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  1. paupadros
    I adore this. All the way round a wonderful modular. The exterior structure is rich and wonderful; from the glorious roofs (and wonderful skylight) to the amazingly charming and charismatic Cool Yellow Building. Two things that impressed me greatly: First, making a building Cool Yellow without it feeling dead (I've tried twice but have had to go to a stronger hue of yellow both the times). Second, your braveness in the colours of the right building. The ground floor is very remisiscent of a pasta restaurant in Florence that I went to this April (very on point, I say!) and the top floor is something I wouldn't have dared to try. Therefore, amazing. Post your stuff on Flickr, there it's easier for ordinary people to find you. Looking forward to your next one! Pau PD: Cables running around the building, gotta love that.
  2. paupadros
    Thanks a lot! I had been trying to drag it somehow but (obviously) doesn't work. Thanks again!
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    I might be getting repetitive, but can somebody please tell me how to embed pictures like these from Flickr? It's proboably my dumbness for computers and such that's bugging. Thanks! Wonderful 16x32 modular, by the way. Although a format I've only tried once, and dislike building with, I love seeing designs using it. You know, the 32x32 or even 48x32 formats have that certain je ne sais quoi that is packed in a street scene that 16x32s just don't have. It's probably the lack of different postions of buildings.
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    (Though I'm not from Bilbao), it has a unique comination of New York-ish brightly coloured metal and glass sections pertruding from more traditional buildings. I would totally recommend looking at this list from Flickra, which exemplifies perfectly what I mean (take a look at all his other pictures from wonderful architecture too!) Something in those lines so that it is classical enough, but has a modern and contemporary flair that is totally irresistable.
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    That Laundomat print definetely shines through better here than it does in BB. Must agree. And, since you answer queation, could you tell me how to embed pictures from Flickr, so that they're clickable? Maybe I'm just insanely dumb or stupid, but I can't figure it out... Thanks a bunch! (If anyone else knows, of course tell me!)
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    So cool you live in one of those, we don't get them here in Southern Europe!
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    Funny, my LDD files are often close to 10.000 pieces lying everywhere... Like many others have mentioned, real life or architectural details on Flickr is what I look at to have some inspiration. In the past I remember beginning many of my models by looking at a real building and trying to replicate it in real life (some buildings are just wonderful to do this, but many suffer from things Lego just can't deal with. For instance, I've always felt like the palette misses kind of a muted tan, somewhat like dark tan, but not as strong and sort of greyish colour to build good cathedrals or buildings out of, but I guess that's never coming. More recently, inspiration comes from structure. Like with Sweets & Co.. I had the idea of a grand 45-degree façade with two buildings, but didn't know which buildings to place, but that didn't matter. Some research or real life encounters help massively. For another modular that I've been working on and am rendering, I found a picture of a house arrangement on the internet and thought: Hey! That could perfectly work in Lego. Plop a building here, this there, a weird façade there... And it just takes off. It is only when you finish designing that you realise it has actually taken you that much time! And again more recently with another modular that I'm working on. I saw an architectural detail in a movie that just looked to fit Lego like ring in finger. In fact, while watching the film I was constantly thinking: "Hey, this, but with cheese slope atop and 45º tiles hanging from it... My craziness and my stupidity all binded into one . Then at two in the morning I woke up, grabbed a pen, and drew what was troubling me. There it was. A prelininary sketch of what I'm working on right now. It must be said that building sizes (which I wrote down, half alseep) I still keep. You know the trick: shaping and colours. It's all there is (and a flippin' amazing rooftop and just all sorts of things lying around the street)! I've recently (with the last modular) been challenging myself to find colour and shape combos that make the eye not seem like it's a brand new colour when it's just a mix of others (Cool Yellow, Spring Green, Olive Green, Sand Green, Dark Orange and Dark Red all packed in a single façade!). It must be said that I did this because I had a façade that didn't work (many things don't, you'll see !) and just stood there trying things until something did work (again, basing off reality, this time though, through a building which I though would never work as Lego. And it doesn't, but working your way around it, you get something ten times nicer, a hundred times more original and something that makes you a thousand times prouder. PD: It must be said that if you want to build it eventually (which I know you would ) going totally bazangas isn't the cleverest idea. It's undoubtedly the most fun and exciting for me, though. I live in flower-power land when it comes to Lego or art, not reality, so I really don't care about feasibility nor anything that isn't going totally crazy in the design. Why would I even start a modular if I weren't convinced I could go even crazier and weirder than ever before? Always keeping the modular God-like laws intact, of course!
