The MODs are an entirely different process and as you can see I am what is referred to as a "messy builder":Īll my builds were done within LDD first and then I did the real build. Here's a hasty picture of a very rough looking bed and breakfast during initial assembly building from the digital file: Average time for my two MOC modulars was around 7-8 months from first digitally placed brick to final presentation on here but a lot of that is self-imposed breaks and waiting for pieces. I don’t like to rush to share it which is a really hard urge to fight. Every so often changing a few things here or there. Once its completely built with real bricks I like to sit on the design again. Once the walls start going up its a lot easier to see what can be done with the space and physical bricks and I often rework much of the interior and adding a lot of the final detail. It’s a little difficult to visualize the interior space of the small rooms on the digital programs (and the camera angle manipulation is a tad clunky), but this is where a lot of great changes happen. This is one of the drawbacks of designing digitally. Regardless of using the program a lot it still has its visual limitations and things can look very similar and sometimes even better in real life than the digital build or it might not look nearly as good as it did digitally.Īlong the way of building it with real bricks I end up changing a lot, especially on the inside. From here it can go smoothly or like my bed and breakfast I can find myself disappointed in the design from the digital build and end up reworking a large amount of the facade. If at the end of a few weeks I still like the design I’ll print out the parts list, go through all of my pieces and set aside what I have and order what I lack. I do this so that I’m not ‘too close’ to the project and can come back and see it with fresh eyes. Once the digital building is essentially ‘complete’ digitally (but far from the finished model I finally reveal) I’ll leave the digital build file alone for a couple of weeks only coming back to occasionally tinker with the design or tweak small things. The last two I’ve done were about a months worth of the digital work in this manner. I tend to only design when there is time (at night) and limit myself to roughly an hour or so at a time. Eventually something starts to work and move on to the floors and walls. I’ve spent hours on a design only to delete massive sections or scrap the whole build and start fresh. Sections, colors, build styles, just experimenting. Like I’ve seen many describe as their process I start with creating some various facade designs based on what might go well with the building’s theme. I come up with a loose idea of what the exterior and interior style will be, start conceptualizing a rough floor plan, what size footprint the building will have and vague facade ideas.įrom there I open up Lego Digital Designer and start laying down bricks. While I’ve only done two MOC modulars, so nothing close to number some of the builders here, I’ll share my process in any case which so far goes like this:įirst is the conceptual phase, simply brainstorming what type of buildings I would like to see in my imaginary town (as I don’t actually display in a layout). You’ve done a great job compiling a list of some of the best modular builders here (and fantastic use of the for the mention, I’m really honored you like my builds. This is going to be excellent and I can’t wait to hear how all of the great Eurobricks modular creators go about designing their fantastic works. But others, please feel free to share your knowledges and experiences, maybe I forgot to mention you or I just didn’t discover your beautiful buildings, and in this way I’ll discover Edited by LegoModularFan I know, that list is enormous, there are some who designed billions of buildings and some just one but they all absolutely deserve to be here! The people I mentioned here are personally my favorite MOCers (according to my taste). Would be extremely appreciated if you can share some of your knowledge 72, Green Hair, with a hat, kelvin, von Snottingham, Quin, Umland, builder, Barrett, Mette, Grguric, Dayes, Kolind, Lecturer, Cadarn, Dutchman, and Wrecked Creation, Your Pieces, Zubair, Q, Joppe Geers, Kessels, Consiglio, And The Bricks, A I know that several people before me created similar threads but here, there are some specific people from whom I would really like to learn how they design modulars or non-modular buildings, from where they get inspiration, how do they start to design and which techniques they use to create their incredible buildings - so I mention them here.
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