Brilliant Design Very Good Usage Off Bricks

Very nice layout and the additional add ons are a neat idea that I will explore when I the room to put it all together

Very nice layout and the additional add ons are a neat idea that I will explore when I the room to put it all together

You combined these sets well.

Nice idea! I'm getting the Emporium, the Pet Shop, and the Fire House soon.

you do have another option, you could make another little shop or a kiosk to put in the empty spot, or you could always make an alley

LOL!!!! It's called 'Artistic License' - as in MOC!!!

Why does it say Posh? It is clearly supposed to be Shop.

That'll work too! To reflect your excellent suggestion I have now added it to the above 'list of choices'. (There are of course numerous other build options - please don't now start listing them all!) :-) Good luck with your Fire House plans - you can see a very good example of what two joined together look like here: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=4172287

There is a 4th option... Extend one of the Inner CC modules... eg I am thinking about doing a 2-garaged Fire station, as well as making the fire station itself a little deeper (so as to house modern fire trucks). Interesting... do you make the truck fit the station or the station fit the trucks? Otherwise I was thinking of making the gap into an alley way for deliveries and somewhere for my Garbage truck to go (as well as rats and spider webs etc). It would look great with the greengrocer's fire escape in the alley. I have some other ideas, as well, but I haven't started blogging myself yet so I need to keep some thing up my sleeve! I like the clean look of building all the way to the edge of the road. Your work is great too though.

Thanks all for your kind comments. Eric - as always - generous with your praise! I have posted on your Lego Cities Group and would be honoured if you wished to use the pic. Just tell me what you need? Paul.

Dude, you have been busy! I have to say this is the best presentation I've seen of the modular Cafe Corner standard sets. Your mods are first rate and very well thought out. This is one of the best street scenes that has been posted here. A photo of this would make a great icon for our LEGO Cities group. We sorely need a picture of something like this. Regards, Eric.

Even though these are all sets, (but changed a bit) it's pretty. I don't have any road plates, except from the 2000 bridge construction set, and the 2000 fire station. I am also a city junkie myself, but, can't really make anything this beautiful due to my small collection of LEGO. :(

(At pic 2) Its Toby-Cat!

Nice work exile. The changes are great! - Nathan

Nice work exile. The changes are great! - Nathan

Agreed - but that was actually the point! :-) My intention here is only to demonstrate one solution to the '12 stud gap' created building Lego Modular Sets (not MOC's) when Corner sets are incorporated and joined directly to the Lego Road plates. Glad you liked it!

Thanks for the comments - I like how Joerg dealt with the problem - Parking bays - very inventive! Plus his work is excellent!! This lay-out was intended only to demonstrate how to fill in the gaps created if only Lego Modular buildings were used and if you wanted to build right up to the road edge. :-)

what you did is great! you went trough a lot of work to achieve this, i can t quite make up the observations you made, perhaps a langage problem from my part[ i m french speaking] or the fact that i don t own any corner style building[i buy x2 each kit for creativity freedom and they re pretty expensive!]but, from my observations [i ve spent quite some time studying all moc pages creations, especially city, my girlfriend can testify!] and i think you better check joerg s work before going any further. you can also check cybercity s service garage v-3 s last pics, you will find that space between buildings have to be wide, to allow a good view, and you ll need the street parkings to do so, just hope to save you time and efforts here, hope you comment on it further on my journal.