ER0L
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[MOC] The Greenville brewery company, est. 1927.
ER0L replied to Captain Green Hair's topic in LEGO Town
Fantastic, very stylish build, I really love it. :thumbup: Brickwork, chimney, the lettering on the roof, and also those doors are incredibly well done. The truck is the icing on the cake. Congratulations! -
Fantastic build! I'm totally in awe for people who manage to build such huge models. I couldn't muster the necessary patience (nor would I have enough parts to build something like this). Plus there are lots of incredibly well-built details in this. Congratulations! :thumbup: Anyhow, since I've seen quite a few large ship models built in this style: Would it be possible to get a smooth hull at this large scale? I know we're talking about Lego here, but since this is supposed to look like a scale model, a smooth hull would match the look of the elegantly designed superstructure much better in my opinion.
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Top-notch, as usual, you really nailed the style with the typical shapes and colours of that time. Also the figs are great. Those trousers + that hairpiece ... My favourite bits are the clock and the bar, especially the SNOT-work underneath. Plus I like the fact that the bar stools were designed to fit the figs with their special proportions. All in all there's nothing not to love here! :thumbup: Now you need to build a Super Constellation to get some background for your lobby.
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Thank you! Thanks! Looking forward to your mods. Thanks a lot! Well, black is the most forgiving colour, especially regarding cars ... Glad you like it!
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What about this one?
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No sooner had I seen mqbui1's recreation of my "City Champions" Lambo Gallardo from last year (see first page) in black than I went to the paint shop with it ... Together with the only other remainder of the City Champions 2015, the Octan Racer. Those cars are considerably lower than a fig yet fit a complete minifig driver. Together with the 2016 Corvette: While the Corvette fits better into the range of "Larger City Scale" vehicles, the Lambo is even lower (for one layer) which is quite important regarding supercars. Thanks for looking!
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Fantastic! :thumbup: I always wanted to build something like this, but never managed to. Great idea and execution, also the design of the building is very nice. Now we have all that great pneumatics and PF stuff, and it's rarely used on Town builds - you used both of them. I especially love the movable door - don't think I've seen this done with pneumatics before. Awesome job!
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Wonderful design with lots of great features, also on the interior. :thumbup: It's a great idea to have a basement to get some depth for the pool and use it for the garage. I also love the use of rocks and plants as a contrast to the straight shapes of the building. Great job!
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@agadoijo: They look cute! Large and a bit "chibi", but instantly recognizable and fitting 2 figs side by side. Maybe this is what JSCan is looking for. @Nemo57: Nice design, especially the rear end.
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Interesting approach. Looks quite cozy in there, great use of the cups! The windscreen could be improved in my opinion, can the 1 x 4 hinged part be used here somehow?
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Thank you! I'm still wondering about those narrow roofs on the set cars. Probably it's got something to do with the ability to take off the roof and windscreen together to put the fig in and out. A new 6w windscreen would have been necessary for that purpose. On the other hand the 4w SC windscreen IS a new part, ... Of course you wouldn't be able to use those long curved slopes together with 6-wides, but well ...
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@Sven: Sorry for the late reply (1,5 years later ... ), I must have missed this somehow. Glad you like them. Of course you may use any design or detail for your purposes. @JSCan: In my experience it's impossible to place 2 figs side by side in a 5w vehicle - the car must at least be 6 studs wide. By using the old thin doors or tiles (together with brackets) there's enough room for the little guys if you place their arms properly. There are in fact 6-wide Mini Coopers, e. g. those built by Miro Dudas, see Maybe you can use them as an inspiration. In any case you'll have to modify the sides to get enough room for the figs.
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Thanks! Well, cut out stickers aren't quite my department (though there were times I did that, too ), however, your conversion looks nice. Have you already tried to omit the headlights stickers and to use bricks instead? Group shot, which was still missing:
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Nice! Great that you have modified so many Speed Champions cars already. It's true that opting for 8w quite improves the proportions of the SC cars. I'm especially looking forward to your Mustang which looks very promising - also because it seems to have built headlights. Btw. welcome in the large guild of Lego car builders. Do you have a Flickr account? If so, I'd invite your SC MODs to the Speed Champions Alternates Group which already has some nice builds in it: https://www.flickr.com/groups/legospeedchampions/ Keep it up!
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Thanks! - I'm no fan of them either. As said, we now have practically everything we need to build nice minifig scale cars - apart from proper windscreens. No idea why that shouldn't be possible. However there are quite a few alternatives used on more sophisticated MOCs (like double panes with clips which even allow to get 5w windscreens) - this is rather meant to be easy to reproduce.
