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I see your point, but it was never meant to be a traditional sunroof - which would naturally be just the middle part of the roof. This is more like a panoramic glass roof, which makes up a much bigger part of the roof itself. Edit: Oh, and I'm glad you like the new ones :)

While I like LEGO trains and own a fair few of them, I don't really know all that much about real trains and therefore don't really comment a lot in this part of the forum. But this is just so impressive that it's impossible to ignore it. Your station is lovely to look at and has very appealing architectural features, a wonderfully detailed interior, and even a great train (albeit an evil one) to go along with it. As eurotrash said: It's obvious how much thought must have gone into creating all this. I'm truly impressed. Well done!

Thanks again, guys! Much appreciated. Those are custom printed tiles from TASTER BRICKS, a German BrickLink seller. Top notch quality - they do both Euros and dollars. Thank you! And you made me realise that I've used the wrong name for one of the cars in this thread - it should be Cobalt Speedster, not Cruiser. The Cruiser name was already taken by the Cowgirl Cruiser :) I'll fix that.

Thanks again for your kind words! It's always fun when the work you do is appreciated. I promised to post a few more cars, and I've finished two of the six missing ones. Here they are! 9) Whizz Midget. I have a tendency to base my cars on the prefabricated vehicle bases, but in this case I wanted to make something short and stubby, so I went with regular plates. It turned out quite nicely, I think, especially the rear end with central twin pipes. As you may know, one of the aspects of MOCing that I find most fun is trying to come up with minifig combos that go well with the builds. On this one, I wanted to find something that would match the colours of the car, and I had a couple of Green Army Men torsos that I didn't use. They make surprisingly nice down vests :) 10) Wolverine SS. My cars are a colourful bunch, and I like experimenting with rarer colours. I enjoy the challenge I get from the limited parts selection. This time, it's dark orange - and with some black thrown in for good measure (and because dark orange is rare) it ended up getting the colour scheme of a wolverine, hence the name :) The owner is, naturally, sporting a suit jacket to match his car. As soon as I'd decided on the name I started looking for a way to incorporate the Wolverine claws into the design - and came up with a solution that looks pretty slick. While it would have worked the way it was, too, I must admit I have shaved a millimeter off the bottom of the attachment bar so it would look better on there. So, that's two more - still four to come, but I'm missing some pieces because of a veeery slow BrickLink seller. Hopefully they'll be done in a week or two...

There it is! I was expecting you to post it here after I saw it on Flickr - and I'll repeat some of my praise here: It's a masterpiece, probably the best I've ever seen from you. Something so huge and still so well-designed is rare to see, and it's beautiful, both on the outside and on the inside. There are some great examples of creative parts usage here, like the round 2x2 grille brick as tablecloth, and some superb details, like the subway entrance. I love the mime artist on the pavement as well. And the car! All in all a fantastic MOC, well worth front-paging. Hopefully, this'll be on display somewhere at some point so I can see it up close. Well done, snaillad.

I agree with the others - this is one of the best fire trucks I've seen. It manages to look quite realistic, while still adhering to the style of the official LEGO sets. Well done!

Some truly spectacular entries, and as always, close to impossible to choose only five. I tried to narrow it down even more, so I could give double points to my favourite entry, but I just couldn't do it! So here are my five points, split five-ways...: 3. HundredHander - 1 18. Priovit70 - 1 21. Kristel - 1 22. sonicstarlight - 1 23. oo7 - 1 Well done to everyone!

One or two winter village stations seem to turn up every year, and this one is one of the best I've seen. I really like the way you've used those ornamented arch pieces, and the clockwork is another inspired detail. A great entry - good luck!

You are expanding from niche to niche here - and mastering them all. Very well done from a very skilled car builder. That use of the binoculars is incredibly clever!

Many of the entries this year 'break the mold' for how the Winter Village sets normally look, and while that might be a sign of creativity, I really like the ones that stick to the 'regular' setup - and this one fits right in there, it could easily be an official set. The fountain is a particularly nice feature. Well done!

