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Sorry to reply to this a bit late, but I guess that's because it looks...well...rather dumb (imho!). Not anything that can be done and is unusual is automatically good. Not a fan of the disembodied legs used as awnings over the windows as well. Anyway, thanks @LegoModularFan for keeping this up. I already thought a few times that you were dredging the bottom of the infinite pool of modular MOCs, but there always were some real beauties again soon after, so I guess we're not done by a long shot .

This is great - seeing somethinmg in real bricks is so much better than just renderings or LDD screenshots. Still love all the detailing on the facade of the azure building! But is it just me (or the pictures, or my monitor ), or does the azure clash slightly with the light blueish grey? It has that greenish tint in it that doesn't mix with the blue in the grey. And is that medium or dark azure? I'm not too familiar with those colors in general... Btw, just went to your flickr feed and saw your train station - what an impressive build! Did you present this on here, too? Must've missed it :(

Nicely done! Love the general shaping and level of detail throughout the build. Any plans to build it in bricks?

That's some nice insight, thanks, @peedeejay Interesting to see that you start with the first floor. I did that on my Sideways Building, because I had prototyped that whole sideways building technique with real bricks. Creating the ground floor afterwards proved harder than I'd thought.

Great work! Already saw it on flickr, immediate like! Loved the technique on the storefront back when you first posted it some months back, and the finished building totally lives up to that. The technique used for the 'rounded book ends' also is simple yet brilliant - took me a few moments to figure out what part you're using...never would've thought of that. Goes to prove that even very old moulds are still viable to provide new uses even today.

1 x X plates, jumpers and brackets/bricks with studs on the side/headlight bricks in neutral colors (white, light/dark grey, tan/dark tan etc.). You'll find you always need those for striping, structural support of the floor, detailing etc. As for bricks themselves, I honestly don't see much use in keeping a whole arsenal of bricks in many colors at hand. When free-building, I'd go ahead and order bricks in the color(s) I want to build in next. Depending on your financial resources and space, keeping basic bricks in the aforementioned neutral colors might be a good idea, though.

I'm not in favor of introducing a poll for the MOCs. German forum 1000steine.de does that, and imo there's just too many factors that prevent it from being fair. If you're a popular member, you have a higher chance of winning, if your MOC is enormous, you have a higher chance of winning, and the position of your MOC on the voting page may factor in aswell (further up -> more likely to receive votes). An index sounds like a great idea, but needs administration - we already have many outdated indices, no need for more. I actually thought about doing what paupadros did, and create an index tropic for my own MOCs, but if everyone did that, it'd just clutter the place up even more... I think the best way to satisfy both the needs and wants of MOCers and collectors/set builders would be to create separate boards for MOCs and official stuff. The MOC forum automatically would be some kind of index, while the official forum would have all the discussions/rumors/wishlists etc. about official sets / themes in general. MOCers would not be annoyed by their thread being pushed down by umpteen 'useless' discussion topics about official sets, and collectors/set builders would not have to sift through all those pesky MOCs to find the topics they're interested in. And those that fall in both categories can just check both.

Thanks. Frankly, I don't care for the other building, so I just added those parts to my collection Thanks, glad you lke it!

