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  1. paupadros
    You've achieved a very cohesive layout, which is very American (something I would never build !), but that feels fresh, homely and that just works brilliantly. It kind of reminds me of Hill Valley from Back to the Future, which is always cool. Nice job
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    A farily interesting piece of news I found: https://kockashop.hu/lego/confidential-expert-3-2018-10262 I Google Translated the description: LEGO® 10262 - Creator Confidential - Expert 3 2018 price / review LEGO® 10262 price: 51,740Ft. Confidential - Expert 3 2018! To build love rather than playing and making the elements of a given set more creative, this is your world! From a set you can build up more completely different vehicles or houses, only your imagination is what can limit you. The second part to me just sounds like the regular description for the Creator Expert theme. At the beginning, it says 51.740ft. That's 156€/181$/138£. That's very steep. And the webpage doesn't seem to have too crazy prices for other vehicles. On par with the London Bus, Mini and Camper Van; cheaper for the Beetle and more expensive for the F40 London Bus: 37.990ft/115€/133$/101£ 7.1c/piece Beetle: 24.170ft/73€/85$/64£ 7.7c/piece F40: 35.190ft/106€/123$/93£ 7.8c/piece Mini: 26.990ft/91€/106$/80£ 8.4c/piece Camper Van: 31.990ft/97€/112$/85£ 7.5c/piece Using a fair 7cents/piece price for larger Creator Expert sets, the DB5 could potentially have 2228 pieces, just like a modular. Again, this is based on a Hungarian webstie's prices, but seeing how true to the standarised price it has been, I believe a part-heavy DB5 is very plausible.
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    If so, it is a true shame. Staff Picks worked brilliantly for older projects to jump back at the popular list. I'm really curious how they're going to help older projects get to 10K. It'll be interesting to see in how much time a new project reaches 10K without popular there and the Top rank being based on newer projects. Before, when a project neared 10K, as everyone started voting it massively, it got to Popular and there it reached the goal farily easily. Now, even a project with 9990 supporters has zero visibility. I would change it back if I were them. They could have Staff Picks on top, the 12 Popular projects on a list how it used to be and the new Top rank below it in the same fashion.
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    The "Top" ranking is very bizarrely put together. In the past, a project with 50 supporters after 5 days would get nothing, but now, it seems like they're really pushing projects like these forwards. The trending list used to be the one right below the Staff Picks (which I beleive are gone). That list is figured out by accumulating the amount of votes in the past week. That was a good way of having projects very visible for about a week before disappering. On day 1 of a project, you tend to get more votes, so when seven days later at the exact time you'd had your projec posted, all those votes that were older (exact to the minute) than a week, weren't accumulable for the Trending ranking. Imagine: You got 10 votes/hour on day one, unless you kept that same vote flow a week later, the little tag on top saying "x new supporters" would decrease and decrease. That's why it was a smart idea to promote your project very heavily entering the second week. Now with that very confusing welcome page and "Top" ranking... No clue how that's figured out.
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    @Bricked1980, definitely post it on the Lego subreddit. Farly easily it can get 1000 views. There, the posts are tagged as "MOC", "SEC", "Lego Ideas"... I wouldn't tag it Lego Ideas. I would tag it MOC, they have more visibility. It's a bit weird, you can't tag it when posting. First off you need to be on Old Reddit, then select only MOCs, then over to the right post a new link. It's a bit complicated but easy enough. Plus, with the new Ideas frontpage, which I don't quite understand how it works, TBH, your awesome project is the third thing you see; in the past there was the "Trending this Week" tab which was very difficult to get into
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    Welcome! I'm a big fan of Art Nouveau, but Brutalism is a style I'm digging more and more recently. People are very firendly here, have fun!
