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Tenth MOC building technique: Custom chassis (vehicles)

If you are one of the people who likes making vehicles but always think that every vehicle MOC you made isn't good enough, then this is for you.

Custom chassis basically just help to bring reality to the MOC and make the Lego mud guard pieces look better and look like a real car. Here's a chassis of one of my Lego vehicle MOCs.

Here's the instructions for this chassis.

Eleventh building technique: Curving and making your MOCs smooth

Curving and making your MOCs smooth is just for the sake of making it look sharper and cooler, really. Anyway, here's one of my MOCs that uses this technique.

Doesn't this look cool and sharp-looking? Try applying this technique, you'll soon find yourself with tons of cool cars by smoothing your MOCs!

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The techniques that I teach here aren't all that Lego uses and has. I just only tell you the ones that I know. In fact, a good way is to buy Lego sets and figure out more building techniques, look at books on Lego techniques or look up for videos on building techniques! Soon, you'll find yourself as a perfect MOC maker! What are you waiting for? Start buying a few complicated LEGO sets now!

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Sixth MOC building technique: Sliding doors

Most shopping centres, some shops, aeroplanes and vans use sliding doors. If you happen to build any of these in Lego, you'll definitely make a sliding door. I have made some MOCs with sliding doors and here are the pictures of the MOCs which I have shown with sliding doors.

Sliding door of the Dino company restaurant(Lego City 1)

Sliding door beside beach (Lego Garage MOC)

This vehicle also appears in Lego Garage MOC.  Not the most important, though. By the way, if you are the fortunate ones to have a piece which has a 1x8 plate with a smooth place in the front, congratulations. If you are those unfortunate ones like me, you'll have to make your own base for it. Here's a tutorial I recommend. This video is made by JayStepher, not me. Click here to watch it.

Seventh MOC building technique: Support and balance (For bridges and mechs)

This MOC building technique is mostly directed to people who wants to build mechs and bridges MOCs, but anybody can read this.

Support and balance can help your bridges or mech MOCs to be able to stand up by themselves without holding them up. Here's an example.

As you can see, I built 3 pillars to hold up the bridge and prevent it from falling down (without anybody touching it).

Eighth MOC building technique: Furniture

Furniture is mostly used in houses and buildings, but if you are building a caravan, there will be a bit of furniture in it. Sometimes, you would see benches in real life when walking around. Here's an example of a bench outside.

This uses hinges again which you'll learn later. The bench has an armrest too. Furniture is easy, but only if you learn most of the techniques.

Ninth MOC building technique: Hinges and hoses

Hinges get very useful when you make a furniture, make a Lego ladder move up and down, making your own chair for a car or making a convertible car, custom windows, custom doors etc. Hoses are mostly for fire engines. Demonstration of hinges is at part 2.

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Second MOC technique: Colour combination

Colour combination is very important because if the colours are matched correctly, it will be nice but if matched wrongly, it would be ugly, even if the details are good. An example is this.

Lego police car MOC

As you can see, this police car's colours are matched correctly, so it looks good. By the way, this also appears in Lego city MOC: Garage (On base plate). The car also uses sideways building and hinges which you'll learn later on. Oh, one colour combination advice: Yellow and lime green look bad together. :| Here's the instructions:

Third MOC technique: Sideways building

This building technique is somehow (for me) always used in my Lego city vehicle MOCs to put the lights. You can scroll around to look at all my Lego city vehicle MOCs and you'll quickly see that all of them have the headlights sideways built. Here's a shortcut to all my Lego vehicle MOCs. Here's the pieces used for sideways building. Not all, though.

Fourth MOC building technique: SNOT

SNOT is one of the more advanced techniques and it's proven useful for making MOCs smooth. Also, it's just basically where you don't have the studs on top. One of the examples is this. 

Delivery van delivering fragile stuff

This has a SNOT roof and here's the tutorial.

Fifth MOC building technique: Bricks in between bricks

This is very uncommonly used but it is only used sometimes, though. Here's an example:

Don't you find this familiar? Never mind, I'll tell you what it is. It's the chair of World Lego News station! This is just not so commonly used that I would want to change this to the last building technique, Lol. :p Anyway, this can be helpful for making trees and those kind of chairs.

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Here's a post for 2500+ views on the Ace Swan blog! 

I now present to you a guide for Lego MOC- making beginners! The title is "MOC on with Lego!" and this will have possibly 4 parts. I'm not so sure about that though, but anyway, here's the post of MOC on with LEGO!

This post is packed with many detailed instructions and steps to guide you on making a good MOC! Techniques from other MOC makers and from the official LEGO designers are here!

Contents:
FAQ from beginners: What is a MOC? (3rd paragraph)
Why do we want to make MOCs?(4th paragraph)
What is SNOT?(5th paragraph)
Building techniques:
First MOC technique: Locking(6th paragraph)
Second MOC technique: Colour combination
Third MOC technique: Sideways building
Fourth MOC building technique: SNOT
Fifth MOC building technique: Bricks in between bricks
Sixth MOC building technique: Sliding doors
Seventh MOC building technique: Support and balance(For bridges and mechs) 
Eighth MOC building technique: Furniture(Houses and buildings)
Ninth MOC building technique: Hinges and hoses
Tenth MOC building technique: Custom chassis(vehicles)
Eleventh building technique: Curving and making your MOCs smooth
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Q: What is a MOC?
A: MOC stands for My Own Creation. A MOC is a creation that you make without following other people's instructions on making their MOCs or follow the official instructions from LEGO. It is important that you make your MOC completely unique because you would not want other people to accuse you of copying a person's MOC or their MOC.

Q: Why do we want to make MOCs?
A: It's what LEGO is all about! Making them and sharing it on blogs, Youtube, Lego Galleries etc. Of course, you need to make a MOC good enough to meet your expectations before you want others to like it. It's the best you leave a MOC standing on your shelf or whatsoever to observe whether does it pass your expectations.

Q: What is SNOT?
A: SNOT stands for studs not on top. It takes some time to remember it's long form, but you'll be alright once you see it a few times. SNOT is perfect for making MOCs with smooth layering on sides, top and in all directions.


First MOC technique: Locking

This technique is the most important of all because this is how all your LEGO bricks get stability with each other. A good example is this:

This is one of the MOCs I made for Lego City 2. As you can see, this has the bricks locking each other. Not only will this skill  be only used for buildings, it will also be used in all LEGO system-related MOCs. This is also important because this also adds stability (In part 3, you'll learnt what stability in LEGO form). Though it does strengthen the MOC you build, it does not mean your MOC is going to be drop proof. Also, if you just happen to have something you want to build that cannot use the locking technique throughout, at least lock the top and bottom, just like my Lego chistmas tree MOC. Here's how to build the Yellow Cross restaurant:

(The program used for the instructions was LDD, which stands for Lego Digital Designer. The LEGO company owns this software, not me.)

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