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Origami Modular, 60° at the tip (Maria Sinayskaya)
squares, 12, 4 units, no glue
Folded in between game drives in Kruger Park:)
I always wanted to try making a modular using 1x2 plates in mixed colours, but have never had enough plates in the right colours to do a full size modular building. Then I saw the LEGO Ideas contest to celebrate 90 years of TLG and the idea formed to try and do a midi-scale version (somewhere between minifigure and micro scale). The base for this build is 8x16 studs, so it is one-quarter of the baseplate used for a standard 16-stud wide modular building.
It is modular as the floors come apart. However, the way I did the windows for this version means that it's not so pretty on the inside.
I would love to do a row of townhouses like this in different colours. Once I can accumulate a few more plates!
PS: Sarah Beyer (@betweenbrickwalls) has mastered the use of mixed plates in her gorgeous buildings, but I want to also do a shout out to Jan M. (@wooootles) whose “Avenue Residences” is one of the first buildings that I recall that used this technique (and which is still one of my all time favourite builds).
Modular Origami Star (Maria Sinayskaya)
squares, 6 units, no glue
Folded from a sheet of crumpled (VOG) paper glued to a sheet of Japanese origami foil.
My latest experiment in something other than standard modular buildings. The alley features a dead end, some boxes and a dumpster.
Many builders have made one of these, which is no surprise considering it's great realism. I originally wanted to make one of these in brown with SR lettering, like britishbricks did, but I ran out of brown brackets. However, I found I had enough pieces scattered around to do one in dark grey, so I did. Due to a shortage of parts I simplified the chassis design down, but the body is the same.
I also have always wanted to make a wagon with cable drums, and using the barrel technique from the Detective's office modular building water tower, I made a couple that fit just right, then secured them down with some of the handy rope pieces, which worked perfectly with the buffers.
Thanks Scot for sharing your awesome design with us!
Modular Origami Stars (Maria Sinayskaya)
squares, 6 units, no glue
4 different sizes, all stars are folded with 5 cm squares
Origami Modulars (Maria Sinayskaya)
squares, 4 units, no glue
The unit on the right is 60° and the unit on the left turned out to be 60-something upon closer inspection:) Oh well.
A small storage/garage for the city. The ground floor of the green building was inspired by another one that I found around, but I can't find the photo or the author to sign the "credits".
Something simple to "cut" with the usual modular buildings design.
60° Origami Modular (Maria Sinayskaya)
rectangles (1:2), 4 units, no glue
Some other variations of this unit.
I've refined the modular building quite a lot. The corner pieces are solid to provide bracing but all others components are totally modular.
I wish I could do this in real bricks (with some variety added, of course). It would mean having to order a couple thousand 1x1 plates and headlight bricks, though.
Modular Origami Stars (Maria Sinayskaya)
The bigger stars are folded from double bronze rectangles (2:sqrt3) and the smaller one from bronze (1:sqrt3). Similar designs to the previous ones, with more interesting reverse sides.
6 units for each, no glue
Kami paper in Candy by Peter Keller.
Here are some other folds made with paper from the same pack:
www.flickr.com/photos/goorigami/25706899784
www.flickr.com/photos/goorigami/26486351175
www.flickr.com/photos/goorigami/25660678671
www.flickr.com/photos/goorigami/26452852532
I have to say, it's a great idea to keep the number of colors per pack limited to just 5 or 6. This way you have a nice palette with colors that work together and you have enough sheets of each color per pack. Ideal for modular origami!
60° Origami Modulars (Maria Sinayskaya)
rectangles (3:4), double bronze, 12 units, no glue
Other rectangles are also possible with this folding sequence.
Well, town is a strong word for it. Small street would be abetter description. So, this is my current project, a modular road. Ignore the random citizens in the actual road bit, they belong to the other side which isn't quite finished yet, due to a severe lack of parts.
So, we've currently got (on this side at least) a modded pet shop, the florist, which is still a work in progress, and the detectives office.
When I first started this, the pavement (or 'sidewalk' for the Americans), spanned the entirety of the studded part of the baseplates. However, in a moment of inspiration, I decided to fill the sides of the road with raised flower beds (flowers yet to be added). Quite a nice solution really.
So, that's it for now. At some point I'll upload a picture of the horror that is, the other side.
I wanted to see how the Ollivanders section of the official Diagon Alley (75978) would look if it were beefed up to a modular size. The most obvious change is the addition of the third floor of Ollivanders, but obviously the interiors of all floors have been updated. I will probably be tinkering with them in the future.
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Paper: Hexagons cutted from 20 cm, 15 cm, 10 cm, 7.5 cm and 5 cm Glassine
Modules: 5
Based on a Model by Tomoko Fuse
Wanted to redo this star for some time with more layers. To fit one hexagon into the other, I had to fold the other tips outside too and couldn't use Tomoko Fuse's locking mechanism. Depending on the size of the inner hexagon, the layers are moving a bit.
