MOCs

Victorian III goes 3-D

SoftaRae — Sun, 17 May 2009 21:25:40 +0000

The back half with full-length porch.

The house next door is one-story and will butt right up to this one - so, no windows on the first floor this side.

The two halves are on separate baseplates providing easy access to the interior.

Kitchen

Bath

Basement Kitchen

Basement bath.

Back door.

Sliding door.

Inside front - not fully furnished yet.

Basement expanding room divider.

Victorian III – just needs the roof now

SoftaRae — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:49:18 +0000

The left side was an experiment, not totally successful. I like the window and sliding doors, but not here.

This works much better. It's missing some pieces, which are on order, but it's getting pretty close.

Here's a closeup of the doorway.

And another, to show some more details. This is one of the places with missing pieces.

Victorian III is well under way

SoftaRae — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:55:00 +0000

I’ve had to use light bluish gray bricks in the door until I can get some more sand blue. The steps are only half done as well, also waiting on parts. There’s enough done to see what the color scheme is, though, and get an idea of how it’s going to look.

Needs sand blue bricks for door. (300 x 300)

Same photo, full size (760 x 760)

Victorian II nearing completion

SoftaRae — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:24:53 +0000

I still need some parts in order to finish this, but it’s close enough to tell what it’s going to look like. Left to do is the rest of the roof line, the decorations to flank the top windows, probably something different for the centerpiece section on the second story, and probably some sort of corner post or something on the left side of the second story “base.” And, of course, putting in the correct color parts for the few “filler” pieces that I’ve used.

I’ve included pictures of a couple of different ideas I had on the roof line. It started out looking a lot like Victorian I, with those corner pieces giving a heavy, notched look to the edge and concealing the color of the roof slopes. The “dotted line” just under the eaves was also notched. I tried a couple of ideas on that and ended up with a smooth angle by mounting the clips on a plate and mounting the plate with technic bricks and pins. All very smooth now

Front view, full size photo 384 x 625

Front view again, same photo, but thumbnail with full-size photo (1254 x 2112) for details underlying.

Side view, full size photo 348 x 552

Closeup of the roof line, unfinished but as it's going to be. Full size 486 x 542.

Original plan for roof line.

And just starting to experiment ...

Victorian II Second Story – update

SoftaRae — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 01:26:47 +0000

There are “filler” pieces in here of the wrong color at this point, while I wait for the actual ones to arrive. Like one of the corner inverted pieces which will be tan like the others but is dark red for now. Also, if I go with the center decoration more or less as is, I intend for the top arches to be tan as well. Those are on order too. I *may* come back and do something much different, though, in this area. More like the band of patterns just above. I like the way those turned out and may be able to do something like that for the centerpiece.

These shots were taken in the morning and I have already got most of the top section done now (evening), but it will be waiting for pieces too. I have run out of 1×2 reddish brown bricks!

Second story as of 2.6.09 am

Second story from side - full size: 768 x 576

Victorian II progress report

SoftaRae — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:19:23 +0000

View D Full Size 401 x 464

Victorian II 2.2.09 small but full size image 581 x 668

Thumbnail of same photo but with full size for details underlying 1936 x 2228

View C Medium w/full size 788 x 1092 underlying

View B - Full Size 410 x 680

Row Houses virtually finished …

SoftaRae — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:21:07 +0000

Row Houses

Row Houses Side Small Full Size 768 x 576

Full frontal and full size

Blue Full B Full Size

Tan Full and Full Size 347 x 462

Red Full and Full Size

Blue Closeup Full Size 768 x 576

Yellow Closeup Full Size 768 x 576

Yellow Closeup B Full Size 768 x 576

Tan Closeup Full Size 614 x 461

Red Closeup Full Size 768 x 576

Red Closeup B Full Size 614 x 461

Closeup of Cornice Full Size 768 x 506

Dark Side View Full Size 768 x 576

Dark Side View B Full Size 768 x 576

Row houses almost done, waiting on parts …

SoftaRae — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:53:42 +0000

I just need a few more parts to finish these.

I may add a fifth house on the left side, rather different from the other four, with a fenced side yard. There’s something like that in the inspiration photo, and I haven’t tired of trying new color combinations yet on these

Also, I like the yellow/white house, but the light yellow bricks that
I really like don’t really stand out much. I tried, on the second
story, using *just* the light yellow bricks, but it looked too
plain next to the other houses. One other thing I could do
is use yellow bricks instead of white, or the yellow bricks
with grill. I tried a small section like that and it looked
pretty good, but I haven’t decided whether or not I want to change it over to that.

First two ...

Three and four ...

Tried tan shutters on the dark red house …

SoftaRae — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:46:55 +0000

Tan shutters on house four tried and rejected

This is a crummy late evening photo, and I kept it only because it shows that I tried using tan shutters and drain pipe and a dark red cornice on the dark red row house. And the tree in front of the window. All were rejected.

Work on Row Houses continues …

SoftaRae — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:57:14 +0000

As of the am, 2 are pretty far along

On the first one, the bottom window has been moved to the left one stud, to better balance the space around the added door light. The rain pipe is almost complete now, but one piece is still light gray while the rest are light bluish gray.

There's going to be room for gardens on the roof.

You can see pretty much what the second one will look like, even though it’s waiting on the rest of the yellow shutters and yellow pieces for the cornice. The white and tan ones are just there as placeholders.

One more view.

There are three of them by evening.

Another angle.

By evening there are three, and changes have been made on number two. The owl is gone. It didn’t really work, and the windows can go closer together without it. The lamp has been added as well. One more shutter arrived, but I’m still waiting on four more plus the missing pieces for the cornice. The third one has no shutters. Instead, a grillwork protects the ground floor window. The second story windows will be plain, and I *might* put a tan lion’s head there, like the light bluish gray one on the first house. Also, if I get enough yellow rain pipe pieces, I might put a yellow one on house two and move its white one to this third house.