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    My applause. This looks perfect.
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    Looks very very nice! Now just wondering where you'll put it! Seeing it this way, it kind of reminds me of the Biff Hotel in Back to the Future II, when they go to the alternative 1985. I bet you weren't striving for that, but still looks gorgeous. Nice work! (and you know I don't often comment on many MOCs, aside from the modular rumours page!)
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    Good modular. In my opinion, laps Town Hall, Fire Brigade and Grand Emporium. It not only enouraged them to carry on with the line, but also to experiment further along. I doubt there would've been a Pet Shop without MS. And the experimentation with widths and double (even triple) buildings is all thanks to MS. It's on my top five, even above the Diner.
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    Sure. Send me a previous message with your mail. On the top of the tower there's two pieces that don't exist in their colours, though. This one in Medium Nougat (doesn't change a lot with tan or Light Grey and the roof pieces don't exist in sand green either. I can send it over, just consider that.
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    I don't really know how to make instructions for it, though. I could send over the file to you, as it is a product of my imagination, not, per say, a realistic, doable model. By that I mean that it's totally satble, but some pieces might not exist in some of the colours and that the print that goes all around the Palazzo Ducale doesn't exist. The tower alone, though, I bet would be no problem at all.
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    Had not seen your two modulars. My congratulations, they look really nice. And cosy, which is a hard thing to pull of in a modular as the ones that make them (including myself), know. And that function on the Ice-Cream store. Pure magic!
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    Absolutely brilliant! Very nicely lit up! I would like to know if anyone knows how the images are embedded so that it says "=name= on Flickr..." and is clickable and all. Thanks a bunch!
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    I could give away my LDD files, but a fair amount of the pieces I used, don't really exist in real life. I could post them to Rebrickable, though, if anyone interested.
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    Would've been interesting to have heard what Jamie would have to say on a video like this, rather than on a classic Designer video. Don't get me wrong, Mike is brilliant (not even God would've pulled off that Saturn V, just look how poor the origianl submition was! ). In fact, I own the Saturn V, the F40 and the Beetle, all of which as his. But again, he's more into the technical side of things (that's probably why he put a whole wall on SNOT to cover up the floor divisions ). But if Mike is a little more like Mercedes, Jamie is a little more like Ferrari. Everything is more bravo, more flamboyant, more extravangant, more structurally sound. Jamie is the kind of guy that would've tried to make a 32x32 plate have three buildings on it. Heck, whay not!? Let's make a building a 6-wide! And go bananas after that.
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    Really nice tikis by the way! They remind me of those in the first Lego Indiana Jones game on the very first level. Good memories that brings. I also welcome new colours, but it was just a fun thing to doom some design choices now that's the end of the year. Don't you worry, it's not too serious. Bright Green is also my favourite shade of green (the Sand family resides on another part of my holy mountain!). Cool you're a Master Builder, maybe you could show us or tell us some challenges they give you and all that kind of stuff. Greetings!
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    What'll be the grand finales? A modular maybe?
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    I own BB. It's a set that I didn't understand the hate for at the beginning, but as moths passed by, started getting why. It's just a little simpler than previous modulars. To me, it's worse than PR, DO and AS, but waaaay superior than PR, PS and the new DD. Mine, right next to DO looks just . Very nice set, but that looks better when next to another.