There's a lot to like here, but my favourite detail is definitely the chopped wood. Brilliant!

I quite like these! Some of the colouring is a tiny bit rough for my taste, but I agree with Farnheim about the details, there are some very, very nice ones in there. The spoilers and diffusors look good, and I like the headrest. Might need to nick that idea :)

That does indeed look like a very nice collection with some great sets in very good condition. Yes, they did. I had that idea book, and recently bought an unused sticker sheet to use in MOCs. There are some very handy ones on it. Let me know if you're very eager to part with it :)

While I don't see how this complies with the rule of being "similar in style and size to the previous official TLG releases," you have my utmost admiration for coming up with something so original! It's also a very impressive built with the SNOTwork you've done, and your use of printed bricks is just about perfect. I also love the one winter-y detail you have, the refrigerator - that's a funny idea well executed - and there are some amazing details in there, like the water pipe, the little table, and the fan. Good job :)

I like this! I think the bus could maybe have been improved a little bit, but the buildings are really very nicely done, and would go well together with the official sets - I especially like the interior of the station. Also, as others have said: The stickers are well made and add something special to the whole MOC.

A very nice entry very well presented - with crisp, clean photography. Well done!

As you know, I love most of your stuff, and this is definitely no exception. The colours you've chosen are perfect for the architectural style, and your use of curved elements, slopes and bars is one of the things that really make this pop. Another thing i really like about it is that it's so unusual - I don't think I've seen any MOCs that look like it. The addition of a (working) elevator is something that we're used to seeing from you, but it's just as impressive every time. And the cross-sections really remind me of your early Castlometry stuff, which is still among the most amazing LEGO stuff I've seen. Well done!

I've posted some (quite a few) comments on Flickr - but I need to repeat some here: This is one of the best modular buildings I've seen - I love how you've done the rounded shape, and it's great that you've been able to do a (more than) proper interior even with that shaping going on. The tower is fantastic! The exterior details are superb, and the interior is amazing, all of it. There's nothing I don't like here. Even the subtle details like the grille bricks used alternately with regular ones, to create texture on the walls, are great. Very, very well done!

Again, thanks :) If you like the Cowgirl Cruiser - I suppose you've seen my other updated classics as well - you'll like the next ones that are coming up! I totally agree with you on the windshield. We've got many more to choose from in four-wide - it would be great to see some improvements in six-wide as well. Thank you! It's this one, from the Atlantis line.

Again, I'm not a native English speaker, but isn't there a significant difference between Legos and say, Toyotas or Cokes, other brand names that have been brought up in this thread? There is in my language. Anyone would call one singular item "a Toyota" or "a Coke". But would you call a singular LEGO item "a Lego?". Wouldn't that be "a Lego piece" or "a Lego brick"? You wouldn't say "a Toyota car" - unless it was to somebody who was completely unfamiliar with what a Toyota actually is... When I grew up, we would refer to the addictive plastic as "the lego" or "my lego". We would probably not capitalise the first letter, and certainly not all of them. But we would not call them "legos" either - it sounds strange to me, and it was a term I'd never heard about before I joined this site.

I honestly don't understand where the need to be right comes from. You are obviously completely entitled to refer to LEGO bricks as Legos as much as you like, but you must be aware that on this forum it is generally disliked to do so, and that's not likely to change no matter how much you try to convince the majority of the forum members (more than 30,000 and counting) that they're wrong...

Sounds like a nice project. None of the parts are impossible to come by, but this one might be your biggest challenge - it has been released in red only in one set, from 2005, and is only available from a single BrickLink seller in new condition. If you're willing to buy a used part, you have 21 more sellers to choose from. Apart from that, you shouldn't have any big problems building a red truck. The trailer of 7848 is already white, so the only thing you'd need to do is change the colour of the roof, which will also be easy. Good luck!