Hello everyone, I recently bought a copy of set 76108 - Sanctum Sanctorum Showdown, with the only intent to turn the Sanctum Sanctorum part into a modular building. I had liked it from the moment I saw it, and liked it even more when I saw the first mods that added another floor. So that's what I did. I bought the set without the figures, so I got it pretty cheap. That also provided a nice excuse to come up with a new backstory for it . More on that with the pictures... Diverging from my usual modus operandi, I didn't plan anything ahead this time. Since I had bought a couple of sets for parts over the last year, and also have a lot of pieces left over from all the modulars, creator houses I slaughtered to get parts for my previous MOCs, I just sat down with my parts collection and the set and started building. I finished the entire thing in less than a week, and had lots of fun doing it. While it can be maddening when you miss one part, building with bricks and sifting through your parts get's the creative juices flowing quite differently than planning in LDD. I'd estimate that the finished model consists of maybe 1500-1750 pieces (I used lots of large panel pieces for the side walls). There's no instructions, and no LDD file. If you prefer to view the pictures directly on flickr, clikc here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/131278188@N08/albums/72157693939752522 There's also a few more than I show here. The front facade is pretty much unchanged from the set, only set on a standard baseplate according to modular specs, and extended by one additional floor. I was pretty much scraping together all medium dark flesh bricks I had for the additional floor. Still had to use three dark orange bricks to complete it, but it works out fine, I think. The back went through several iterations. It takes some cues from the front, but is plainer. Detail view of the small balcony up on the top floor. Inside, we see the self-proclaimed mage that lives here. The ground floor has a dazzingly red floor. Had these tiles on hand, didn't know what to do with them, so in they went... Otherwise, it looks normal enough...cozy armchair under the stairs in front of a large TV... ... small kitchen area and a place to eat. The second floor houses the mage's bed- and bathroom. Still, nothing too out of the ordinary to see here. Wondering what's in the chest? Me, too...unfortunately, she keeps it locked at all times. Next floor... For the first time, we meet the mage. When you ask her what she's doing, she'll go on about how she's tapping into the arcane lifeforce that surrounds us and permeates everything. She does "research" on which materials are a good source for it (or "congenial vessels of the earthmother's pulse", as she puts it), and how it can be extracted. If you ask her neighbours about her, they'll say things like "Oh, her?! She's just batshit crazy! Let's just hope that when she eventually burns down her house, the fire department gets here before the fire spreads!". We have arrived on the top most floor. Here, the self-proclaimed mage does her 'experiments', which usually involve grinding and burning stuff. As on the floor below, the shelves are packed with arcane books, some merele esoteric, and some pretty occult. They also contain precious artefacts she collected over the years - usually paying way too much for them at yard sales... Finally here's a comparison shot with the Pet Shop: Looks a bit too high, or maybe the Pet Shop is just too small... There, better So, that's it . Hope you like it, let me know what you think! As I said there's a few more pics on flickr, so check them out: https://www.flickr.com/photos/131278188@N08/albums/72157693939752522 Cheers, Tobias / Roger_Smith

Nice MOC. Love all the details on the upper floors, looks comfy! The entrance hall feels a bit too big, though. Lots of unused space that could've been used for more details in the pharmacy, for example. The exterior is well done, too. Some may not like it, but I love the additional texture the masonry bricks create.

Very interesting ideas and nicely executed. The DO lends itself nicely to modifications, mainly because the original build is full of bad design choices which makes it utterly pointless in some places . A long while back I did my own extensive mod of the set, basically separating it into two separate buildings and a third one (a MOC) to go with them. Pics are here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/131278188@N08/albums/72157655071930083 Adding a basement is a very neat idea, and one you rarely see executed. I really like the basement windows on the front of th DO, and the bar beneath. Moving the main entrance to the pool hall seems odd, though. Without more changes to the front facade, I prefer the original way, I think. On the other hand, your build makes it look as if the entrance had been moved in Lego reality, too, so if that's what you were going for, kudos! Another interesting idea is allowing the facades to open. Never seen that in combination with a classic modular approach before, usually folks go either way.

Definitely a tolerance issue. Also note that bin the forest mosaic, everythink is built sideways except for the frame, while in the castle mosaic, the upper half is built sideways, while the lower half is build right side up. My guess is that this doesn't boil down to the color of the pieces, but is just a general poblem with regular tolerances wotrkinbg against each other. Possibly five plates are closer in height to the theoretical width of two studs, but a two stud wide plate/brick is actually slightly narrower than it should be to make it easier for them to connect. So when put next to each other like this, the stacked plates are wider than the plates placed next to each other.

Nice work! Love the details on the exterior, especially the extensive use of all those newer parts. Still rare to see all of them at once. The interior is exceptional as well, great detailing throughout! Not sure about the vertical masonry bricks, though. Never seen something like that in real life. The new double jumper plate is so useful. When I read your description, I thought you'd use it to center a 2-wide window over 3 studs, but using it to attach the windows and the flower-beds in front of them is very nice aswell. Wish that piece was available in tan, really could've used it on my medieval townhouse to attach the knight...

Very well done. The colors work, the detailing is great, and the overall shape and proportions work well. Looking forward to more of your work. Is the right-hand part of the building done in bright yellow or orangish yellow?

