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Does the stud not make up for the dimple?

Skyscrapers can see it Nice job, pity i already parted my town square out in other Moc's

Han's perfect retirement house Not to fond of Luke's situation though. (my name is Luke) But a great build none the less.

My only moan about the set is the lack of glass in the small arched windows. But i can fix that. Do Lego not make glass for this part? i know about the lattice piece but why no glass?

I've worked a lot around rigging and have seen someone "De-gloved" very nasty I think I'd prefer a total sever instead of that I think this little guy is cool and i have no need to replace or fix him. The Lego god's chose to make him this way so who am I to judge them. Maybe he is the special I do have tons of "Kragle" knocking about here, but he has no need to worry, because it's really not the best stuff to use on Lego I think i shall name him Captain Jas. Kudos points to anyone who knows Captain Jas's more commonly known name Also he can be my new sigfig, Kind of wierd my current one includes a crocodile I was thinking about those machines that apply the hands and how the hook got in there. Obviously the same machines are able to attach hooks to pirates so the different shape didn't bother it, it was just the next part out off the hopper. But how did the grey hook get in the grey hands hopper? Maybe some one dropped a box of hooks and they exploded everywhere and during the cleanup no one noticed the errand hook in the hands pile, maybe there was more than one in there, maybe not, maybe we'll never know. All i know is Captain Jas has finally found his new home. He is my favorite mini fig that i own. OHH! WAIT... Captain Jazz hand... that's his new name Just realized the GF's name is Jasmin and I'd rather keep all of my body parts

Here we have many different types of roundabout. We have the normal kind then the normal kind but with traffic lights that stop you on the roundabout. The roundabouts with smaller roundabouts built into them and then the mini roundabouts we even have some that look like someone spilled a pot of paint on the road, they are called Whatthehellsthatabout-abouts But talking about these weird traffic controllers, I just watched an episode of Mythbusters where they tested traffic myths. In 15 minutes they counted 335 cars through a 4 way stop and 460 cars through a roundabout. so i guess they work better in the long run.

I loved this set, but i preferred the town house to the shop, mainly because i live on a street with similar houses. I liked it so much i bought a second set and built it handed (mirrored). I would love a whole street with just the houses on it. Quick pic to show the handed version of the house.

I recently bought a few sets from the local classified adds, one of them was the town square (great set) which was still sealed when i got it. while building the set i noticed a small mistake with the crane driver... Can you spot the mistake? Driving those cranes must be a hazardous job

Well here is the squashed down version of my ground floor. This is just the first draft to see how it looks in brick form so none of the colours are right and the front baywindows are missing, but it gives me a good idea of what parts i need to bricklink (some ordered already) And with the partly done second floor.. Another problem with the house is it is built on a hill so in reality there is no steps down from the back door but 2 steps down from the front. From this quick mock up i can see i have squashed it to far sideways and it really needs to be at least 6 studs wider. I have ordered plain trans clear 4x6 window glass from bricklink and will alter them to work as the interior doors and one for the front door. But they will be the only altered parts i'll be using in this MOC (I think)

They are some good links, cheers, but they do prove what i was thinking. Both of those MOCs are bigger than the modulars. I got almost the first floor finished in that LDD program but i gave up because it's so slow and i can't do things in it that i want to try so moved to using real bricks because it's just so much quicker. I managed to squeeze the house down to 28 studs wide and 34 deep and it wasn't to bad looking until i got to the second floor and the bedrooms are just too small so I'm thinking I'll have to widen it again. So i stopped building will i think about what to do. Also by using my real bricks i have a better idea about what i have and what i need to complete the build. I'll post pics of the first attempt later if anyones interested in seeing them.

I've been looking at it again and i think the main problem is the 4 wide doors on the interior. If i make the interior that's what makes it so big. On my street there are many houses almost identical to the house in the petshop set but if i were to try and copy one of them in mini fig scale including the interior the model would be at least 4 times the size of the pet shop house. there has to be some compression going on with the modulars. I wasn't even considering adding in the front and back yards because they would push the model to 130 studs deep. I have the same problem with large front bay windows but there is also some stained glass going on so that would have to be printed. I guess if i go ahead and build it with the detail i want it would have to be kept apart from my modulars and i will have to mod some pieces using my model making skills, things like picture and dado rails cant be done in lego, and there is a large set of sliding doors that separate the dining room from the drawing room that would need to be about a half a stud wide to slide into the walls.

Crisps (cheese and onion) nuts and some kind of alcohol or tea depending on the time of the day (or year)

EHHMMmmm... I guess i must have a duel personality. Jee... I told myself this would happen...

For a while now i've been thinking of doing my house in minifig scale but I've come across a few problems. I tried using that LDD thing but it is annoyingly slow. But in laying out the foundations it turns out the house will be 34 studs wide and and 39 studs deep by 24 rows high just to keep the proportions right. This makes it a lot bigger than the grand emporium and most of the other modulars. Now I do live in a house that is nearly 100 years old and the ground floor has high ceilings but there is no way it should be bigger than any of the modulars. My other problem is there is no matching Lego interior doors or any even close and for some of the windows i will have to use vintage parts. Because I make models for a living it is possible I can mod existing doors to match and also make some other details that can't be made in official Lego parts but i don't want to really have to do that i want to stick to pure Lego. But my OCD, bet into my brain, modelmaking ways, are fighting my new re-found Lego making ways. If you built your own house what kind of compromises did you have to make? And do you have any pictures of the real version and the Lego version?

Very cool scenes. the second one is nearly perfect, just needs newt holding a friends head instead of the teddy

Probably because of minimum wage. They don't get paid enough to notice. I worked in a big chain store for a few months, and not even the managers could care less when packages where damaged. We once opened 4 radio controlled controlled cars and raced them around the store after hours and all the manager said was "make sure they go in returns." Returns was the place out back in the store room where the damaged stuff gets returned for a refund to the company that supplied them to the shop in the first place. Edit: and also the company accepting the returned goods nearly always only required the barcode off the damaged package to pay the refund. The goods in the package where either thrown in the dumpster or the staff was allowed to take them home at at huge discount.

Cool. I really like The nazi war elephant. Interesting fact: all the people i know who own elephants are Germans I must show them these pics

WOW! now that's impressive. But shouldn't he be sitting on a cloud? All you need now is Sandy and Piggy and maybe Tribitaka to complete the set.

WOW it looks much better in the sand blue. Now i'm tempted to scrap one of my petshops.

OK i have to ask. What so special about the power pulley wheels? I haven't touched any technic stuff in 2 decades so what did i miss?

They had to damage the boxes to get the anti theft thingy off, then they walk out with the set. Later on someone buys the same set to get a receipt and takes away the new set. Then they return with the damaged set and the receipt and get a refund. So keeping the new set for free.

when i buy a set i build it straight away, sometimes i even build it in the stores parking lot. I drive a camper van so i have a table in the back

Yes, a small wooden handled natural fiber brush is the best thing to use. The syringe may be made from a similar plastic so will be ruined in one use. Also don't breath in the fumes MEK is also known as chloroform, we go through 2 liters of the stuff a week in work

They should be donated to some childrens charity as gifts for xmas or something.