paupadros
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That looks really good! I particulary like the "simplified" but very clean look your town has. Looking forward to seeing more from you!
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Thanks! I think I striked the balance right between an evocative design and something that is just bananas. Sorry for the late response, I guess, "happy new year" is more appropriate!
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No matter what it is, I'm glad you like it! In fact, I'd done (if I recall correctly) ten different designs for that part of the model. It's funny how from the sketch I made when I began making it, the only surviving part is the ground floor. Merry christmas!
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Amazing! Every new series from Lego I get the feeling there's not much more that has not been done, but I'm always proven wrong by you! Both the "Pizza Man" and the "Amusment Park Guy" are awesome and probably the best. I'm still stoked Lego hasn't produced the hat from the Gondolier, here awesomely reused. I love Lady Justice too. Quinceañera's hair and your verison of David's Napoleon are pieces I absolutely adore. Beyond particular cases, I absolutely love your continuous pursue of originality but of fesibility too. Your work is spectacular! I designed a custom Bowie figure for my latest modular and boy I've learnt to appreciate work like yours better!
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Thanks @LEGO Train 12 Volts! The closest anyone had got to conveying the "glass and iron" architecture of the Belle Epoque is maybe Lego with BB, although it still is very off. I kind of wanted to turn Guimard's parisian metro entrances into a building and that's what I ended up with . So glad you love it! Thanks a lot! The interior is not based on any shop in particular, I just "copy-pasted" bits and pieces I liked from different ones. In fact, the red arched exterior of the shop is inspired by the metro entrances of the Northern Line. I very glad you like and and hope you found some inspiration here and there
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Amazing models! I personally prefer them with the fenders and mirror, but having two passengers is also nice. I would be great if you could find a balance!
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Hello everybody! I just wanted to show you one of the many iterations I did for this building (in fact, the second-to-last one and the only one rendered !). There's some peculiar last-minute changes I made that are rather fun to spot. I thought all the changes were for good then, but looking at the image again last week, I couldn't help but think I should've sticked to the roofline I had for the white/dark blue/flame yellow part.
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Hey, @paokus! You've been getting a lot of love from my dear EB companions in the topic "Inspirational Modular and Castle MOCs" topic that @LegoModularFan set up. It's funny how, although we are from the same country, your style and mine of making modulars is entirely different. In fact, in the past I've not been too keen on your models, but I might rethink my position. Your last three are good. Hope to see more of your stuff here!
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I aslo don't really like this kind of architecture, but the shaping and the nice colours you've put in look great. The section where Dark Blue, Dark Orange and Olive Green meet is absolutely superb. Awesome job!
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Maybe a topic could be opened up where people leave their own creations of the year. Compiling that would be easier.
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Would you guys like to do some sort of a "best modulars of 2018 posted on EB" poll? I was thinking it would be an awesome idea to remember all the amazing work done this year but maybe the competitive aspect would detract from the fun. I would totally be up for it as I can't recall a year in which better MOCs have been built. In fact, I would have a lot of trouble choosing a favourite
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A big round of applaue for @Giacinto Consiglio. Casa Batlló is among the hardest buildings to recreate when it comes to shape and especially colours. This is, by far, better than the version I did some years ago and there's absolutely nothing I would point out that I dislike ( @LegoModularFan, I think that cheese slopes wouldn't do much better though ). I'm just curious, how long have you had this MOC waiting? I remember you showed it to me when building that collaborative MOC last summer. Have you changed anything significant about it? I remember being impressed then by the beautiful angled balconies and rendered... I'm seriously in love. Oh, I love how you didn't leave the roof unfnished and placed a skylight. Super nice touch! I'm guessing the yellow townhouse was built afterwards, as a counterpart to Casa Batlló, wasn't it? I must say I'm genuinely surprised how well yellow works with reddish brown and I absolutely adore how you've overcomplicated the architectural detailing just for the sake of it. In fact, the ground entrace to this house reminds me of the entrace to "Els Quatre Gats", a café where the Art Nouveau artists and architects of Barcelona hung out to discuss new ideas (with Gaudí among them, of course!). Not sure if it's actually inspired by that but it would make sense if it did . The round window on the second floor and the amazing six-wide "turret"-like protruding bit add a very nice touch that reminds me of Victor Horta's achitecture. Big fan of the slanted roofs too What to say, then? By a long shot my favourite modular from yours and an absolute joy to behold. This is a really amazing modular. Oh, I also love the inclusion of Saint George's spear in Casa Batlló, as it pierces through the dragon's back!
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Super intersting spreadsheet! I couldn't resist a subtle grin when I read the latter modulars at the bottom of the height chart . From my experience I realised that furnishing onto a 45-degree wall takes up a lot more space than on an ordinary wall. The figures I'm certain are like this, but in real life it gets filled up more easily than normal That's a bit stupid. In fact, I for some reason connect those doors to modulars than the regular transparent ones. The whacky, unrealistic things also make these buildings fun. I mean, a vet on top of a garage surely is not a good combo in real life but it can work in Lego. The old smileys to me added to the utopian atmosphere. Maybe boy maybe girl, who knows?
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Super fun version of both your builds and storyline. Merry chirstmas!
