My WIP City

[gray pivot]

THIS IS SICKKK TFF

KYOGRE+

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GROUDON

RAYQUAZA?

[merry timber]

Yes sir

[naive roost]

How big is your city in studs

About 224 in width

[merry timber]

Length is 400 studs currently

But I have plan to extend the length further

[naive roost]

Fuckkkk

[merry timber]

The train hasn't completed the loop yet

[naive roost]

So you got, what, 9 x48 plates in length and 5 x48 in width??

[merry timber]

12.5 baseplates for length and 7 for width

Well that's the outside

So ig around 87.5 baseplates supposed to be sitting on the table

[naive roost]

[merry timber]

I still have a lot of spaces to fill lol

[naive roost]

How did you make space for that lmao

[merry timber]

I sectioned my home theatre room

[naive roost]

I'm about to sacrifice a quarter of my bedroom for a 3x5 x48 baseplate city

[merry timber]

Basically take half of that room for lego city

[naive roost]

Oh, you're just rich

[merry timber]

I'm pretty sure I can add more spaces if I push all the desk to the wall

Right now, I want walking space for every angle of the city

[naive roost]

Yeah I'd keep walking space for that size too

I plan on building a mountain in mine, in one of the corners

[merry timber]

sick how big is your planned mtn?

[naive roost]

Mountain top will be around 80 bricks high

So a little under 80cm

[merry timber]

nice

[misty gyro]

looks amazing 🎉

[blissful quarry]

Omg this looks so fun to look at

[merry timber]

if you want a challenge, I have hid a Waldo minifigure in the pics. Try to find it

[blissful quarry]

;-;

normal head or modled

And am I allowed to know which photo or if he’s inside or outside

[merry timber]

he's wearing a hat

[merry timber]

should be first photo and he's outside for sure

[blissful quarry]

Like a Santa hat?

[merry timber]

he's wearing a cowboy hat lol

other than that, his outfit is the same

red striped shirt

[blissful quarry]

I see

TO EASY

[merry timber]

lol bingo

[knotty lion]

bro is rich rich

[hollow ferry]

can u show ur Pokémon’s

[merry timber]

I have added a couple more but have yet to capture a pic

[simple wagon]

There is no way you didnt know he was hella rich after you saw that city

[naive roost]

I'm not rich because I buy a ton of lego

850+ sets and counting

[merry timber]

A lot of the buildings you see

are just me lowballing the seller

and for some reason, they accept

especially for long retired sets

I get most used and retired sets for about 50% of the current market value

[echo sequoia]

nah u all so lucky to have literal fucking lego cities

[naive roost]

idk I just have a full time job and no life

[blissful quarry]

I never had a job

[ember raft]

jazz club without balcony mod spotted

[simple wagon]

i prefer the one without balconies tbh

[naive roost]

same

[merry timber]

Same

[ember raft]

darn

[blissful quarry]

Same

[ember raft]

y'all all really not gonna even elaborate on why? or are you just memeing now

[naive roost]

I don't like how it obscures the front of the building

[merry timber]

Added 2 more ninjago buildings

[hidden ice]

I LOVE that mostly oink and purple biiiiiig-ifigure in your city! Is it a MOC you made ?

[merry timber]

it's Galactus that I found on Rebrickable

Bought the instruction and bricks for it

[hidden ice]

Oh awesome! 🤩

[hidden ice]

Cool!

I think it looks mega mega awesome

[merry timber]

thx

[merry timber]

Here's a closer pic

[hidden ice]

Thanks! 🤩
I think it looks really really really really awesome

[hidden ice]

Where does the Silver Surfer come from ?

@merry timber Wpuld you Luke to see a bigifiguee MOC that I made?

[merry timber]

sure

[hidden ice]

Ok

[merry timber]

I forgot. Bought it a while ago

[merry timber]

nice. It's one of those old Lego fig right?

looks like that

[hidden ice]

I'm not sure, I didn't make it based in any LEGO in particular, I just made it from my imagination

[merry timber]

nice

[hidden ice]

Thanks

This is the back of ir (it does not look as nice as rhe front

:

:

[merry timber]

just showcase it with the back against the wall, no one would see that

[hidden ice]

Oh yes, I wouldn't show the back to the public side

[hidden ice]

But it has been destroyed now

Becsuee I built it for a display in a charity shop and it got destroyed

[austere marsh]

This is literally my dream

Do you have any tips on building a lego city?