60° Origami Modular (Maria Sinayskaya)
squares, 12, 10, 4 units, no glue
All three units are of slightly different sizes.
Modular Origami Stars (Maria Sinayskaya)
squares, 6 units, no glue
Fronts are exactly the same (on the top).
Below are 3 different reverses. The central one is somewhat flimsy, other two work better.
Parisian, built to the same scale as set 10230: Mini Modulars. I took a lot of influence from other builders on this one, so credit where it's due: the front roof design is a very gently modified version of Chricki's brilliant design on Rebrickable, and the general window spacing/proportions are based on fgee's model.
I realized only as I was editing the photos that I made the dumpster's lid light gray instead of the dark gray that it should be. Oh well!
Maria Sinayskaya
www.flickr.com/photos/goorigami/12723931293/in/album-7215...
3x3 cm. Double tissue paper.
One of the latest.
I really really have bad times when it comes to finding high quality paper here in Mexico, and bring paper in from overseas is painfully expensive.
It may not have the vivid colors as Maria original ones, but I really hope to refold these stars with a better quality paper.
For most of the stars I keep the same color Maria is using, it seems she is unbeatable at the mixtures she uses for every star.
I don't have proper lighting equipment and I'm finding quite difficult to photograph tissue paper because some times is a bit reflective and you get reflections all over the model.
This photos will be a little weird when it comes to lighting and colors.
Modular origami wall art by Christine Kirk. She tells about her process in this blog post: www.allthingspaper.net/2021/04/modular-origami-wreath.html
Lego bookstore modular inspired by A.Masow Architects concept store. There are four apartments above the bookstore. The modular house can be opened at the back and is fully furnished. About 6500 bricks. Computer rendering but only existing bricks/colors were used. Reference images.
Modular Origami Stars (Maria Sinayskaya)
squares, 6 units, no glue
Out of these three stars one features just a single pattern (star), another shows two (star+star) and the third combines 3 patterns (star+pinwheel+wreath).
Other stars with a single pattern (pinwheel, wreath):
www.flickr.com/photos/goorigami/26441487591/in/photostream/
Other stars with two elements combined (star+wreath, star+pinwheel, pinwheel+wreath):
www.flickr.com/photos/goorigami/26481623896/in/photostream/
There are some other combinations and with big enough squares one can go even deeper, adding more elements on top.
I used 7.5 cm kami paper by Peter Keller. Same pack as here:
This is a new version of my Modular Railway Station. The model consists of a main building and three platform sections.
Modular Origami Coaster (Maria Sinayskaya)
circles, 6 units, no glue
One fold less than here and a star becomes a round coaster!
This miniature city is created with (mostly) 4x4 modular segments that each can be rearranged to create different cities with unique infrastructures. Cars can drive on the roads, boats can navigate through the canals and underneath the functional bridges and the train follows the railway simply by pushing it!
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I designed this with the Parisian Restaurant in mind, but it is made to be totally modular and used with any Modular from Lego or custom built.
The central part of my idea is the park, which in turn can be used as a larger park or two smaller ones, on the likes of the Lego Pet Shop modular.
But there’s more! It can be connected to extra pavements and these can also be used with your modulars, to create squares, make a standard modular look like a corner one, or create your own and unique combination. Did I mention that there's also a colorful mosaic?
There's a bunch of accessories, from a fire hydrant to a comfy bench, and some of them are used to disguise the standard Technic brick used to connect modulars.
And if that was not enough, you will get a lot of accessories to make your city stem to life!
There's a newspaper kiosk, designed to remind the Parisian ones, a crepes rickshaw, a trash trolley, a monumental statue, two wonderfully flowered trees and a big oak tree to give some shade in the park.
And then several other smaller accessories that can be used with this set or all over your modular town.
And, last but not least, there’s 7 minifigs (and a dog) to animate the town!
If you are a Lego Modulars fan, you will want to have all of these in your Lego town.
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This is a modular castle wall that can be expanded to your own liking. The main modules include the gate, the wall section and the corner section.
Each of them is connected to the other by technic pins.
If you wish to build these please check out the tutorials bellow:
Wall section: youtu.be/_dCbDXi5tuI
Corner section: youtu.be/eLtpEeupXUs
Gate: youtu.be/dQxpJUcwIUA
Modular Origami Star (Maria Sinayskaya)
squares, 6 units, no glue
A new version of a star from the past, this one on the right-hand side.
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Designer: Xander Perrott?
Paper: Flieder by Peter Keller
This one is disappointing because it doesn't seem to want to form a 30 unit model. At least not with 5 pointed stars and 12 of them. I haven't yet tried a dodecahedron assembly. Hopefully the structure is apparent, this is an octahedron and the stars go past each other which I quite like, I just need to work on the angles a bit more to get a 30 unit modular perhaps.