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    Very interesting comment, @Redhead1982! Certainly not everything can be of everyone's taste, which is a good thing! I love opinion and discussion. I completely understand your point. I'm always trying to conceive bigger, grander concepts: curved façades, tilting roofs, plus my (more than probable) overuse of colour and the fact I used the back of the headlight bricks for extra texturing may be a little too much. I would agree that smaller details get diluted in the general picture with so much else going on, but I prefer a big bold impactful image over a very lovingly crafted model but that doesn't have that "WOW!" or that "UGH... What's that" factor. I've found my style can arouse a little bit of a disapproval reaction at first. A little bit of a shock if I may, but I always try to make a solid model with tons of awesome details that if you happen to enjoy, better! I also really like how the blue windows peek over to the left of the model. It gives a little bit of rest to the eye and has a newyorkish feel I really like. In fact, it's based on the old townhouses in Bilbao, Spain. There, they've put metal windowed sections where an old house was, in order not to hide it. I think it's an act of honesty in architecture which isn't that common. It's also the less overdecorated area of the model, so that's why you might be fonder of that part rather than others. You're entirly right, building digitally allows for more freedom for parts usage and more importantly for cheap experimenting. I've sometimes tried 4-5 different façades and have chosen a single one. It allows me to be more picky and in a way, forge my style. I know this model might be a little bit crowded, but it's just how it turned out to be for three reasons. 1. My style is very much that way 2. It was very inspired by Art Nouveau and Friedrich Hundertwasser's architecture. Which is inspired by Gaudí's (a clear favourite of mine) but in "Lego-friendly" colours. 3. I decided to make it a straight modular (not a corner). If it were a corner, it would've probably looked less cramped, but that's not the effect I was striving for. As you might've seen, I love pushing limits, because... if you can push them, why wouldn't you? About the curved façade, the only way I conceived possible was it not being (entirely) modular. The façade is done using flex tubes and clips around it to hold the posts. The floors follow the wall's shape, they don't poke out of it. There's a picture on page 73 of the article I wrote for HispaBrick Magazine. I think it's pretty interesting to see the progression of this MOC: http://www.hispabrickmagazine.com/sites/default/files/Descargas/HBM030_ENG.pdf Have a nice day! Pau
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    Any more doubts this is a DB5? Sam's words, teasers with quotes from scenes where the car is... I attempted building one some time ago and it easily became too bulky; like Lego's Mini. I honestly really hope they can translate nicely the slim nifty look the DB5 has. I wouldn't be surprised if this set were shorter than the others, a bit taller than the F40 and as skinny as the Beetle. I'm also curious how they'll translate the healights, the same round tray+transparent dish combo they did for the Mini and the Beetle? Seems the most likely.
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    I wrote this explanation on a picture tag, I'll just copy-paste it here: The bump here looks nice, but it was kind of an accident. In order to place the flex tube that has clips that form the headlight brick pillars, I needed to have some extra clips that would stick the flex tube itself to the base. When you have to connect two flex tubes, there's a space where the façade just goes straight for two bricks (the gap this leaves is fairly noticable in another picture of the blue stripe). Basically, I placed the clips that would hold the flex tube, then realised the flex tube itself would have a concave shape. At first I thought that wouldn't be an issue, but... No. All of the elements: the 1x1 clips that sandwich the 1x1 Technic bricks, the windows and the roof protrued from the façade, they come out of it. Where it is concave, these protruding elements collide, that's why there's no 1x1 cheese slope on the top nor 1x1 clips between windows :D. There is, though the top 1x2 cheese slope, as I placed it half a brick behind kind of tucked away somehow. Also, in ASIT or in S&C I had flower pots decorating the windows, but for this one, aside from the shaping and colouring, I felt there was not much interest, not much interest, to be found on the middle floors. That worked as such in a way It wasn't bad, but this one gives a much more charming feel to your posts It's something I thought of while travelling. Heck, if painters sign their works, wouldn't it be great if Lego sets had just a couple of pieces on the side which would indicate who designed it. Therefore we wouldn't need Designer videos to know (although I love the insights!). For each designer, a distinguishable signature. So I put it there always, a sand blue rat with its cheese next to it
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    Very nice design! The first thing that came to mind was like @Digger of Bricks has said, Emerald Night, but the fact you've added some red and gold, makes the whole creation pop a whole lot more . I love many of the details, especially the golden accents, which your new render engine really makes shine. By the way, is this Blender? I'm either utterly dumb or something as I've never made as nice renders even trying again and again.
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    Very cosy cottage! The colours are pretty and blend nicely with the grassy atmosphere it's surrounded by. I really really like the angle you've put the roof in, it gives it a modern look to an otherwise very traditional home. The dock is very nice and simple and really like the seats you've made using the car raisers (I rememember playing with those so much wiht those Racers sets back in the day. The only area I believe isn't as well solved is the lake. How the underwater changes colour is great but trans green makes it look too similar to the grass. Also, the rocks are a bit tiny. This is anyway a great MOC! PD: How come you've committed minifigcide just to use one of their poor little hands for a mailbox opener!
  12. paupadros
    Good 16x32 modular with a nice façade, good colours and a really nice window arrangement and rooftop
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    I would like to comment on the architecture alone, but I can't. When I read "cannabis dispensary", my brain just went... What? In fact, TLG received a complaint from a parent saying why were they making marijuana leaves in children sets (in the Battle on Scariff set, to be precise) . The rasta motifs are pretty great as well, but poor bakery, their bread is gonna be herb-infused (some friend I knew lived atop one of these cannabi places, the smell was really unbearable!). As for the architecture itself, I really like the roof part on top the "Budd's Bakery" signage, which is very simple, but extremely effective using just crates and pyramids! PD: Really like the hippie laughing as if mad on the street. Very cool build!
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    Nice! A good combo of older (arches and a pink façade - maybe that house got repainted some time later, who knows) and newer architecture the building over to the left. Really like the positioning of your buildings; the pink one seems to be leaning over the windowed one. This overall building drew a big smile on my face, I too am building sort of a similar layout: a corner with two buildings and multiple façades, and was enevr consdiering pink as a possible colour for the façade! My only criticism would be the windowed building's interior: it looks a bit too sparsely funished. Anyway, congrats!