Thank you for your nice comments! It's always good to get feedback on stuff, and as usual, it's so much fun to hear how you pick different favourites. I agree - it is royal, after all! As I mentioned, I bought the chrome parts from Auri at Chrome Block City, but there were a couple of elements that I needed that he didn't have - so he actually chromed some just for me. Great service - and they arrived on the morning when I was driving to the event in Oslo. Perfect timing! Thank you! I know the Six'n'Twelve is an acquired taste. But at least it's different :) Maybe it is - that square snout is very blocky. But then again, I didn't go for beauty when I built it - it's supposed to look aggressive and brutish. Yes, they are. I'm eagerly awaiting double cheese slopes in transparent colours... On Flickr, somebody suggested that I should build the sunroof in trans-black, to go with the windows, and I'll probably end up doing that. I think that will possibly look better.

I agree with the others - there are some great details here. The exterior is very nice; the stonework is great, the roof is well built, and that fence looks like something that LEGO would easily add to a set. But the interior is even better, and the idea is perhaps the best thing about it. There should be a school in the winter village. Well done!

Hello, honourable Eurobrickers! Warning: Picture-heavy topic... It's been a while since I've posted any new content on the forum. It's not like I haven't been building at all since August, but I've been to a few events, for the first time in my life, and I was lucky enough to be invited to contribute to Megan Rothrock's LEGO Adventure Book. It's all really been an adventure over the past six months or so. Anyway - I haven't been able to photograph my latest MOCs and get them online until now. They've been uploaded to my Flickr in the last week, so some of you may have seen them there. But here they are all together in a single topic :) After having built four, eight, five, eight, fifteen, and sixteen cars earlier (yes, I still have them all, and let me tell you, 56 cars take up a lot of room), I have more or less found the niche that I'm comfortable building in, for now anyway. My builds now are primarily concentrated in two different 'themes': The hot rods/vintage cars and the modern interpretations of classic City sets. I try to incorporate a rear licence plate in all my builds. It's not always possible, but if I can find a way to cram it in there, I will. I also generally try to give the cars rear-view mirrors and indicator lamps. And all the stickers are official LEGO - some of them may be cut, but they're all from original sets. Before I start, here's my new setup for photographing MOCs. I've been planning to get a proper lightbox for a while, and this is how it all currently looks when operational: Very happy with the results I've got so far, and they will get even better when I start experimenting with longer exposures, now that I've got a remote for my camera. Oh well. Here we go! 1) Cowgirl Cruiser. I'll start with a modernised version of the classic set #6627. This is part of my pet project, Updating the Classics. The original set is one of my favourites among the oldest sets I've got, and I knew I needed to use that new cowgirl hat/hairpiece for the modern interpretation. Two different generations meet! 2) Speedy Seven. A small British sports car that ended up reminding me a bit of the Lotus Seven. So I gave it a colour scheme that seemed to fit with that idea. I don't know what all those monkeys are doing there, but they may have been attracted by the sweater. Although Seven-esque, the car is beefier and bigger when compared to the minifig. The front end is held together by using some 1x1 plates with light clip - it's a remarkably sturdy solution: 3) Super Square. This next one is a result of wanting to try my hand at building a sand blue car - and then I needed to make do without doors or panel elements. So I ended up with an open-sided solution that I admit is a bit unusual. Naturally, the owner has a sand blue shirt to match. The front end would probably be very unpopular among modern car legislators, with the pedestrian impact rules we have today - but from my point of view, the only thing that mattered was that it looked aggressive. And it does. The roof comes off, so it can be used as a convertible... ...but the design can hardly be described as 'handsome' in any case, and to remove the roof doesn't do it any favours. 