I see where you're coming from, and since I post my (infrequent) MOCs here, I know both sides of this particular coin: As a MOCer, I appreciate anyone who takes the time to reply - even if it is just a quick "Great MOC!". As you said, MOCers want to share their MOC with you / the community, and the main reason for doing so is to get feedback. If someone posts his MOC, the thread gets 2000 views but just one or two replies, the MOCer will propably think that his MOC just isn't good enough, or that the subject matter is of no interest to the community. If this happens again and again, and he also sees it with other threads, he'll ultimately be discouraged to post his MOCs on here, thinking "no one cares anyway". And this again contributed to the slow death of the community, because more people that produce content will be replaced by newbies not reading threads and asking questions answered 3 posts above their post... As a reader/fan, I of course don't reply to every thread about a MOC I check out. No one should be or feel obligated to reply. For me personally, I more or less post a reply when 1) I'm genuinely amazed by the MOC. 2) I spot something that triggers some reaction - e.g. a suggestion for improvement, a nice/unusual part usage, a part I can't identify but would like to etc. So whenever I have something nice to offer that I think the creator of the MOC would appreciate, I post. Basically, I'm thinking "If this was my MOC, would I wnat someone with my reaction to it to communicate that to me?". Usually, I try to write a bit more than just a one-liner complimenting the MOC, pointing out things I like in particular. But sometimes (especially when I'm late to the game and others have already pointed out the things I like), I just chime in. And a quick one-liner literally only takes a few moments to write. One other thing that popped into my mind when thinking about this is the issue of digital MOCs. I'm usually disproportionally less interested in a digital MOC than a 'real' one. I'm not really sure why that's the case, but that's the way it is. Of course, presentation is a key factor here (LDD screenshots with one of their crappy backgrounds will cause me to hit the 'back' button faster than you can say 'back'), but even when the MOC is presented with high quality renders, I find myself disappointed in the fact that it's not a real one. And thus only really exceptional digital MOCs will trigger a reply from me. Does anyone else feel that way? Another (german) forum I'm one just has two categories for MOCs: digital and real. I quite like that, but it propably wouldn't work on here, since EB is still far more active, and we have all those categories for all the themes. Speaking of that, I'd be in full favor of reducing the number of sub-forums. When I'm here, I usually just check out the Town forum and the General Lego discussion, since those are the places that I find the most threads I'm interested in. Sometimes, I'll also pop into the Space forum, but not nearly as often as you'd think considering that classic Space themes like Futuron, Blacktron I, M-Tron, Space Police I and of course Classic Space are my second big Lego interest besides modulars. I also like to look at great train/train-related MOcs, but I hardly visit that forum either. On the other hand, on that german forum I mentioned above, I sometimes find myself commenting even on Castle, Pirates, Star Wars or other MOCs that I'd never see on here because I just never look at those boards.

What and where is that? That looks out of this world!

The mere thought of putting 270+ of those tiny tread-pieces together for the chain...

My first account was Roger_Smith. I had to change computers after the main HD died, had forgotten the password, and didn't have access to the email adress I used to sign up anymore... Nay on the translate option. While the idea sounds nice in theory, that technology isn't ready yet, and most posts would propably read similar to the instructions for a cheap chinese knockoff of a cheaper version of a popular consumer product...especially with all the special AFOL terms that are thrown around round here.

You mean the one that was posted literally two posts above your post...?