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Thank you! Regarding the Lambo I just tried to imagine a new type of "City Champions" car using some typical elements of the series. Concerning the newer series there were some remarks on stance and rear end of the Dragster Camaro on Flickr. That's why I wanted to see what the car looks like without those large rear wheels. Well - a bit slammed, as you might spot. However, this is not too bad for a car like this. Regarding the rear there's hardly any room for the exhausts, maybe the backend could be lifted for one plate. Wheels are spinning nicely btw., though it doesn't look like it. By tinkering with this I decided to rip off the stickers on the hood and trunk - this is the actual result: Works quite well, I guess. By replacing only a few parts on the set car you get quite a good-looking Camaro which fits well into the usual 6w/7w width range.
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Third and last MOD from the SC Chevy department. This is the model with the fewest modifications, I was able to keep the wheelbase and even the SC mudguards which is a nice thing since no hole fixing around the wheels is required. Plus it looks quite nice, I guess. The original model is really great (as is the whole set), there are lots of nice and very inspiring ideas in there (e. g. that great front spoiler), it's stuffed with nice SNOT and upside down techniques - much to learn here for anybody who is interested in minifig scale car building, even for advanced builders. However, I had to shorten the frontend of the Camaro for one stud to adjust the proportions plus I changed roof and windscreen which don't really work at the original model in my opinion. More views: Now these are really great times for us car builders, we have all those brackets and slopes and mudguards and wheels and bumpers and all the stuff needed to build nice cars in minifig scale. Only regarding windscreens there's a certain need for optimization but hopefully we haven't seen the end of the matter yet ... Thanks for watching!
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Another MOD is the red Camaro from #75874, not as tough to modify as the Corvette btw. Since the original design is very strong (in spite of the proportion issues) I've tried to keep as many of those nice design features as possible. The use of the roof part for example is a great idea to get more lively sides. "Bracket-and-tile" car builds will profit very much from that. The spoiler is very nice, too. All in all we can learn a lot from the design of the original model. Shrinking the frontend wasn't that easy, however, the new 2x2 wedge plate was very helpful here. More angles: Together with Corvette Z06: Preview (WIP):
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Thank you! Regarding that gap: I didn't find a better solution here, though I tried quite a few alternatives. My experience is that it's sometimes better to leave things as they are if the whole shaping is working instead of struggling with details. However, there might be a solution that just didn't come to my mind.
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Thanks, glad you like it! Speaking of the rear, I modified the backlights (which might look better now) plus, as requested on Flickr, the Z06 now has proper SC hubcaps (which increases the amount of genuine SC elements on it very much): You might recognize the car being a little lower than the fig.
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First take on one of the new Speed Champions cars. Yesterday I was able to buy a few discounted small SC sets, #75870 among them. I just thought: Fine, scrap the old McLaren P1 (see above), set back the windscreen, add some parts of the new set, and a new "City Champion" Corvette Z06 is born. I couldn't be more wrong ... This is the result of a 6 hour build. Neither of the SC windscreens proved to be suitable, I had to add the good old 6w windshield. However, I managed to build in that great new wedge plate. All in all it's quite difficult to find adequate solutions for what is done with stickers on the original cars, regarding constructive elements like headlights. However, the car is much lower than the original build (a bit lower than a fig), proportions are improved (in my opionion, that is). A fig can be placed inside (in the center, which isn't ideal, however, it's typical of the SC builds). Another pic of the backend:
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Thanks for the mention, this looks very nice indeed. It's got a fine silhouette with that curvy hood, plus I love the backend. I was just wondering what it would look like with the 6w windscreen and roof and gave it a try: Just a suggestion. A 6w roof on a 6w car isn't ideal, however in my opinion it works better than the 4w windscreen.
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Very nice, it's a good idea to set back the windscreen. Looks much more like the original. Plus it's great you omitted the stickers. To mimic a rear window you may use some black 4x1 or 4x2 curved slopes. I see no problem with the windshield here btw. It quite meets the original, better than any other windscreen at this scale. Speaking of which: By widening the SC cars to 8w we of course get much better proportions. On the other hand it's quite difficult to combine large cars like this with other City stuff which has a much smaller scale.
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I do like it, especially the frontend looks really nice. Great that it fits so many figs. One aspect that could be improved in my opinion is the waistline which should be higher at the sides. If you look at the original car you can see that the waistline is nearly as high as the hood whereas the roof is very low - which is quite important to get the proper look of a car of that era. By lifting the sides you'd also get more ground clearance beneath the mid section. However, this looks very promising. If it's the first car MOC you've built I'm looking forward to further minifig scale cars from you!
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I was thinking of Jonathan Lopes' work, however, the scale seems to be considerably smaller than yours. Quite inspiring anyway: http://www.moc-pages...lder.php/143178