alois
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The exterior is fantastic... but the interior makes it a true masterpiece. I especially like the ceiling. How did you keep track of all the pieces by the way? Did you plan it digitally?
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It is always a challenge to capture the shape of a streamlined train in Lego; you did it quite well. Would these parts have been an option to create the upper front part?
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Is this a pre-Vaticanum II mass? Nowadays in almost all churches the priest faces the people.
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Even if I used a brick a separator, the power would still come from my fingers. Or do you use your teeth? (or toes?)
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Could it be that the strength in your fingers has grown since you were ten years old? I'm in the same situation as you, a 70's/80's Lego veteran who rediscovered Lego in 2010, and I never had any problem with the clutch power of modern bricks. Still the same feeling to my hands as I remember from the eighties.
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How could I not like this? Especially the baker of course . But also the cleanliness of the design (which doesn't need dormer windows) and the overall use of tiles.
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For the Legoworld Utrecht 2015 layout I made I wanted to build another modular house. This was to be my first building built after a real life house. I wanted to make a house in Dutch 17th century classical style, so I searched Google Streetview and came up with this house from Dordrecht, called 'De Onbeschaamde' (the shameless), because the facade depicts a little boy in the nude. Because I spent quite a few euro's on a couple of Bricklink orders before, I wanted to make this out of my own bricks. This is the reason the windows are gret, not white as they should be. I have very few pictures of the result in Lego, an none of the backside, which isn't very interesting. These are from my Legoworld Utrecht 2015 layout: And still in the last phase of WIP on my desk:
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I too remember extensively studying the catalogues, even the catalogue from 1988 when I was fourteen years old and didn't buy Lego any more nor play with it. It kind of was the last thing that tied me to Lego before entering my dark ages completely.
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Don't forget that for a lot of fans their dark ages began at a time when there wasn't such a thing as the world wide web. I don' t know your age, but when I was 13 in 1988 I just got frustrated about the limitied possibilities of building with Lego. To give you an example: I wanted to build a romanesque church with a half-round apse. It frustrated me that the only solution I could think of was very blocky. Nowadays, I would have searched the internet and found a solution involving 1x3's and round bricks, but this searching just wasn't possible in 1988. So I couldn't make the transition to building with more advanced techniques and therefore lost my interest in building with Lego. Secondly, not knowing that there were a lot of other teenagers in the world sharing the same love for Lego didn't help either.
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This light blue works quite well here. I normally don't like buildings in unusual colours, but this is great. (After I posted this I was reminded of there being a light blue building in my signature too. Well, that was a one time thing.)
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Modular Building Sets - Rumours and Discussion
alois replied to The Jersey Brick Guy's topic in LEGO Town
The same could be said about a cinema, and we all know how that ended up. -
That's a great idea! And I recommend everyone to visit Legoworld Utrecht.
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I like the tower and your solution for the dome. I'm not yet convinced by the ground floor.
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You are going to Billund then? Or to one of the newer parks?
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I'm a teacher of Latin at a school that already existed in the fourteenth century, so there is no reason I would have a different job in the middle ages than I have now. Same job, same institution, same town.
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I like this way more than your crooked houses - which are beautiful, of course, but this combination of the straight lines of the house surrounded by the random lines of rocks and trees is brilliant.
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[MOC - WIP] Birmingham Catherdral (Architecture)
alois replied to Covenant84's topic in Special LEGO Themes
Make the glass of a pile of trans clear 1x2 bricks. Place them on jumper plates 1/2 stud back with respect to the arch. The upper brick should be a 1x2x1 trans clear panel. -
Pillow case + washing machine + powder detergent = less work and same or better results.
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A lot of people in this thread mention brushes. I used to use brushes too. But be careful, they make scratches on your Legos. Nowadays, I wash everything in a pillowcase, and only the dirt that won't go away otherwise gets brushed off.
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One day I'm gonna steal your floor designs. They look really great.
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Here, in the real Yurp, 12.34 PM has passed a couple of hours ago I'm afraid. And now back on topic...
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I sometimes don't even build the sets, but store them immediately by brick type. But if you don't build MOCs, your perspective will be different.
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Maybe better merge this topic with the ongoing discussion?
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Very nice locomotive. You have captured the shape very wel. Maybe you should read the opening post.