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Hi everyone, my latest building is a 16-wide Lego store, featuring the store from 60097 City Square and the VIP Store and Minifigure Factory GWPs plus a facade based on the Zehender house in Heilbronn (and a roof cornice of my own): The "Z" on top is a reference to the Zehender house. Simpler back side: Inside we start with many sets on the walls and a vintage poster (luckily I kept the STAMPs from set 1592 all these years): Pick-a-Brick wall upstairs... ...plus Build-a-Minifigure and bigger sets. Feel free to imagine what the huge Friends-colored set could be. :) Next floor: The Minifigure Factory didn't really fit as a factory into this small building, so it's a manufacture for special hand-painted figures: VIP cards are checked before you get access to the upper floors... And there's the VIP lounge - free drinks, chatting with employees and other fans, and exclusive previews of new sets such as the UCS Kessel Run MF... ...and if you got the money, you can buy a rare discontinued set from the display case or a vintage decorative brick from the top shelf: Want to take a selfie with Brick Girl? Go to the rooftop! » Flickr album Hope you like it...

Great buildings with nice architecture and nice details indeed!

Thanks, everyone! Indeed! There are some used in Legoland models, so they have been/are being produced anyway, just not available to anyone but the Legoland builders... Well, I think I won't add another one next to these three, but of course I will build more houses. Later. I've postponed cleaning up and sorting for way too long already...

Thanks! That silver piece is the little spider from this year's Nexo Knights.

Hi everyone, another 16-wide modular building of mine, featuring Spring Yellowish Green as its main color, a shop being renovated (which might open in spring) and an apartment: Well, the color is still a bit too strong for my taste, but it still looks good in this building, I think, and together with the others: Let's look inside - here's the renovation: Similar layout to the Ice Cream Parlor with a child's room and the bathroom of an apartment on the second floor, though this time it's a younger boy's room: Living room with kitchen area upstairs: That goblin statue must be a present from a mother-in-law, or why would they have it in their living room? (Anyway, it's from the Elves set that most of the Spring Yellowish Green parts are from.) And the bedroom in the attic, admittedly with a less than optimal space between roof plates and interior (like what's supposed to be a closet on the left), but, well... » Flickr album Hope you like it...

That should be part 4081 with its round sides in the wheels' holes.

Great interior and great exterior indeed!

Correctly assumed, yes. The track needs to be aligned to studs anyway when it's horizontal again (on the higher level), makes a 90° turn and has to fit in with more scenery and houses...

I have the immediate ballast attached to the track pieces, one stud wide beyond the sleepers (so 10 studs wide for a single track), simply placed between the table-parallel scenery which starts with more ballast (1 or 2 studs) - with such a minimal incline, it's hard to notice the difference, and where necessary to avoid gaps, placed another plate under the track ballast. Granted, the track is "stretched" - slight gaps between track pieces so they align with the scenery every 16 studs -, but these are also hard to notice at only 0.04 mm per track piece.with a 1-plate incline (or 0.16 with 2-plate incline). That doesn't add that much to the usual Lego gap of 2*0.1 mm.

Yes, well, I got to do something with the door height and/or the gable height anyway since, as has been pointed on 1000steine.de, there's not enough space for a roof between door and gable cutouts... I agree. The only LBG will be the thin line between the white parts - consisting of tiles, and the quarter circle tile isn’t available in many colors yet.

What do you think about this facade? The spring yellowish green could indeed be a bit softer for my taste, but I think it still works here... (Ground floor not done yet, I’m considering sand green matching these horizontal lines. And a row or two lower than these makeshift stands.)

I got some Cool Yellow bricks left from my Chima Trikes store, and got a few Spring Yellowish Green bricks from cheap Elves sets, should be enough at least for another facade each... Though I'm not sure if that Spring Yellowish Green isn't a bit too strong after all. Well, we'll see...

Yes, German "verraten" can mean "reveal, tell" as well as "betray". Let's hope they indeed release simple adapter cables (and plugs that allow chaining other plugs to make it possible to connect more than 2 things to the controller), and not just offer a set of new motor and new controller/battery box to swap out the old parts from the old trains...

Well, yes, I did get substantial inspiration from photos of Amsterdam, but we got fancy gables in Germany too. :) Rounded gables (often higher and on somewhat wider houses) were quite popular right here in Bavaria some time ago, for instance, and the blue house also gets some inspiration from a house in Stralsund (though more pronounced at an earlier stage which I didn't document)...

Hi everyone, my latest house: a 16-wide ice cream parlor + apartment in light aqua, not too fancy ;) and using elements from the TLM ice cream machine 70804: The ice cream parlor itself: Batman likes ice, too... Upstairs we have the bathroom and the room of the Ninjago Movie N-Pop girl (who's currently walking in front of the building), using some Friends stickers: Next floor: living room and kitchen: And finally the attic with the parents' bedroom: This is where I originally planned to place it, as a transition in fanciness from left to right: But I think it looks a bit better this way around: Or maybe I'll add another narrow building in between, instead of something bigger to the right... Anyway, » here's the Flickr album. Hope you like it...

Everyone else, please note that this is several years old. :) Sorry, I don't have instructions nor parts lists. Making them would be way too much work - especially with sorting taking away too much time from my spare time I have for Lego anyway...

Amazing architectural details with a nice color scheme! Well done!

Well, my inspirations usually come from real buildings, sometimes directly from one, sometimes a combination of several, sometimes just the general style. Then I'm usually brainstorming around, sometimes drawing pencil sketches, especially to get the proportions right. I use LDD only rarely, e.g. for my Grand Hotel's main entrance and ground floor design, trying different variations. But mostly I'm rather trying things out in real bricks - my brainstorming is often detailed enough that this doen't take endless iterations. :) And I also often start with the second floor, building facades first. Taking into consideration constraints like where it will be placed, or wanting to use the 50 sand red bricks I had, or 200 light aqua 1x2s. Did that also with the smaller house (16-wide) I'm currently working on - only after the facade was done, I decided to put an ice cream parlor in the ground floor and a strangely colored room in the apartment above. (Strangely colored for my taste - it's for the J-, erm, N-pop girl from the Ninjago Movie minifigures.^^) Inspiration for how to build details sometimes come from seeing new interesting parts, by the way. Be it a Ninjago weapons holder, a mudguard, maybe a tutu or a small Technic turntable in the future. Or, of course, the other way around: which parts look most like a real decoration...?

Looks like regular yellow to me (the photo is quite dark). I copied the minifig head over, looks like just the same color.

I don't mind at all, and you're right, it does look good in this configuration. Since I'll keep the building in my city in the 4-story version, I won't change it, though, since the extra floor has enough white in my opinion.

Thanks, everyone! Regarding additional color: Well, I thought about it, but I think that might stand out a bit too much...

If 10269 is indeed something to be released in 2018, the gap between 10263 (the already known (or "known") last number for 2018) and this is strange. It would hint at a release that's been decided rather late and doesn't need as much time to design and produce as normal Creator Expert sets, wouldn't it? Well, we'll see...

Indeed it looks good. I might try that on my mod, too - should have bricklinked more than the 4 teal parts I needed for my extra floor...

I don't think there's a way to do that in a symmetric and continuously rounded style, and since the structure sticks out from the wall by more than 1 brick, the window panel would probably cause problems on the sides,. too.

Thanks! Well, since I kept the original walls for another building and built all tan walls with my own parts, I can't really tell how many extra bricks that would be, sorry. You'll certainly need some plates, several tiles and the arch bricks for the corner...