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I think Jamie meant it in the sense of "a kind of building most people have at least seen". This has no link to the fact I don't really like the new modular. In fact, reflecting on that, I've not come across many buildings that look like PR, for instance.
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Maybe shitty thing to say, but I've been told in EB that one of my modulars looked like "dog's breakfast". I would listen to what they have to say about their creation and say what I would've done instad. In fact, if that person hadn't been harsh on me for one of my models (Old Ben's Gallery, by the way), I would've never built Sweets & Co. at all. Definitely not an appropriate thing to say, but a necessary one to improve design. Indeed. I'm probably not the best modular builder on this planet (as some of my models don't even follow the modular rules strictly) and I don't have to constantly be checking whether a certain piece in a certain colour already exists and don't have a time limit either, but I believe something a bit better could've been done. It's very interesting to read some of the comments as one of my favourite bits (the garage's ground floor) is the one some people dislike. I don't think designers are forced to use new pieces made for that year. Yes, it's the flagship set of the year, but wouldn't they have used a ton of Vibrant Coral if so? Just out of curiosity, almost all of the pieces from the top floors of my model have been made in those colours.
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Honoured! I agree to everything you've said about this model. I personally find them hideous! To me, they look like a cheap way of filling up a façade that has nothing going on. Again, this was designed by someone who doesn't give a damn about architecture. Yes, the humour is great, but the signs themselves (or the huuuuge "Diner" sign" in DD) are -again- cheap ways of enhancing a building. My rule of thumb is always "let the architecture speak", but when a building is struggling to look any decent, give it a pompous colour scheme, place some signs here and there and you're done. I see them as "temporal fixes", great for run-down buildings, like a petrol station in the middle of the desert, a house in a wild west town or something of that sort. I was thinking about what Jamie said to a recent HispaBrick interview. He said something along the lines of: "We often go for houses that are recognisable or that the fans can relate to", when asked about a building in Art Nouveau style. The two last entries to the line don't seem to prove so... . About the Garage, not liking it much more today than yesterday. It still looks very unpleasant to the eye.
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Agreed. I'm really glad for those who love it and are definitely going to buy it, but this feels off for me. Share your point of view entirely @LegoModularFan. Maybe not worst, but worse than all the ones from PR to now as for now.
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Interesting... Definitely feels like a dumbed-down version of a modular building. The layout is veeeeeery reminiscent of my own modular "Sweets & Co.", and having basically invented this format myself, I know what its limitations are. A gap between both striaght sections and the diagonal one is inevitable, but this to me just looks like a bloody huge hole in the model. The colours don't mesh well either and the architectural details Jamie had us used to are just gone. The model is honestly hideously topped off. The 1x1 quater round tiles to me just look like a childish way of fisnishing a model. The interiors look pretty dead too, but that's not really what I care about. I honeslty think that the designer doesn't love architecture and has just tried to copy an existing house (always a bad idea, by the way). I'll stop moaning, I guess. Looks cheerful but not in the slightest elegant or beautiful. The higher price is also insulting. The car and the exterior of the ground floor look good. Again, as I designed a model like this almost two years ago, I know it's hard to make something decent of the ground floor and, I think the designer did a better job than I did there Here's my building if you want to draw comparisons:
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Modular Building Sets - Rumours and Discussion
paupadros replied to The Jersey Brick Guy's topic in LEGO Town
So in the end, it will be the first rumour that emerged! I'm also a bit curious about the architectural style they might go for; the first floor being a diner kind of forces the rest of the look of the building, but a petrol station could basically be a one off-thing on the ground level for then to be whatever on top. Here hoping for something really well crafted, packed with great pieces and great shaping. A corner unit ultimately allows for a more free floor plan, so it would be great to have an alleyway of some sort (Mike -yep assuming this modular's his - said he liked buildings that didn't go until the end of the plot). Hoping for some Vibrant Coral, but that's wishful thinking. The time's coming, guys! -
Beautiful build! Many things to point out; I'm definitely a big fan of the dark tan section on the side and the whole texuring on the façade especially with shutter pieces.
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Modular Building Sets - Rumours and Discussion
paupadros replied to The Jersey Brick Guy's topic in LEGO Town
Doesn't "garage" scream "Mike Psiaki" to you guys? -
Modular Building Sets - Rumours and Discussion
paupadros replied to The Jersey Brick Guy's topic in LEGO Town
Yes. It seemed the most logical regarding what they often do. Let's see how it turns out. This time, my expectations are not at all high, we'll see. -
I agree with @Bricked1980's point. In fact, if you're a MOC builder, it can get a bit frustrating when the build you've built for such a long time is just glossed over. Maybe you could even say which models from Eurobricks members are your favourite and sort of "tag" them to say their favourite bits about it, hwat they would change if they built it now and all that sort of thing
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Modular Building Sets - Rumours and Discussion
paupadros replied to The Jersey Brick Guy's topic in LEGO Town
Yes! Both ideas would be amazing. I do agree that an opera might target an adult audience better and the exterior details they can pack could be beyond amazing. I built a 70s record store for my latest modular. It is not even close to as restrictive than an opera. I mean, they can put it on the ground floor and totally different businesses/homes on top, which is what they often do. Anyway, something music-related would be great!