So if you were planning to omit your side wall, or make one out of all the colors you won’t be needing for the front and back walls, make sure that at least the edge of the side wall that juts out is made of a color that fits with the rest of the building. In some cases, part of your side wall will be visible. Keep the variation in mind, because of your side wall. This might result in something like this: As long as you leave the Technic bricks in the right position for connecting, you’re free to place your front and back wall at will. If you put a number of CCMS buildings in a row, this method of alighnment will give you the best result. If you look at a real-life (old) street, you will see that not all buildings align in a perfectly straight line: some jut out a bit, others fall a little further back. Of course you can make the full building larger by attaching straight buildings forming a continuous whole at either side, but the corner module must be 32 x 32: Therefore, your baseplate will always have to be 32 x 32 studs. In the case of a corner building, you’re dealing with two connecting points at a 90 degree angle of each other. That way the Technic bricks with hole will always align and allow for the buildings to be attached to one another through the use of Technic pins. Whether your building is 8 studs wide or 64 studs wide, the sizes in depth are always the same. The connection points, pavement, walls etc. The width is variable with straight buildings, always being a multiple of 8 studs. Generally speaking, every baseplate is 32 studs deep. There’s basically two types of building in this standard. I will describe the CCMS as applied in Lego’s sets and as applied by many fans. An ideal standard for combining buildings is the so-called Café Corner Modular Standard (or CCMS).īut if you don’t own a Cafe Corner, Green Grocer, etc., how do you know what rules to follow to make your building fit in with the rest? We regularly see each other at meetings and bring along a construction or two of our own. Link to Eurobricks discussion: Link (thanks to Rick & Rapseflaps!) Link to Aliencat’s original article: Link (thanks Aliencat!) Hope you enjoy and find it as useful as I did. So Aliencat’s guide comes in useful to understand the basics behind creating more sets. Since there is only one official modular set a year, what’s a gal to do but to create more herself? I love city sets to build up my town (kinda like playing Sim City come to think of it), but only the modular series offers the challenge and surprises (new techniques!) that makes building those sets such a joy. The modular series is probably one of the factors that made me an AFOL. It’s a how-to guide to modular buildings by Aliencat, translated by Rapseflaps from Eurobricks. To “commemorate” the occasion, I’ve re-blogged a great article I came across awhile back. I think I’ll hit 2,000 page views tomorrow (though I think the World Cup may have an impact on AFOLs who surf the net, haha).
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