but proably will be focusing more on expansion.

Very unique concept car ER0L. With the multi colored body scheme and sleek profile, this would be right at home at the auto shows. Anytime you can get 4 minifigs to fit in a car type body and have the car look good it is quite an accomplishment in my opinion. Do you have plans to make the car in some other color combinations? I look forward to seeing your future seven wide car designs. Keep up the good work!

Very nice new collection of cars L@go. Super car is definately my favorite. Second favorite is the remake of the delivery van. Really like how you built some of the other cars in more rare colors. Keep up the great work!