Comparing with when I started (early 2013 with my first account, I think it was), I too feel that people seem to post, and, more importantly, interact less with each other. There has also been a prolonged move away from some types of topics I really liked when I started here. Overall, I think the following two aspects I've noticed the most: 1) People seem to be less and less interested in actually reading posts and threads: I see this regularly, and experienced it in my own topics as well: People take time and put an effort in posting a longer, though-out post, or put a lot of effort describing their newest MOC - and get replies by people asking questions they had already answered in their original post. Following the same scheme, people seem to go into on-going discussion threads (e.g. the modular buildings one) more and more often to ask questions that have literally been answered only a few posts further up, or post some 'new' bit of info that had already been posted by someone else just before. I find this to be really annoying and off-putting, because why bother taking the time to create longer posts when no one reads them anyway. I'm aware that on-going discussion topics tend to circle back to certain discussions time and again, but similarily, I lose interest in taking part in a discussion, if every other post is just someone else posting/asking something "new" that had already posted several times. 2) There's less nostalgia: One thing that originally got me to sign up here were numerous intersting topics where someone restored some old sets (I saw this mostly in the space section, since that was my starting point here), describing their journey in great detail. Nowadays, we still sometimes get threads where someone bought/fiound an old pile of Lego, but nobody shares their journies in as much detail as they used to. The (pretty much) departure of LegoHistorian Gary Istok is another aspect here: I loved reading his detaiuled posts about some obscure old Lego stuff, but he stopped posting those some two or three years ago. 3) Less reviews: This is the one aspect that has changed I actually don't mind, but it's worth mentioning anyway: When I started here, I really enjoyed reading the detailed reviews that were posted regularly in the forums. I sometimes even read reviews on sets that held no deeper interest for me, just because they were so well written. Those, for the most part, are gone. Occasionally, one pops up, but they are often very late to the game, and sometimes tend to focus on stuff that doesnt interest me as much (e.g. the minifigures). However, I since then started following jangbricks on youtube, and he covers most sets i'm interested in - and I have to say, I vastly prefer this style (video) of review, so I don't really miss them on here. Both 2) and 3) can also be attributed to the general laziness to read and react to longer posts mentioned in 1) Having said that, there's one thing I really don't get on here, and that is how the Featured Topics for the starting page are chosen. It seems to happen rather randomly, and some MOCers apparently have some sort of subscription to it, while others never get chosen - despite creating MOCs that I'd deem on par or even better than some that are featured. I guess that the moderator for each forum can chose featured topics as they like? As for @Captain Nemo's questions: Would you like to see more contests? I don't have strong feelings here - there's rarely been a contest on here I was really interested in. Apparently, there used to be modular contests wayyy back, those I'd be interested in, but in general I don't have the time, interest and resources on hand to participiate. What is your opinion of Tags (those small images on the left <---)? Don't really have any. Do you use, if ever, Eurobricks reference materials (ie. lists of Reviews, lists of MOCS, lists of Forums)? Usually, I just use the search function. I often use the archive of lxf files, though. Have you participated in games on Eurobricks (ie. Role-Playing, Mafia, etc.)? No. Do you use/visit the Eurobricks Facebook page? Eurobricks on Flickr? etc. I'm following the flickr page. I'm not on facebook. Do you post MOCs online? What hosting platform do you prefer to use? Yes, they are on flickr and, subsequently, on here and a german forum I'm somewhat active on. Do you prefer broadly defined threads or multiple specialized threads? Depends. For example, I like the general modular building threads we have, but I'm completely lost in the "New XXX sets for 2018" discussion threads....mainly because I don't actively follow them, but want to check out pictures of new sets sometimes...but those usually are buried somewhere in a thread with several dozen pages... What is the first page you visit when opening Eurobricks on your browser? Portal, then the Town forum.

How it&#x27;s done... by Tobias T., auf Flickr A couple people asked me how the angled floor in the restaurant is done. It's actually very simple, so here's a quick montage to explain it: The floor is just two plates thick and rests on a couple of tiles, only attached via the studs of the two jumper plates you can see. It is then clamped down by the two-stud-wide exterior walls and the elevated bar area, securing it nicely in place.

Might be a possibility. The designer of the Downtown Diner (Mike someoneorother...damn I'm so bad at names...) also dropped that strong (though factually wrong) hint that maybe they "should do a Hotel sometime" in the designer video.

As @Fuppylodders already said, most of this boils down to personal taste. Red is a very common color for roller coaster track, so I don't see anything wrong with this choice. I use the classic bright red very sparsely myself because it's so intense, but in this case, it works for me. As for more decoration, here I'm on your side. Nowadays, even some fairgound coasters have attempts at theming, and some lights really would have helped, as those have been around or ages.

What kind of argument is that? Fairgound rides are never color coordinated amongst each other. It's their very nature that each one is designed on its own. Heck, even in amusement parks each ride usually has a unique color-scheme.

Nice work as usual!