Basic Modular dimensions

[Blakstone]

I am planning my first City MOC. It would be a bicycle shop with two floors of apartments above it.

Even though I have not bought any modulars yet, I want to build this to be compatible. How many studs deep are those buildings? What is the placement of the pin bricks?

I searched online for a bit but could not find this info. Thank you.

[Denes]

Hey Blakstone,

I'm planning my first Modular Moc too, and this thread is really helpfully to me, with great pictures:

http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=36535&hl=modular+standards

I hope you can use those standards too

[Chocolatecake]

You can find the guides to the official Buildings at LEGO's homepage, then you can see where to put the pins, how to make the sidewalk and ideas on how to make some of the details. you can actually save the guides on your computer :)

[tedbeard]

^ Really? Last time I looked the guide pages were gone. Do you have the new URL?

[Blakstone]

The thread that Denes links to has the guide in it directly. The offsite location is gone though.

According to that guide though the last eight studs on a 32 stud deep base plate is are blank. Is there a specific reason for that? I think I will follow it just to reduce the amount of brink I am going to need.

[streifen]

The 1st brick of a typical modular house (no setback or extension in front) will start at the 9th stud of the baseplate. the technic bricks are at the 10th and 11th studs. This applies to the back portion though usually i only leave 6 studs at the back for yard/planting strip.

[Faefrost]

This always helps me

http://amodularlife.wordpress.com/2010/06/12/modular-standards-for-lego-city-buildings/

Also 9 to 11 or so bricks height is a good range for typical "non vaulted ceiling" floors.