alois

The method you are using, first designing and then ordering all the bricks, is completely dfferent form what I'm used to, but the result is great. I always try to build with what I've got in my hands, although I buy certain sets and parts with a builiding-to-be in mind. But this method works great, and the real-life version is even better than the design.

After buying and building set 10185 'green grocer' I wanted a shop that could go with it, in scale, details and function. So I decided to build a bakery. It is a building originating from the beginning of the 20th century, built in the style of the dutch architect Berlage. I wanted it to be more asymmetrical than my previous MOCs, so I added a loggia with a tower ont he left side, which is in itself also asymmetrical. Many design decisions were guided by the presence or absence of certain parts. The keen observer will certainly recognise set 6754 'Family House'. I fitted the first two floors with an interior. The baker's shop is provided with a counter, shelves with bread and shelves with pastries. There is also the possibility to enjoy your pastry inside the shop at a small table. Upstairs you will find a living room with open kitchen, fireplace, a cupboard, a sofa and dinner table. Going further you will find a sleeping room (opening to the loggia) with adjacent bathroom. The third floor is not fitted, and cannot be opened. My Lego street has four houses now: the mayor's mansion, a döner kebab snackbar, a bakery (all my own creation) and finally the green grocer. More pictures are to be found here.

I like what you are building, am a great fan of tan myself. Do i recognise the family house 6794 (little lamps)? A suggestion: maybe you could make the slopes of the tympanum less steep, it would make the building more realistic and more like a neo-classicistic building. I would also put al little more height (architrave) between the capitals and the tympanum to give it a more balanced look. But again, it is already an amazing building.

Look better under the cupboards.... I really like tan - it was a nice surprise after not building with lego since the eighties to find this colour. But the other reason for this colour are the sets 4954 and 6754 (which are nice buildings in itself, but now reduced to pieces).

For my second MOC, I liked to build a smaller modular building (16 studs wide) next to the mayor's residence (32 studs wide). I also wanted to contrast the two buildings, so I decided to build a snackbar. The words Döner kebap neatly fitting on 10 studs, I decided it to be a döner kebap snackbar of the kind you find everywhere in the Netherlands. I decided to give facade also a marked contrast between the first floor, with its large windows and rather ugly sign, all not original 19-century, and the rest of the facade, which shows the original 19-century Dutch neo-renaissance design. I tried to give the first floor an interior. More images can be found here. Ultimate goal is to complete a Dutch street with multiple houses. Recently I bought set 10185, which may find ist place next to the snackbar.

This week I bought a MISB 10185 Green Grocer from a Dutch auction website (Marktplaats) for EU 141,-. It is my first modular set. Now I am hesitating to open it.

It was a rhetorical question

What is a clone anyway? Aren't Lego bricks itself a clone of Kiddicraft bricks? With many enhancements afterwards, granted, but still originally a clone.

The problem is not the supply of bricks (and yes, I've already discovered Bricklink, first buy was the classic firestation from the beginning of the eighties, lots of nostalgic memories) but the amount of money I will be willing to spend.

Hi, I'm a 36 year old dutch Lego fan who is just starting to build again after 20 years. I played a lot with Lego in the eighties (mainly trains and technic) but I got other interests. When I started to get some Duplo for our oldest daughter, I fell in love with Lego again. I bought some sets over the internet, mainly technic and loose parts, and Iḿ now starting to build my first own creations. I like technic a lot, but in a non-creative way; I just like to build the sets. What I do like to create are buildings, and I hope to make a couple of them, if I can collect enough bricks. Greetings from the Netherlands

I ran out of tiles....

Hello, I'm new to this forum, and getting into Lego again after 20 years. I'd like to show my first attempt at building a modular house: I built it to resemble the house of the mayor of an old Dutch or Belgian Town, built around 1800. Roof and second floor can be lifted, but there's no interior as for yet, nor surroundings. Details of the neoclassical facade: . The backside is a bit plainer than the face, for obvious reasons: . To built it, I mainly used parts from set 4954 (easily recognisable, see the little burgundy bricks under the windows) and a lot of other loose parts. More images here.