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VEry nice modular building! I like the simple lines of the corner building. Maybe the beginning of a little street?

I wanted to have another building in my town, to form the counterpart of my café 'the corner'. So it had to be a corner building, and I wanted it to be in Dutch neo-renaissance style. To achieve the corner look, I did something of which Pythagoras wouldn't approve, but Lego is tolerating enough for it. Now I had to find an occupation for the building, and since it will be located in front of the station it became a barbershop, with interior (a little bit outdated, but I haven't been to a barbershop since 1997 myself . Our friend Hendrik-Jan is finally forced by his wife to get his long hair cut. Inside the old barber puts him on a chair and in no time he's presentable again. Actually, he's glad his wife made him go... More can be found here.

One thing I don 't is the strict separation between town and trains - after all, trains are an integral part of the world we live in. I have a town layout for which I recently built a train station, and this is the only part of my layout that I had to show in another forum, which is strange. What would a town be without a station?

How many pieces do you own?

Is this the first time you're building a MOC that is not modelled after something real? I'd like that.

The classic one has definitely more charm. Keep the first.

No, I had the same thing about a year ago with a large technic box. Amazon.de.

Do you have a lot of LEGO sets, which occupy a lot of living space? Not a lot, just about ten Did you buy many LEGO sets, but never open. and keep it unopened for years? (thinking about resale, regift, part-out LATER, but never happened?) No, I always open them and use the bricks Did you buy many LEGO used pieces but still sitting in the bins and never have time to sort them out? No, I always sort them out and use the bricks Do you have have many unfinished MOCs from..like years? No, they're all finished, except the one I'm currently working on Do you keep all the instruct books, all the boxes..even the LEGO club magazines. the sticker sheets and LEGO catalogs? even the plastic number bags?? Books I keep, exclusive set boxes I keep, the rest goes out. Do you think "I have too many LEGO pieces" but still buy some more when you think it is cheap enough? I don't think the first, I do do the second Do you not only buy some LEGO sets. but also some watches, key chain, playing cards, magnet or even eraser/notebook? I do have a Lego lunch box, which I use for lunch Not all too bad, I think. I'm not ready yet for the psychiatrist.

This part from the fifties is also very specialised. It even doesn't have an attachment part.

I would recommend getting more than one Tower Bridge, it has an incredible parts-to-price ratio, even when you discount all the tan cheese slopes. But you'll have to bricklink some extra doors. I'm anxious to see your complete loot, and after that all the beautiful MOCs you're going to build

When looking at this picture of a renaissance palazzo, you'll notice that the edges of these rustica blocks don't overlap either. So I meant it to be like this in my MOC, and I see no problem with it. And even when I did, the solution needs too many workarounds.

I saw pictures on flickr of the complete layout and your MOC really stood out! Now for a proper model railway you stood start and build huge mountains in the background

In my layout the station, like all my other modular buildings, is put on 1 high bricks, to allow for a street with embedded tram tracks.

How does one do that?

I never use real buildings as a direct example. But it draws inspiration from a lot of small stations in the Netherlands, like the former Pijnacker station. I studied the stationsweb website for some time, before starting the build.

Whoa, this is one big MOC you've made! I like the scale of it, but I also like all the details you build into it. I can see two trams in the display (which I both like very much, every town display should have a tram ); which one is yours?

The roof consists of lots of 1x2 plates in dark red, mounted on 2-wide plates. The substructure is supported bij technic beams. Why not 1x1 plates? Because I happened to have a lot of 1x2 plates in dark red. The reddish brown plates are in fact 1x1.

Since my street was lacking a proper station, I decided to build one (don't know if this is the right forum, both in train and in town station MOCs can be found): Everybody is waiting for the train to come: The front side: An intercity train stops: Interior: More Photographs are to be found here.

It says 'Buffet de la gare Montparnasse' on the facade, so why shouldn't this be the Gare Montparnasse? By the way, Montparnasse station was demolished long ago and replaceby a modern building. Maybe that's what's confusing you.

Drudoo states clearly in his first sentence that it is a WIP review. So if you don't like this, just stop reading there and have patience. But some other readers like to read even only the beginning of this review, and to me it's no problem that is was posted already.

Runway of an international airport = 4000 m. Minifig scale = 1:40 Runway in minifig scale = 4000/40 = 100 m = 400 32x32 baseplates in length. I don't own a hangar.

Not within the restriction of 32x32 studs. The examples you give would require 100+ studs.

Almost every element of this layout is fantastic. I like the station most. Are you going to make the layout more permanent? In this setting, the buildings stand somewhat on their own, and need some connecting elements. I would say, get rid of the road plates and build your own streets, otherways your tram will never be able to ride the streets!

This a very clean and refined build.SImple but with many realistic details.Ilike it very much.

In many European cities, Paris included, sidewalks in the historic centre can be very small and completely occupied by restaurant tables. You'll have to walk a few meters on the street in that case. But many city centres are car free, so that is not always a problem. A large Parisian boulevard is another story. It will tend to have a broad sidealk.