[merry timber]

Start with choosing a standard base and stick with it

I would highly recommend MILS

[austere marsh]

Ok thank you

[austere marsh]

I need to learn about Lego

Ok now i know

[austere marsh]

Do you create your own baseplate or do you do something else?

Can you tell me about MILS please @merry timber?

[merry timber]

MILS comprises of a baseplate layer, bricks, and plate

On the bricks layer, it has the technic bricks that u can use to connect all the MILS baseplates together

Also allows u to make baseplates that have features like a hole on the sidewalk or sth like that

Very useful if u want to integrate the current Lego road plates with modular buildings

Just look it up on youtube

[austere marsh]

I did

Thank you

[ember raft]

does anyone have experience migrating a modular from baseplate to mils? how hard is it?

[merry timber]

Not too hard. The baseplate is very flexible. All you have to do is bend it to grab the walls of the ground floor

Then rebuild the tiles according to instruction

[ember raft]

mm

[merry timber]

Shouldn't be too long

Some buildings will be more complicated than some tho

I can think of the Assembly Square as one of the harder ones

[austere marsh]

Lol i have that

[inland wave]

w

[naive roost]

Assembly square is hard because the instructions are shit and old style

[austere marsh]

Yeah

[austere marsh]

When you are making a drawing of your city, what tools should i use and anything else i should know?

Like tools to make the drawing

[merry timber]

I just imagine and build as I go lol

No tool

I use stud.io to design some buildings in my city like the Teen Titans Tower

Basically I want to have a nice skyline as seen from my pier

So I put all the tall towers toward the water

And basically make sure they overlap each other as little as possible

[austere marsh]

Whats that program called?

[naive roost]

microsoft office excel lmao

[austere marsh]

Oh lol

Ok

[austere marsh]

So basically keep the tall towers away from each other?

[merry timber]

yeah or if you have to put the shorter skyscraper in front of a taller one, don't let it obscure the best feature of the taller skyscraper

like logo or what not

[austere marsh]

ok

[merry timber]

Added these 2 to my city

[empty gull]

Your city is amazing

I love it

[short harness]

love how the city is so full of action

everywhere you look there's something happening

[blissful quarry]

Wow people are talking here again

This was a sick build and still is

Oh nah he upgraded it with some new sets to

W

[blissful quarry]

Wait you built that galactis?

[merry timber]

Yes sir. Using a rebrickable instruction

[merry timber]

And I added some lights

[blissful quarry]

🔥🔥

[blissful quarry]

Nice nice

[merry timber]

Here's some mod I made to the Daily Bugle

Pretty old vid but the layout since then hasn't changed much

[patent bobcat]

How could u even afford this much legos?

[empty gull]

Goofing off for a living 😝

[patent bobcat]

Maybe he’s rich already

Or just how u said it jobee

[simple wagon]

https://tenor.com/view/family-guy-peter-griffin-credit-card-debt-credit-card-debt-gif-27305263

[patent bobcat]

Fr fr

[merry timber]

work hard play hard

lol

[patent bobcat]

Has

Yes

But how

Are you a company owner

This is like 15000$

Or more

[merry timber]

nah I work as a software dev

[patent bobcat]

Oh bro

Mb

But how much does that all cost?

Like 50 000$???

[merry timber]

ugh I think 20k would be more appropriate

[patent bobcat]

Oh ok

Thx for response

[median zephyr]

Bro that looks sick

Where you get that galactus and surfer from

[merry timber]

The Galactus is a moc from Rebrickable and Surfer is BKB custom

[blissful quarry]

[west glade]

The hoenn legendary trio in Lego is peak

[west glade]

What are all the little pokemon figures from

[merry timber]

They are custom pokemon figs made by Liberty Bricks and MF

[west glade]

MF?

[merry timber]

Minifigs Factory

[patent bobcat]

[patent bobcat]

[lethal fiber]

wow

[patent bobcat]

Crunkle stunkle wins the funkle bunkle

[rose venture]

what are your table dimensions? Or what were they at the time of this picture?

[merry timber]

about 300 cm

[rose venture]

wdym

300cm x ?