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    That is the Flickr description of this model. Pretty funny. Exactly, it all comes down to personal taste. While the part usages are certainly great, like what you mentioned "¯\_(ツ)_/¯". To me, they kind of make me go crazy (where am I supposed to look!? ). Exactly, the Hat Store has a very unique building layout, but the "isle" building to say it somehow could have been another colour for the composition to pop more. I also dislike the signage. Not only I think they're a bit of an eyesore, but they detract from the building. Saying "look at me, I'm exactly this", I prefer the architecture to speak a little bit on its own. italovergant's models are a little bit like Bricky_Bricks's, but more on the monumental side rather than focusing on details. Both builders have novel ideas that I don't particularly share . I'm curious @Digger of Bricks, what do you think about these two builders? Looking forward to it! A 48x32?
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    This made me laugh I wonder what the builder considers good if that is bad! I posted my modulars on Ideas before and must say I find outstandingly fake the supportive messages some people give there. In all honesty, I dislike Bricky_Brick's models. They're unimaginative, badly managed in terms of colour (a subtle way of saying "a mess!"), too repetitive and overall uninteresting for me. Maybe you guys love his unique (certainly unique, though) style, but it just says nothing to me personally.
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    Nice! This building is a little bit of a cross between Elves and Modulars... in a very good way . The sexy curves of the roof were the first thing I noticed, but then I saw the Minecraft rail system brown tiles as framing for between the first and second floor and really liked such simple but nice touch. I do agree this building serves quite a "niche" problem, but heck, weirder buildings are my favourite . Your sea front is really taking a nice, very unique look. Congrats! Pau
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    Very sleek! Really like the use of the 2x2 triangles on the front. Kind of looks what a 50s Cadillac would look like if made today.
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    I love this one! Has a little bit of Old Fishing Store's feel but in a more city of a context. Plus, the colours are insultingly simple but fitting. Pretty funny Draco Malfoy is making deals with those guys wearing capes
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    Thanks! The middle building's roof shape is also my favourite element of the model. Have you spotted a teeny tiny little detail? In the first image (which, by the way, I've just noticed I'd already posted whooops!) the curve isn't all the time continuous eg. concave, a long curve around a single radius, where the flame yellow and lime sections join, the curve changes direction (the radius of it would be OUTSIDE the façade rather than inside. To say it easily, the curve has a little bump . Have you spotted that /\ ? PD: I liked your previous avatar better
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    Time flies friends... I wanted to post the other images I did for this model two weeks ago but have been immensely busy and didn't even have time to remember it! Thankfully, my brain's not entirely numb yet so although I've remembered it late, I feel it's still somehow rellevant. In exchange for my dumbness, I'll briefly comment on them. Klee Corner: Curved Building by Pau Padrós, en Flickr Just remembered this picture was already posted /\ This image show really well how I placed the 6-wide ble building a little bit further in front for it not to sink in the overall appearance of the model. On pages 73 and 74 of HispaBrick Magazine 30, you can see better how I built the curved façade and the windows so they wouldn't collide inside the building. I really like how you can see the reflection of the brightly-coloured little monster on the dark blue wall Klee Corner: Yellowish Building by Pau Padrós, en Flickr The building over to the right eats up a big bunch of the piece count of this model. I mean, for a 32x32, 4480 pieces is just stupidly massive. I mean , I think this small building has more pieces than the curved and the blue one together, which is just ridiculous to think about. Klee Corner: Pavement by Pau Padrós, en Flickr I really like this image. No-one really commented on this part of the build (maybe the curve was just too distracting!), but I really love it, the red boxy mirrored section. Has a very straight forward design which just works, sometimes, simpler is better! By the way, can you guess which language the "Farmàcia" sign is written in? Klee Corner: Rooftops by Pau Padrós, en Flickr Here again, there are three different roof designs. Two (the ones on either sides) are fairly similar, complex and quasi-barroque. The middle one on the other hand, is again simple but does the effect nicely, it sweeps the eye down to the building to the right nicely. Klee Corner: Side by Pau Padrós, en Flickr What is the same element I always tend to place as a "signature" in Lego bricks? Look for it on the floor. It's also on ASIT, PSM and S&C! Klee Corner: Middle Rooftop by Pau Padrós, en Flickr Helter skelter!
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    Wow! This builder seems to have found an ideal scale, big enough to make things shine, but small enough to be able to work in "modules" and have that Manhattan vibe to the layout.
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    A complete model. You've faithfully recreated this Lithuanian little beauty! A thing I noticed (don't know if intentional) is the fact the tower over to the left feels slimmer, more striking, more "juvenile" than the real one. I love it, and the topping is very beautiful.
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    Thanks @Ogist! Italian piazzas and vias are very beautiful indeed. The perfect balance between shameless buildings and a heck of a mess covering them. Very much glad you like the atmosphere, what would you say is your favourite part about them? I'll tell you mine, the yellow building's rooftop, the feathers represent prison iron bars and the shallow roof, a prisoner
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    Nice! I didn't know how those things worked. So cool!
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