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Thanks! In order for the steering wheel to not collide with the driver's feet, it has to be either pushed a little far toward him by one plate as seen here or raised up one plate. As for car doors, well, I'm not sure I could really fit them in on this particular design. I never really go out of my way to try to, either, but I tend to put aesthetics above function. Again, thanks for the feedback!

Thanks for the feedback. I could do it the way whoward69 did (linked above) and hold the wheels with pins rather than an axle, but I sort of like the way the technic half bushing looks on the end. I could always try it, though!

Oh, very useful, thanks! Just a heads-up, there are two sets listed as "Camper" in that thread - both the actual camper and the truck with the helicopter.

V-LV-27B This is a design of mine from about 5 years ago. I rendered it in '04 and never built it until this month, so I actually wasn't the first person to build my own design. "whoward69" used some cross-section renders I had and built this iteration, from which I promptly stole the hood ornament for my own. And here's mine! More pics: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=371432 More pics with a zesty pinch of words: http://mocpages.com/moc.php/102439

Sorry to hear about your situation. I wish you the best in getting going again. Great design, by the way. It certainly looks more like a full-on hotel now!

2005 had a pretty heavy focus on emergency response-themed sets. Call me mundane, but I prefer the day-to-day and civilian stuff, which there seems to be a good bit of for the '09 line! edit: 2007 was pretty nice, too.

Wow, what a great build! I particularly like the fish stand under the tree. Very well thought out.

Apologies if this was posted somewhere before, but I checked the first and most recent pages and didn't see it. Is there a release date for 7639 Camper yet? It's my favorite of the upcoming sets. I just love these new cars and trucks, especially after how impressed I was by the 7991 Garbage Truck!

I'm always up for city/town vehicles, but I feel the contest would have to be a bit more focused than just "vehicles." The previous idea of emergency vehicles is good, or we could go with civilian, or something along those lines - subtheme-based. Or, perhaps a particular size requirement? I'd love to see what people would come up with if the requirement was road vehicles in odd stud widths only. 3-wide, 5-wide, 7-wide, or even 9-wide if you're feeling crazy? Limit it to minifig scale, of course... I think this has potential!

Looking forward to 1000, then! P.S. One of the other forums I read currently has 13,113 users signed in, with 8,751 of them being members.

Now with 100% more Real Bricks! http://mocpages.com/moc.php/102266 - Feel free to comment if you like it (or hate it)!

Now that is creepy. I love it, though! There's a lot to appreciate: the angular walls really make that shot from the bottom up incredibly imposing. The birds "attached" to the perches is brilliant. I love the shelves with the walls of glass. The roughness of the fireplace is a very appropriate backdrop and contrasts nicely with the smooth dark gray walls. The furniture is great, the poses are well thought out. The bust on the shelf is absolutely inspired - I can't even begin to voice how much I love it. I have no complaints. This is just perfect. edit: Crates for wood paneling? The more I look at this, the more I find to appreciate. edit2: The three domes on the right-hand shelf being staggered using a plate, a brick, and a wheel is also fantastic. I should stop now.

I'd be happy to take some specific suggestions regarding the colors. I've tried playing around with it a bit, adding more green in place of some of the dark gray and such, but I'm finding it hard to implement without losing that "old apartment building" look.

Thank you! There's a detailed breakdown of the window construction at the bottom of this page. They were actually the very first thing I designed for this building!

B-OM-6E Hello! I've been working on this one for a while. I don't know how much time I have invested in it, but it's... many hours. Anyway, I think it's finally in a presentable state so here we are! I have a lot to say about this one, so instead of writing a ridiculously long thread, I'll direct you to some MOCPages! The Non-Corner Cafe Construction of the Cafe Brickshelf, once moderated The MOCPage has explanations, but the Brickshelf doesn't horribly distort my images with JPG compression. Your choice!

Oh, be my guest! I can provide any cross section shots you need. The cab and bed are actually very stable, the bed more so than it looks, it's only that wraparound section used for the front end that wouldn't be. I'm trying to think of a clean way to reinforce the front without impacting the looks.

That is absolutely amazing. The amount of detail and function and just general fun stuff is ridiculous. This is a very well thought out design and your experience in working with these definitely shows. It has a very practical feel to it but still feels very LEGO. I'll just end with this: it's been a long time since I've seen a MOC that makes me want to just sit down and play with it, but yours definitely qualifies!

Good idea! I just ordered the parts - $3.37 USD before shipping, pretty cheap.