4) The State Limo. Morty, leader of the Norwegian LUG Brikkelauget, asked me if I would do him a favour and build a limousine to go with his fantastic minifig-scale version of the Norwegian Royal Palace in Oslo. This was the first version I put together in MLCad. We then decided that it was a bit too narrow to fit with the massive palace. I still ilked the design, and it's pretty much exactly what I think a L@go limousine should look like, so I built it anyway. Here's a little story to go with it: The movie star and her boyfriend, chased by the paparazzi. Nothing new there. 5) Royal Ride. So this is what I ended up with instead of the previous one. It's a much more modern type of car, and something I'd never tried my hand at before. I went for a sort of edgy Cadillac style mixed with a Rolls Royce-style grille, and I'm reasonably happy with how it ended up. I was afraid it would end up not being sturdy enough, but it's actually rock solid. Yes, I have cut the bottom tap off the plume to make it fit into the jumper plate. That's not the only parts butchering I've done this time, I'll get back to that. I painted the plume with a silver marker, but the rest of the chromed parts are from Chrome Block City (recommended). I actually built two of these, because we invited the Norwegian Crown Prince and Princess to the event (50 years of LEGO Norway), and intended to give one away if they showed up, but they couldn't make it. So I've kept them both. They'll be in Copenhagen for LEGO World, on display along with Morty's palace, and by then they'll be equipped with proper Norwegian royal licence plates - 'A-1' and 'A-2' - instead of the dollar bills they have now. Here they are, HRH Crown Prince Haakon of Norway and his wife, HRH Crown Princess Mette-Marit, waving to a group of affectionate Norwegians. And at least one foreigner. 6) The Vintage Truck. Also built on request - birgburg wanted a car that she could use in her fabulous Klosshavn diorama at the Oslo event. I came up with this: I'm quite happy with the colour design on this. The truck is also asymmetrical; it's got an exhaust pipe on the right-hand side and a step for easier access to the driver's seat on the left-hand side. And about those strange doors: They're a result of my mad Photoshop skillz :) - they were meant to be 1x3x2 doors, but the BrickLink seller I ordered them from sent me the wrong parts, and I had to use two 1x3x1 doors for the photosession. They have since then been replaced. The owner is probably involved in some sort of activity that we weren't supposed to know about... 7) Cobalt Speedster. (Accidentally mis-named "Cobalt Cruiser" when I started this topic.) A low-slung roadster built mainly to find out just how long the front of the car would actually get if I used those long slopes. The answer is: Very long. I know there would have to be a twelve-cylinder engine underneath such a long bonnet, so I added some chrome bits and twelve minifig hands to mimic small exhaust pipes. The owner has an affection for navy-style clothing... and, whaddyaknow, he plays tennis. 8) Six'n'Twelve. Another monster roadster with twelve cylinders - but with a definite twist to it. I've always had a thing for six-wheeled cars - the Panther Six, the Covini CW6, the old Tyrrell P34 F1 car, Captain Nemo's car from The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen... and they all have four wheels up front. So, I thought, why not build one? I've realised it will probably look prettier without the front pair, with a long overhang, but the six wheels make it different. And I was told that it would go well along with Jon Hall's sky-fi planes, which is probably true, it's got a bit of the same design going on. The owner relaxes with a cup of something while caressing her beloved roadster. And before you ask me about that mudguard: Yes, I did. And that's about it! "Hey, wait a minute!" I can hear you scream. "That's just eight. He promised us fourteen! Can't he count? Where are the other six?" The parts are trickling in as we speak, and I'll be updating this post when they're ready. That's another very varied batch: - The Whizz Midget, a little speedster - The Sensor GTR, a six-wide supercar - The Étoile d'Élégance, a neo-classic bling luxury coupé - The Wolverine SS, a vintage sports car ...and two more modern interpretations of classic sets - which I think you will like. I do, a lot :) Also, there's another, bigger project in the pipeline. But that's a secret for now... Comments and criticism is, as always, welcome, and there are more pictures in my Cars and Trucks and vans photosets on Flickr. Thanks for looking! To be continued...