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  1. alois
    Try to start small all over again... I would really like to see a flower shop made by you!
  2. alois
    I suggest you buy a 10214 Tower Bridge. It gives you insane amounts of tan bricks and windows for a reasonal price. I bought one myself two years ago and never built the set itself, but just used it for moccing modular houses.
  3. alois
    I like how the shop managed to ruin the classic facade of this building: very realistic, like you can see in many contemporary shopping streets! Nice colour for the roof, by the way.
  4. alois
    You are pretty sure but likely wrong?
  5. alois
    Don't forget to put it on Marktplaats.nl, there are a lot of Dutch people wanting to buy Lego.
  6. alois
    Why did I miss this? It is a very nice and very Dutch building, and I'm a huge fan of the colour medium dark flesh, since it comes very near the colour of real bricks. I also like the interior with its balanced, not too bright colours. Nice work!
  7. alois
    I didn't buy anything from bricklink for this MOC. The more exotic pieces are from sets or from a second hands tan parts pack I bought at a Lego convention in Hardenberg.
  8. alois
    I didn't realise they were droid bodies until later, I don't own Star Wars sets but got them from a tan bulk pack.
  9. alois
    Why didn't you tell the builder that it would be a Lego room? Was he a Lego hater?
  10. alois
    Built for the Lowlug contest 'Modular MOC Madness', this Lego modular building combines the theme of the Parisian restaurant set with my own take on a Parisian building. Walking in Paris a week ago, I noticed that almost all buildings were made of sandstone, and thus tan in colour, and none of them in the colours olive and white. So I made my own Parisian restaurant. The layout is reminiscent of the Green Grocer, the business being reached from the street and the apartments from a separate larger entrance. The lower floor has the restaurant, with kitchen and restroom; the second floor has an apartment with bedroom and bathroom; the third floor is not furnished but could also be used as an apartment. The exterior: Some details: The different floors: Interior: Apartment: Backside: More on Flickr.
  11. alois
    The 1:4 ratio of the bricks points to Modulex rather than to Lego.
  12. alois
    No. A 2x4 modulex brick would be half as large as a minifig, way to large to be playing with.
  13. alois
    Or you could try and find some old boxes of Modulex bricks, which also have a 1x1x1 ratio.
  14. alois
    The half arches are exactly right for a gothic cathedral. Flying butresses never had the form of pointed arches. Also, there is a lot of variation in gothic cathedrals (remember, they were built from 1130 till the end of the 16th century). I think the structure is quite right. I would stay with three aisles, not five, since you are already building it in microscale.
  15. alois
    I noticed a difference in the Dutch boxes: some say 'systeem in het spel' while others say 'systeem bij het spel'. Can you explain the difference? I don't mean the difference in meaning, which is not much, but why they used different slogans.
  16. alois

    Slotcar System

    alois replied to ER0L's topic in LEGO Town

    This is a very cool idea! It reminds me of the old Schuco cars. The speeds are still a little bit low, but it would be great if a larger town layout could be filled with moving cars. Now only trams can move...
  17. alois
    Consider it a farewell gift?
  18. alois
    This is not true. If you read the aforementioned PDF, you'll see that Lego also uses the word illegal for those connections which put parts under stress, and uses the words 'out of system' for those connections which result in a position outside of the normal grid of bricks. Jamie calls this 'possibly legal... but not recommended'.
  19. alois
    This building in my home town Arnhem doesn't seem to be that much larger. It's not an emporium, but the style and proportion are alike. So give your building another name and it will fit.
  20. alois
    I understand you want to differentiate between the two countries, but the language is the same. I cannot tell the difference between the two versions, and I'm a native speaker. Both versions are in the Dutch language, neither is in a dialect form, be it Hollandic or Flemish. The proper way to distinguish is to say "Belgian Dutch language version" and "Dutch version" . Calling these texts 'Flemish' is like calling texts written by an American 'Califonian' (even if the writer isn't from California at all).
  21. alois
    The text is in Dutch, not in Flemish. Dutch is one of the official languages of Belgium. Flemish is a dialect of Dutch, just like Hollandic or Brabantian.
  22. alois
    I think there are by now thousands of people (including me) having one or more MISB FB's lying on a shelf, waiting for it to be retired. After a couple of years, we'll discover that we better use the bricks than let them stay in the box.
  23. alois
    Do you feel wronged by this? Let's look at the facts: 1. Jamie Berard is an Eurobricks member, your buildings got quite a lot of attention on Eurobricks, so chances are that he's seen them (and admired them) 2. Lego has a finite number of pieces, so people are bound to come up with the same solutions again and again (see the controversy surroundig the haunted house and an earlier MOC) 3. Even if Jamie was inspired by earlier MOCs regarding some details on this building, it's still completely his creation (and yes, I know, a lot more people are involved with creating a set like this in Billund). All artist get their inspiration from other artworks. And isn't that one of the reasons we post MOCs on Eurobricks? 4. Lego will never aknowledge aftewards that they've used a certain MOC as inspiration (unless it's cusoo, of course) So you'll never know, but needn't feel bad about it, I think.
  24. alois
    Isn't that what most cinemas are supposed to do? Most real cinemas I know don't fit in as well.
  25. alois
    It looks way better than the preceding two modulars. Could this be because it's Jamie Berard again who designed this set?
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