The final part of the build is the top floor and the roof which is the most modern looking part of the building.
The other side looks quite similar.
Before the roof is added, the can peek above and see that yes the top floor is currently empty as I have not totally figured out what I want to put in it. until then it shall remain empty but I am thinking of some dining area with kitchen.
Here is a side shot with the roof added.
The roof has those skylight, a service door and 2 central air conditioning compressors.
Overall I am very pleased with the outcome of this. The build each floor is slightly taller than the other modulars but not overly so. I think it fits well and would probably look quite nice next to the Fire Brigade.
At over 4000 pieces, it is really quite heavy and has a pretty solid feel overall. After this project is over, I am going to take a breather in terms of MOCs. One is to preserve my wallet but secondly I want to make something quite unique on my own next round. Hopefully I can save enough to build a modular MOC once each year.
Right now we are entering the Christmas season, so now it is time for me to focus on rebuilding my Christmas scene adding in the newer sets that I bought to add to my current Christmas/Seasonal sets. Stay tuned for that.
Welcome back to another installment of me building my very own Vintage Shop building. The floor has a simple colour pattern based on dark red and black.
On this floor, it houses a quaint looking room. I tried to make it look like a room fit for an adventurer. An adventurer which I have not gotten yet. Will probably MOC a minifigure too but that will probably be after I am done with my Christmas diorama that will cover the month of December.
The part I think looks the coolest must be the book shelf.
Here is a close up of the desk which is not too shabby either.
Finally an adventurer cannot be one without his trophies.
With the exterior done up, it really looks quite nice.
For some odd reason, it looks very triangular when taken from this angle.
With that said, we are done with the 2nd floor. After that the 3rd floor and the roof is coming up next!
It has been a while but I have been busy, having to go for ICT and all. The MOC that I had started as mentioned in the previous post has been progressing pretty well.
So it was like below in the last update
I used the LDD building guide generated to guide me and it started off doing the lamp post and the interior of the ground floor.
Not bad an idea I must say as it allowed me to admire all the details at angles that I would no longer be able too once all the walls were up. Early on, I discovered that I actually overlooked ordering some parts and had to make do with substitutions until I go on another bricklink haul.
So no show stoppers and I completed the ground floor without any other major hiccups. I really love the colour scheme and the lamp post which I made myself :).
The back is quite plain as like most modular buildings
The counter of the shop has a cashier counter and next to it a magazine stand with shields hanging above it.
I am quite happy to finally use my Egyptian printed bricks to decorate the interior of the shop.
Other weapons are found around this shop and are hung neatly. That axe is a Fabuland one and looks pretty nice compared to the other usual axes found in the Castle or LoTR sets.
Finally here are some overhead shots of the vintage weapon shop. Onward to the next floor in the next article.
As you might remember, I started doing Bricklink orders to build a MOC that I had palgarised and modified.
Just last week I finally got all my orders through and received. All in all it took 7 orders to get all the parts required. Some parts were second hand as well and thankfully the condition of these parts were okay.
Of course I could not resist getting some other stuff along the way, especially accessory based items to modify my sets. As you can see, I also purchased the first of two Christmas seasonal sets that is not available in Singapore. Will probably do a review on it when I start building it in the month of December. In fact during that month, I will also be assembling my other Christmas sets as a run up to the Christmas holiday.
I also got some plants, trees and leaves. In fact I think i got more than enough of them for quite a while. Quite pleased with the varieties of plants, trees and leaves. Might want to do a separate article on the different kinds that I accumulated. Some are quite uncommon.
Anyways, onwards to the my latest project. I have started and here is a shot of the base with just the tiles for the base floor laid out.
Will update as and when I can on this project. It is really something I look forward to assembling. The terrible part is to go through all the 4 thousand plus parts. It is slow going and to add to that, using LDD's generated building guide means assembling somewhat in a non-systematic fashion (to the human, but probably entirely logical to the AI in the program). So onwards ho!
My very far and long term goal is to make another modular MOC which is based on something I saw on the internet and the MPH building in Singapore.
The back as always, is rather plain.
I have not figured out what the 3rd floor will have yet but will hopefully by the time I am done with it.
The 2nd floor is going to be like some Victorian adventurer's room.
The ground floor is going to be like a shop selling medieval weaponry.
I have to go to Bricklink to get my stuff so here below is my first major haul. Probably will have to do like 4-5 more at least to get them all...
Hopefully I can get all the stuff before mid of next year and start the build!
While looking at the Lego 6240 Kraken Attackin' from the Pirates lines, I realised that I had most of the pieces in there and could make my own creation (MOC) for the Imperial Soldiers so that they have a counterpart sort of to that set. Kind of like the Bricksbeard's Bounty has a counterpart in form the of the Imperial Flagship.
So after a few Lego pieces hunting trip over at Tampines Mall Toys Outpost, I came home and assembled my first revision. I had to iterate a few times as I somehow got some stuff wrong like getting too long a technic axle but that did not cost too much so it was fine. I also had to buy some stuff on Bricklink as well before this assembled creation you see below was in this final form.
As the pirates raft had a parrot, I got these dudes an owl.
The lookout is very similar to the pirates version except it is slightly lower. I also inserted some white pieces to match the colour scheme of the soldier's fort.
What I managed to squeeze in for them was a weapons rack so that they can be overarmed and ready to take on the pirates while on patrol.
The other thing is that instead of using all 2x2 round brick pieces I made the effort to use barrels to add slightly more detail which turned out quite well except the colour is a bit different. Well slight variation sometimes add a bit of an organic aspect of the raft.
I have another Bricklink purchase coming soon, so I hope to modify some other part of the soldier's fort to extend it. Meanwhile I really do love this MOC.
