fillishave
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I have, for serveral reasons, been taking an extended leave of absence ? from the Lego hobby for a while. I’ll surely be back when life is a bit more normal again I believe I still have the LDD-file for the build if that helps? There were never any proper instructions for it but please let me know and I’d be more than happy to send the file to you (just have to locate it first!)
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Thanks! Yeah it would of course benefit from a bigger drive in area but I wanted to keep it in a 32x32 baseplate and figured if someone wanted to make it bigger it would probably be one of the easiest mocs of all time to achieve :-) Again thanks for the kind comments!
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Thank you so much!
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Tackar! Thanks!
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Thanks!
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Thank you so much! I'm sure yours will be spectacular as well and with your personal twist on it, it will probably make for a great Ideas-submission as well Thank you! Please do, sharing is caring I could try to put one in the ticket building or even on the roof. And if that looks like crap I will take your second advice and say that it's a retro styled modern drive-in with a state of the art OLED-display Thank you so much!
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Thanks! Yeah, it would really need to be bigger to make proper sense but like you said I wanted to keep it the same size as the modular buildings. A wider build would still be compatible (like Assembly Square) but that on the other hand wouldn't really help with this build anyways. But I'm figuring Lego builds in general haven't always been too strict in that sense anyways. Ha, ha I feel like the most stupid person on earth right now but I have actually completely forgotten to add the actual projector! Ok at least I know what to add in my first update if this project picks up some speed
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Oh of course there's bound to be some similarities, they are both British pubs after all I think it's very clear that your pub is 100% your own build with your own building style!
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Thanks so much! I guess that's the best way to go about it so you know you're out before you even get in
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I just looked at you pub and it's really an awesome build! I actually built a British pub as well last year, made a comment in your thread about how your pub probably attracts a nicer crowd than mine To answer your question I use Cinema 4D with Octane render which would have been a very expensive combo if I only used it for rendering Lego. I use that software for work so that's why I have access to it but I believe many people have achieved fantastic results with Blender which if free. The biggest give away in my renders are the harsh edges and lack of variation and imperfections in the surfaces but since this wasn't meant to act as a real beauty render but more to convey the feel of the build it was good enough for me this time. Going to look into another renderer next time though to see if I can get rid of those hard egdes a bit easier!
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Fantastic build with so much detail! I absolutely love the roof detailing (not sure what that part of a roof is called but the whole section just below the roof). I think this is where all the nice and friendly pub visitor go while my pub get's more of the dodgier crowd
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Thank you so much for your kind words! Yeah I put quite a lot of thought into making it a size and brick count that would stand an actual chance of being a real set. If this would have been a personal project it would probably have ended up being three times as long and with three times as many bricks Extra happy that you liked the cars! Those were a real challenge for me since I have never built a car in my entire life
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Thanks! Just supported your Simpsons skyline!
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My first Lego Ideas-submission! In order for this to have a realistic chance of ending up as an Ideas-set I wanted to build something that was less than 1500 pieces and didn’t involve too many strange SNOT and/or illegal techniques. I personally really liked the new Downtown Diner so I thought I’d build upon that (pun intended) Since a couple of the pieces I wanted weren't available in certain colors, dark turqoise and pink in particular, I decided to make this an all digital build (there is actually a 20% built version at home…) If you like it I would be super greatful if you take the time to vote for me at: https://ideas.lego.com/projects/565f68af-6f67-46ca-bd91-70849dc4c2f9 You can find more pictures over at Lego ideas!
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I am truly humbled and very grateful for your fantastic support of my build! Thank you so much for your kind words. That is really what I was aiming for; a house that was very different but somehow would still "work" together with other houses. The "odd house on the hill"-type of house that's always been there and where changes by time happen all around it but somehow doesn't seem to affect this particular house. Perhaps a bit pretentious description but I hope you understand what I mean
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Thanks for the shout-out!!
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How to Design a Modular or a Non-Modular Building?
