Lego Tin Robot

Saw this yesterday, but got distracted by all the comments.

Anyway, isn’t it cute? By yo3l, more in his Flickr page.

My Modular City House

I decided some time back that I’ll have a new street with modernish and slightly shorter buildings (approx 25 bricks tall) unlike those modulars like Green Grocer. 

So the new City range of sets that I’ll be modularising will belong to that street, more of the new town area vs old town concept.  Another distinguishing feature is that the street lamp posts will be the modern type.  Continuing the new town street (1st was Pizza Corner), I’ve modularised the 8403 City House. 

So the official set looks like this:

And my version looks like this:

Features from the original set retained includes the roof, the porch (although redesigned to have front door porch as well as back porch), garden… well, pretty much most of the basics.  I tweaked the windows on 1st and 2nd floor to become bay windows so the house facade is not so flat, and also built in a little balcony on the rooftop.

But a first a little house tour from minifig perspective shall we? 🙂

Looking into the garden from the street…

Ooooh, is that someone sunbathing? For some voyeuristic fun…

Ha, ok, moving on to the house proper, step into the doorway and we see… hmm, just a shelf and a place to eat…

But turn to your left, and you spot the latest 52 inch hi-def, 3D TV… ahhhh…

So the kitchen is fairly compact, just a sink, stove and a bar counter.

And from the bottom we can just make out the back door that leads to the back porch. Notice that in this pic I switched the location of the fence and stairs from the side. The fence has been purposely built for the entrance/stairs to be easily switchable from the side to the back in case future neighbours come into the neighbourhood and the garden has to be either demolished or moved to the back of the house.

Ok, 1st floor almost done, let’s head back into the house (yeah, still no tiles for floor tiling but found some floor mats so dirt dun get trampled into the house 🙂 ):

On the 2nd floor, really not much going on so just a bed, lamp and a computer table:

The 3rd floor has a small balcony for evening drinks and to enjoy the breeze. Interiors not furnished, or not exactly anyway, I’m using it to store extra sofa and lamp – you’ll see in overhead shots later. 😛

 

Ok, so that concludes the house tour. Hope you liked it!

Not the end of course, I took the mandatory front, back, side, and overhead shots:

And all together now…

And the front & back shots:

I’ve designed the floors so that they can be stacked front-to-back and to be a 2 storey house as well (just for fun!):

And my current modern street looks like this:

Or this:

Hope you like my street. 🙂

To see my other modular creations, click here:  🙂

• Modular Corner Cinema
• Modular Pizza Corner
• Modular Town Hall
• Modular White Building

So Many New MOCs I Like..

I hate it when I get a backlog of stuff that I really want to post, and unfortunately with so many I really have no time to comment on what I like about each MOC individually.  As usual, do click on the links to their Flickr sites for more pics and close-ups.

Two are entries for the FBTB MOC Madness 2010 Tournament (I’ve been looking at the entries and there are some really cool ships), one vignette that has all 16 of the Series 2 Minifigs, a new stained glass SNOT technique (she has been developing the technique for a while), an eerie castle scene, a war scene, a modified TRU truck (I do like this size a lot more than the original), a steam punk and an abandoned museum.  Really quite a varied offering and I hope there’s something for everyone here. 🙂

Broken Regret by Nannan Z

The Subacorr by Octopunk

 Life’s a Beach by I Scream Clone

Cheese Slope Patterns by eilonwy77

The Dead Can’t Speak by yoshix

Airborne in Normandy by PigletCiamek

ISUZU Toysrus truck by andybear@hk

Medium Steam Airship Mk. LVI By Pain Parade

Museum at night by SlyOwl

 

My Modular Pizza Corner

Continuing my ‘modularisation’ of official City sets, I worked on 7641 City Corner so that my Legolings can finally get some pizza.  So here it is, and hope you like it too.

Completed this a while back, but haven’t had time to sit down and edit the photos until now. Didn’t have time to play and come up with some story, so just pics with some fun shots further down.

1st floor: Has some bar tables, a lovers seat, and the all important kitchen. Back of the pizzeria has garbage bin and is where the pizza delivery biker boy picks up his next order from. Stairs out on the left leads to the 2nd floor…

2nd floor: Not much going on, just a table and a small toilet under the stairs and a. Actually I added some display shelf with vase etc but am too lazy to re-take interior pics. Update: Photo added below

3rd floor: Alfresco dining! Also added a small shelf for the service staff to put water n cutlery, but again… the lazy bug is strong. 😛 Update: Photo added below

The front, back and sides

Top Views

Fun shots and interiors – Views you would see if you were minifig sized… or able to climb onto ceilings (!)…

Pavement view:

While standing at the entrance…

View of kitchen, that comes with oven (pizza baking inside), stove, sink (but missing one corner oops), cupboard above (for putting cups) and a service counter with flip top.

Pizza delivery boy… pizza included of course (just realised I’d also modified the bike to include pizza displays on the sides, but forgot to take pics! Oops!)

2nd floor just has one lonely customer… like I mentioned earlier, I added a shelf and some small decors post-photo shoot. So it doesn’t look as empty as it does in this pic any more.

Update: Photo added to show the shelf I added

3rd floor of pizzeria features alfresco rooftop dining and looks a lot busier:

Update: Photo added to show the service table for cups, etc

Close-up of 1st floor awnings – Yup, in case you haven’t guess, the red and black awning is the last minute addition that caused me to re-shoot almost all of the exterior pics. I do like it very much tho, cos it adds a lot of the ‘pizzeria’ feel to this shop.

Original version before I thought of doing the awnings – I took a pic next to the box to show the modifications from the original set. As usual I’d kept elements of the original set since the intent is really to have a modular version of the original TLG version.  As you can see, loads of similarities which is also one of the reasons why I like this MOC so much. It’s instantly recognisable as the Pizza Store from the City Corner, but in a modular form. Plus I took a relatively short time to do this up…  

Bonus shot – I brought my pizzeria to a local meet-up and ‘Chong Cheng’ was very kind to bring along some of his lovely ladies to pose as pizzeria waitresses (and to sleaze up the place, haha).

Stuff I don’t Like so much… Well… I thought of re-doing the stairs on the 2nd floor (which meant tearing up everything and re-building basically) so that the 2nd floor is more spacious.  I really need tiles, and not just for the floor tiling and pavement which would really enhance the look of the MOC I think.  Would also have been fun to experiment with different colored awnings but as it is I had just enough 1×4 tiles in red and black to do the awning but then the overall building looks kinda ‘dark’ now… not nearly as cheerful as I would like it to be.

My other modular creations: Links to my other modular creations

• Modular Corner Cinema
• Modular Town Hall
• Modular White Building

A Car, a Dragon & a Recording Studio

Least you think I’m a really hungry gal at night (what with burgers, ham & spam…), here are some non-food related MOCs I like to end the day… a car, a dragon and a recording studio (which would be so perfect for the pop star in minifig series 2 I think).

1. Lego Herbie by bricksonwheels

2.  Vayland Dragon000 by Ahava516

3. Recording Studio by Flandcrest Enterprises

I Want A Corellian Cheeseburger

A Corellian Cheeseburger? In the words of Angus MacLane (yeah, the designer of CubeDudes), it’s a “YT-1300c Light Freighter modified to smuggle bounties in its meaty, cheesy cargo hold”.  Errr…. it’s Star Wars lingo I think, (yeah I don’t understand) but the burger is so cute huh? 🙂  

It’s his entry for the FBTB MOC Madness 2010 Building Tournament btw. 

How Ham is Made

I was about to call it a night when I saw this and just had to blog it… by Bladewood