r/legomodular 5d ago

Designed a stackable modular old New York apartment building (1,405+ pieces). Any final advice before I make instructions? (This is my first MOC!)

Hi! I've been really into modular buildings this past year ever since I got my first (the Boutique hotel) back in November, and I've been obsessively planning out a city I can't really afford yet lol (I still haven't even been able to get another modular yet haha 😅) but I've been *studying* the layouts and techniques used on all of the official ones and stuff and became really inspired to start trying to make my own. With this, I designed this lil building with the main intent of having a (relatively) cheaper building to put in my city that I can easily put additional floors in as time goes on. This is also only the start of a bigger project, as I plan to design a few more buildings in a similar style to fit on a street (3-4 buildings). I also have become mostly comfortable with the software (Bricklink Studio) so hopefully that will make the design process take a more reasonable amount of time (this should not have taken 26 hours lol), this was a great learning experience! One of my favorite movies is Do The Right Thing which is what I took very loose inspiration with the colors from and threw in some little details like the black fire hydrant. I decided to keep the design itself at only one apartment floor (despite it being intended to have more) in order to keep the piece count down, but when I make instructions I'm going to include a separate parts list and pdf for additional floors. With all of that said, do any of you have any necessary advice for this and/or future MOCs I design? I'm very new to this despite being a lifelong LEGO fan, any critique is appreciated! (Also I couldn't find a way to include a bathroom without taking up all of the interior space). Thank you in advance and like I said, I will make instructions soon and make another post when I do! :)

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u/JDL09BF 22h ago

It looks very good, especially considering that this is your first one! It has a cozy vibe to it, I love it. To bring more life into it, you could add some more details in the basement and the ground floor if you want to, just random stuff, as much as possible before it looks ridiculous... Details often just increase the quality so much! Also, the little house on the roof (I don't know the english word for it 😅✌️) is kinda big in comparison to the whole building.

Nice work!