fillishave replied to LegoModularFan's topic in LEGO Town
Thanks for the mention! I have a fairly limited supply of bricks at home (well that's subjective of course, my wife would say I have waaaaaaaay too many bricks ) and since I live in central Stockholm and am not a megabillionaire, space is somewhat limited as well so I mostly build in LDD. But the same drawback follows in building digitally as with all digital vs physical creative processes I would say; there's not as big a chance for "happy accidents" when you work in a digital environment. What I mean by that is if you sit with real pieces chances are bigger that you will look at something and realize that perhaps you can use it in a way you hadn't thought of which I think is a lot less likely to happen when you work digitally. So my goal is actually to move away more from digital building. The benefit is of course that you have access to an infinite number of parts. But I will work in LDD and then adjust and improve when I do the physical building; sometimes things that look good on a screen might not look as good in real life. In terms of inspiration for what to do for me it's more of a challenge to decide which of all ideas I want to work on. I get such a tremendous amount of inspiration of all the fantastically talented builders that I see everyday on blogs and Flickr. But personally I like to work from some type of narrative if you will: I try to imagine what the building is for, who lives/visits it and make small scenes both in my head and in the build to make it come alive. Some people are more interested in the architectural design I guess but for me the playfulness is part of what makes it fun for me. I'm too old to be able to actually play with Lego so this acts as a bit of an adult stand-in version of playing. Specific goals or challenges can also work as motivation I think. For instance with my latest build I wanted to do something that had many round shapes and curves since the first build I did was much more square in it's design. -
Thank you so much! I'm a huge admirer of your buildings so to hear such nice comments from you really means a lot! Thanks a million! I have always enjoyed MOCs that have a bit of fun to them and really enjoying those parts myself! Thank you! The Frankenstein-scene was a lot of fun to build so I'm glad you liked it!
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Yes I was very happy to be featured on TBB! The main fun part of Lego is of course the building itself but it is always nice to be appreciated! Exciting, I'd be more than happy to help in any way I can! Hit me up when the time comes for you and we'll take it from there. I'm out at my country house in june/july and am more or less confined to building completely digitally so that should work out good
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Thank you so much for your kind words!
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Thank you so much! Thanks! Originally when I built the digital micro building I just wanted to make something that was elevated over the sidewalk and had a somewhat of a story book strangeness to it. A house that doesn't really look like other houses and has strange curves, oddly placed towers and a somewhat eerie feel to it. The kind of house the kids on the street rush by as they tell each other rumors on what goes on inside it. Since two people have mentioned it I am obviously, on a subconscious level, inspired by the mighty Jabba the Hut's palace. But really not anything very specific; Hogwarts castle, haunted houses, kids books houses etc. I am truly humbled and, considering all the other stunning and amazing creations that gets posted on a daily basis, feel almost a little embarrassed by your super kind and supportive words! I walked around happy all day yesterday after your Flickr-comments! So big, big thanks! Also what a cool building! It really does have somewhat of a resemblance in the positioning and composition of the roofs!
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Thanks! Someone else said it reminded them of Jabba's Palace! Being a true 70s kid who grew living and loving Star Wars that's truly a good reference for me Thank you! Yeah when you think about it it kind of makes sense. When I'm drawing I quite often do thumbnail sketches that are more or less silhouttes to get a good read and shape and then I make a larger more detailed drawing. And yes it was a lot of fun being able to put all of those details that I had in my mind when I made the micro build!
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Hi everyone! First post! My name if Filip and even though I have been playing around with Lego for many years both as a kid and with my own kids I'm quite new to the AFOL-scene. I was encouraged to post this to Eurobricks by LegoModularFan who gave me some overwhelmingly nice comments on Flickr yesterday when I posted this so here goes! I created this for Brixtars modular building competition and this is my second attempt at a full fledged 32x32 modular building. My first building, "The Queens Brick" was quite square in it's shape so I wanted to challenge myself this time and put much more round shapes and angles in there. It was a lot of fun trying out different techniques where some worked better than others but I'm quite happy with the end result even though it will for sure not win any prizes for stability ;) Technically it doesn't really meet the requirements of a modular since I didn't put the technical bricks in there and the street is a bit narrow but it would be an easy enough mod to make it legal. Enough words and on with pictures of my steam-punkish house on the hill with a secret lab for horrible experiments on the top floor and a basement where the irresponsible owner pours his toxic waste out in the sewer system. Here is a link to the rest of the images: https://flic.kr/s/aHskuXCmdk It's quite often one sees micro builds of regular sized modulars but this was actually made the other way around. The idea started with an all digital micro build I did for a competition last year that looked like this: The instructions for the building is available on Brixtar but please bear in mind that the digital instructions are not 100%. For instance, the smaller roof used some parts that didn't actually exist so they need to be replace. Also both roofs need some very heavy reinforcing or they will, I know from hard experience, crumble in your hands :) But please use them as a source for inspiration if you wish! Last but not least, cred where cred is due; the fences/walls were created after inspiration from Jonas Kramms fantastic examples and the usage of tan skeleton legs for the decorations around the windows was something similar I saw a while ago but I couldn't find that image so I'm not sure who came up with it in the first place. Please let me know if you are the person who made that and i will of course mention you both here and on Flickr! Thanks for watching and please let me know both what you might like and what you might not like so I can learn and improve!