Oh, I'm sure it would be very fragile. I'm all about form over function, though!

V-LV-26A EDIT: Now built with real bricks, check page 2! I saw Asya & Bobby Otters's fantastic Daytona yesterday and had to try building a bike for myself. I decided on a roadster of sorts. It's not any one make or model in particular because I'm really not familiar with motorcycles, but it was a fun build - err, CAD! The clip with the 1x1 round used for a front headlight is wedged in between the two round clips and held in place by the pressure between the two. Thanks again, Asya & Bobby Otters, for the inspiration for this one! Hope you guys like it.

Your design is absolutely fantastic! I love small, low-parts builds like this, and yours captures the shape so well. Any plans for a roadster of some sort?

Thanks! No idea on the cost. It's 206 pieces in common colors, mostly common parts. If you went through Bricklink, I'd estimate maybe $25 or so?

V-LV-24B Hello! This will be my first formal MOC post as the only other thing I've posted was a series of SNOT exercises. Well, what good are those if you don't put 'em to use? This is a (mostly) 6-wide pickup truck in classic red, of course. I'd like to say I had some sort of intent with this, but I really had no direction at all. In fact, it started as a car! I'm very happy with how it turned out, though, especially the bed. Front view! Here's the rear, featuring that bed I mentioned. Originally, this didn't have any of the "raised" portions such as that 1x1 by the cab or the three tiles by the gate, but they were added for stability once I realized the assembly would fall apart if you looked at it hard enough without them. In fact, without that raised 1x1 by the cab, the entire bed would have been held to the cab by one lonely plate. The underside. Not very pretty, I'll admit. The hinge you see is only there because it has hollow studs and I needed some support for that bracket. The sides of the bed are 1x8 tiles held in place by 1x1 technic bricks with half pins. Why not use the 1x1 brick with 2 studs on the sides, you ask? Because I'm using an outdated CAD program that doesn't have that part. Also, the top one has to be a technic brick so the 1x4 tile will stay in place. The front, taken apart. The biggest downside to this design is that it's rather large. Observe as it towers over these pitiful 80's and 90's town cars! It probably works fine with the current City scale, though. Thanks for viewing!

Thanks! As I said, that's one of my most recent builds so it's really in "first draft" stage - compared to the others, it's pretty sloppy and unrefined. I took your idea also cleaned up the bottom-right a lot more by rearranging the bottom section and I'm much happier with it now. It's much cleaner, I think: Thanks for your advice and the link to the article, I'll go ahead and view that as well.

Hello! As mentioned in my introduction thread, I'm just now getting back into LEGO after a long hiatus and am working in CAD as I don't really own any physical bricks - only 3 sets at the moment. I've recently been fascinated by the way bricks go together. Their dimensions are so precise, it allows for some very creative SNOT work. This has led to me playing with a few concepts here. First off, this is a pretty rudimentary technique. 5 plates tall = 2 bricks wide, and you can turn a section sideways to "frame" a 1x2 brick. Like I said, this is pretty basic, but I'm posting it for reference. Okay, but I wanted to use this as decoration in a pillar, but the problem is there's that ugly technic brick with the half pin showing on the side, so I came up with a different way to hold it all together. The four side panels are two pieces, with one held in place by a headlight brick. The other one is held in place by the form of the first and is not actually connected by studs anywhere. Put together, the whole unit is actually very solid. Here it is built into a pillar: Here's another application of the general technique. Potential castle decor? Assembly: Part 2493, The 1x4x5 window frame, has an opening that's 8 stacked plates wide by 5 studs tall. This allows enough space to use it to house a bank of windows, composed of two halves. The studs facing left and right keep the assembly from falling out of the frame, as long as there's something behind it as well. Application in the form of a mini-scale skyscraper: I was reading Classic-Space earlier today and there was a thread on fitting 45 degree slope bricks together without the gap. I went ahead and made this, which turned out to be much more difficult than I thought it was going to be. The goal was to build a 4x4 octagon into the wall with no gaps and only 1 brick depth. I wish it was cleaner, but I've tried a few designs now and this is still the best. I think I'll tackle it again in the future, though. This turned out to be good practice for 1/2 plate vertical offsets: Works as a window as well: Finally, there's no real practical application for this, but it was fun to build. This is mostly just practicing the nestled headlight bricks technique (is there an official name for this?), which is a favorite of mine. Anyways, thanks for viewing! Let me know if you found this interesting, useful, or incredibly boring!