Lepin 15008 Not Lego Green Grocer Set Review - Part Three

Hello, if you've just joined us, this post is about building the third floor of the Lego knockoff Lepin 15008 Green Grocer modular building.  I take pictures of the sets as I build them, so you can see what the Lepin build and brick quality is like.  In the above picture, I have just finished the third floor base.

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The Green Grocer third floor walls and windows are now in place.  I like the neat hot water radiator design under the rear window.  I also put in the railings for the staircase.

This is the rear view and you can see there's the makings of the fire escape exit.

Just pointing out the nice pendulum clock.  That and the rug is all the furnishings you get on the third floor.  Pretty sparse layout.

I put the staircase in and the upper window elements.  The front facade is starting to match the design scheme of the second floor now.

Here's the completed front with bay window.

A final look at the third floor interior.

I've attached the sloping roof tiles now.

This is how the structures look from the inside.

And with that, I have positioned the third floor onto the rest of the Green Grocer building.

Just some views.  Front corner elevation.

Rear corner elevation.

This is the back of the Green Grocer building.  As I mentioned in my previous post, the black windows are my own substitution, and the garbage bin is an addition from the Lepin Parisian Restaurant set.

This picture gives you a good look at the fire escape and how it all fits together between the second and third floors.

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The Rooftop

This is the formation of the Green Grocer rooftop.

Another view of it.

Here's how the rooftop looks as per the original design.  It has doorway into the third floor staircase and it opens up onto a small terrace.  Take a good look at this picture now, because then you will see what is to come later.

This is the front of the roof top.

The completed rooftop with all the embellishments including railings and chimney stack.

Here is the rooftop with the furnished terrace.  There's what appears to be a BBQ with open lid, and a small seating area with chairs and umbrella.  The terrace is adorned with flowers boxes also.  At this point, the rooftop is still the original design, but if you know me, I never leave things alone.

Do you notice anything different between this picture and the previous one?  I mean besides the presence of the minifigure.

Not sure?  Ok, how about this side view, maybe now you will notice the change.  It's all very subtle but it was a challenge to do.

Ok, if you still don't know, I raised the height of the roofline by several bricks and added a canopy over the door opening.

What I like about the taller roofline is that it gives a better visual appearance, especially the proper sense of scale when a minifigure is present.

The bay window turret required that I turn the rear angle plates around to accommodate the new slope of the rooftop.

The Lepin Green Grocer with rooftop modification is all done.

Just one more picture before we go.

Finally, here's the Lepin Green Grocer in it's new home next to the Lepin Town Hall.

That's it, bye and thanks for looking!

Oh wait,  in case you were wondering whatever happened with my Aliexpress dispute regarding the missing baseplate and other bricks I talked about in my first Green Grocer post, Aliexpress ruled in my favour and I got a refund of 50% back. Woohoo!

If you want to see my previous posts about the Lepin Green Grocer you can find them here and here.

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Lepin 15008 Not Lego Green Grocer Set Review - Part Two

This is part two of my Lepin Green Grocer modular review at its-not-lego.blogspot.com.  I'll be documenting the construction of the second floor of the Lepin set 15008.   This should be a relatively quick post, so I hope you have time to look at the pictures.   In the above picture, we are on step 10 and have added the beginnings of a fireplace and a fire escape.  I'm not impressed with the clugy looking fire escape hand rails, is there no way to make a better looking fire escape?

On step 20 now, we have the walls halfway bricked in with sand green bricks and a railing has been added to the interior stairwell. 

Here's how the fireplace looks now.  The dark red bricks will be the second floor curtains.

This is the rear of the second floor.    See those small white windows?  I will be replacing them with different black ones.  I do this, because most times people won't see the back of my buildings, and because I am saving the white windows for future mods.  Only diehard modular fans will notice the difference in some of the parts I substitute.

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Here's another look at the fire escape.

More progress has been made after step 30.  The staircase going to the third floor is in and so the small white cat is making himself at home.  All the windows are installed including the bay window and the large picture windows on the front.  Those curtains look so real.   Front balcony railings added to the front too.

The small black windows are in.  Do you prefer the original white ones or the new black ones I've used?  The fire escape has been extended upwards by another flight.

Second floor completed!  

Close up look at the window details

Looking at the back now.

Unlike the first floor, the second floor of the Green Grocer is quite sparse.  It only has a fireplace and some drapes.  I'll have to add some furnishings in the future.

Here is the second floor of the Green Grocer set onto the first floor. 

Side view.

Back view.

The little guy seems to have found his baseball cap now.

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That's it for the now.  Thanks for looking at the Lepin Green Grocer second floor pictures.  The roof section will be looked at in part three.

Lepin 15011 Not Lego Detective's Office Set Review - Part Three

Here is my final blog post regarding the Lepin 15011 Detective's Office modular building set.  We will finish the third and final floor today.  According to the Lepin instructions, it will take us 45 steps to complete the third floor and roof assemblies for this modular.

Step 10.

Here's the base plate setup for the third floor after ten steps.  There are openings for the stairwell and skylight.

Step 20.

In step 20. we finish off the small kitchen on the third floor and add railings to the stair case.  As with the second floor, the third floor is composed of two shades of light and medium blue bricks.

Inside the kitchen, there is a cabinet with two fake drawers (not the opening kind, sorry).  We also find a small 4 burner stove.  Additionally, there are two round tables. One with a mixing bowl and another with some cookies on a tray.  Above the stove is a small ledge and rolling pin.

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The hinge is broken on the stove's transparent door.  Unfortunately, I don't have a spare piece like this one in my brick stash, so I will have to make do.

Here's the side view of the third floor.

I've now added the third floor to the detective's office  and will continue building from here.

Step 30.

 Here are some pictures of the completed third floor.

This door leads from the kitchen to the rooftop above the detective's office.

A quick look around back.

Helicopter view of the third floor.

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Step 40. 

In step 40, we added the skylight, the water tower and cornices over the second floor.

Front view. Almost completed.

Side view of rooftop.

Step 45.

 All done!  Looking downwards from above.

 I really like the varied details of the roof lines.   Here's a look at the third floor roof.

And the second floor roof line.

The back of the completed Detective's Office.

Last look at the rooftop.

 The Lepin Detective's Office finished at last.

 Just a few more pictures...

Here's barber Al and the police officer.  I changed the police minifigure's head, wanted to give him a tougher demeanor.  Oh, and there's that giant tiger cub again.  He should have been a small cat.

The two pool hall patrons.

The lady in red and the detective.

I was lucky that there were no missing or deformed pieces.  The only problem was the swivel chair base, which I've replaced now.   I only wish they had made a bedroom for the detective, because they could have built it above the office.

To see the other blog posts about the Lepin Detective Office,  Part One can be found here, and Part Two can be found here at http://its-not-lego.blogspot.com.

Thanks for looking!