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    Dark Orange has also become my got-to colours when it comes to browns. Hope they'll expand it a little in the future (you know, reddish brown is very nice but is a little less personal to me ) I was just having a little fun with it. It is a nice set and beautiful colour that deserves a little push in the future, and Elves is the only theme that seems to be making the nicest pieces in the nicest colours, so... Totally welcome for me! I had never ever seen or thought an egg could even be blue. Thanks for letting me know. I saw the Angry Brids movie, but can't remember the blue egg. Something to do with that big eagle, maybe? A colour I also look forward to greatly. As I love all the Art Nouveau architecture here in Barcelona (which is full of wrought copper-coloured iron everywhere), I hopw I'll be able to use it as fencing and things of that sort!
  21. paupadros
    Colour and Recolour Awards 2017! (I've thrown in some pieces there too) The year is ending... And as we see new bricks and recolours coming in 2018, it's nice to look back and see our favourite recolours (odd ones and obvious ones, too!). Hateful recolours are accepted too! 1. Cool but somewhat odd recolours of the Year: I'll say two: First, the SNOT brick with adjacent snotting points in Medium Blue that appeared on the Carousel. Second, the "tooth 1x1 tile" in Cool Yellow in Joker Manor (as Joker's teeth) 2. Colour of the Year: The vast improvement of the Medium Nougat range (mostly thanks to Clayface). Honorable mention to Copper Metallic (dark turquoise is for next year!). 3. Favourite recolour of the Year: A subtle one from one of the sets that I fell less for this year. A set which doesn't click anything (although I comprehend why some people love it) in me but has a trully wonderful and magical recolour. The medium nougat scroll in Winter Village Station. 4. Most useless recolour of the Year: Who hasn't dreamt of having golden Lego bananas!? Now a thing. Also rather pointless the expansion of the "flower stud" range knowing there's a new mould next year. 5. Best usage of a super specific piece: An easy one, the Beetle's arches in London Bus (where I think look even better for what they were originally meant for) 6. Worst usage of a super specific piece: This one is more of personal taste than anything else. I'll have to say an Elves set that uses the same Beetle's arch (in my opinion) horrendously 7. This is gone too far and it's cringy award: We'll make an entire castle out of Spring Green! They should've known that Spring Green is one of the toughest colours to mix, along with Cool Yellow and Aqua. 8. Piece (and colour) I've built with most this year (or I've enjoyed building with the most): Last year, I had an odd crush for the telescope, this year, it's the egg! While I've not moved much further from its white variant, it has been the highlight for crowning buildings (along with Thor's Hammer as well ). The egg, by the way has an extremely strange dark azure recolour... Lego might've been drinking something when choosing that recolour. And the colour... This year, I've regained my love for orange! A colour I'd (for some reason) neglected totally since now. Now say your candidates for some of the categories or invent some! Lookinf forward to hearing from you guys!
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    Fun fact about it, it actually has two façades on two different streets and the one I showed is, in fact, the back façade (but I think is better than the main one). I love that it looks like a growing mushroom farm, which is somewhat creppy but cool. I had the intention to try. But... I've literally no idea how to do the upper section (I think the windows themselves could do the trick with some angling here and there), but the roof top... Just bananas... And look at it from the top, it makes somewhat like a 45-degree angle on it whole, and tell me how you'd make that work. Well, you could actually double it up somehow. I don't know I won't pretend I've got a clue how I'd turn this into a modular!
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    Trying to build Casa Batlló in Lego is a suicidal mission. Trust me, I once tried and sorta failed. The building that turned out was nice, but it looked nothing like Casa Batlló! And talking about Art Nouveau, here in Catalunya there are hundreds and hundreds of small houses around every corner (not as grandiose as the ones you posted up there, but nice and very Art Nouveau-ish. My favourite is Casa Comalat, also located in Barcelona, which is an awkward but freaking awesome piece of witchcraft!
  24. paupadros
    Thanks! Hopefully some of your finest tricking equipment will have been bought in the Magic Shop! Thanks a lot, appreciated, honestly
  25. paupadros
    No sorry
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