[merry timber]

300x180

at the time of that pic

[rose venture]

nice, i have most of the modular buildings but lack a proper table, so mine have to be very compact

[merry timber]

I use the Ikea Linnmon

[rose venture]

yeah same, i have 4 layed out in 200x120cm

but i got a lot of my large creator expert sets sitting on it too since they are too big for my shelving units

im also currently building the ucs venator and i have no clue where im gonna put that, it might fit on the shelves but ill have to see

[merry timber]

or just hang it from the ceiling

that's what I do with my ships

[rose venture]

sadly i cant

i keep my collection in a sort of outdoor shed type thing

i cant nail things into the ceiling or walls, really sucks

[merry timber]

ah ok

[rose venture]

i dont think i'd trust fishing wire to hold the venator anyways though 😂

[merry timber]

you would be amazed at how strong the fishing wires are

it's the hook that might not hold lol

[rose venture]

yeah it would be a bit of a nightmare trying to salvage and repair that set

would be a really cool display if i could hang it though, i'd hang my death star with it

[bronze swan]

Crunkle uncle wins the chuckle

[merry timber]

Some more lights added

[west glade]

Mars mission alien invasion is wild

Love all the stuff going on in your city

[merry timber]

Thx. I have a lot of pop culture in my city

[west glade]

Your pokemon nice have inspired me to try to create my own, but accuracy is tricky

[merry timber]

Added the ninjago markets

[merry timber]

Some pirates problem near the city

[patent bobcat]

Oh noes

[grave spire]

Awesome! I love cities that people come up with! Always super unique and the story's you can create within it are endless. Well done!

[merry timber]

Thank you

[round onyx]

Shout out for the Titan's Tower!

[lone path]

Looks good 10/10

[jade mountain]

This looks awesome! Maybe ballast the train track?

[graceful shell]

Where did you find that groudon

[merry timber]

Yeah I'm working on that

[merry timber]

I bought the instruction from godturtle

[graceful shell]

Thank you

[bronze ocean]

super tremendous

[rose venture]

@merry timber i finished my lego london diorama, i think i spoke with you about it a while ago

[merry timber]

That looks so nice

Yeah i rmb u told me about your proj

[jade mountain]

i cant wait to see how this will look in ur layout

@merry timber any new updates to your city?

[merry timber]

It's kinda a mess rn bcuz I'm lighting up more building and repositioning couple of buildings lol

[jade mountain]

yooooo ur lighting?! sick

btw

have you considered expanding the sitcomplex alex nunes style

[merry timber]

The extra half baseplate addon?

[jade mountain]

nah the height expansion

[merry timber]

I'll definitely add more floors for it

[jade mountain]

cool! also pls consider starting a yt channel for the city lol

[merry timber]

Lol

[jade mountain]

i wanna follow the progress

[merry timber]

I'm repositioning it so that it looks good on my webcam as my work background first lol

[jade mountain]

YAY you are planning on it 😀 pls notify me when you get it started

[merry timber]

Yup I want to have most if not all of my skyscrapers to be visible

At least the famous ones

[jade mountain]

yea i rly like the ones you have

ive always wanted to build a mega daily bugle

i dont rly have space tho

[merry timber]

That seems like a cool proj

But it would take me too much time to work on that now

Bcuz I would have to rerun all the wires for that building

I spent so much time wiring lights to that building lol

[jade mountain]

oh yea i forgot that you have lighting

[jade mountain]

do you make your own lights or do you use light kits

[merry timber]

For the official sets except for the Daily Bugle, I use light kits

[merry timber]

This is my Daily Bugle in case u haven't seen it yet

I do have a plan to rework the rope light on the "Y" so it doesn't look too weird

[jade mountain]

the live images look amazing

what did you use for that?

[merry timber]

I built a bracket that fits an iPhone 6S exactly

I found that phone to be perfect for the Daily Bugle

[jade mountain]

oh thats really smart

[jade mountain]

have you csoniedered blinky lights or whatever bevins bricks uses

i heard you can light a modular yourself for $14 instead of buying the entire kit

[merry timber]

Yes you could

Not sure what blinky light is

[rose venture]

hi rocket

[jade mountain]

https://www.blinkybricks.com/products/modular-building-light-kit Blinky bricks nvm, if youre ever tight on cash look into this

[jade mountain]

wsg tree

[jade mountain]

havent looked too deeply at it but its literally only 15 bucks lol

[merry timber]

Ah that

Well that's still kinda expensive no? For my mocs, I buy bulk lights on aliexpress

And wires too

[rose venture]

po and rocket

i started building my heron tower

wanna see some images?

[merry timber]

Sure

[merry timber]

Are u keeping the interior empty?

[rose venture]

this image shows how tall the finished model is, but the tape measure is a little bent so it may not be the most accurate

[jade mountain]

looking good so far!

[rose venture]

yeah for now to cut cost

[jade mountain]

damn are those actually good quality

[merry timber]

Yeah they are

Well only time will tell

But so far, they have been fine

[merry timber]

Sickkk

That's one tall building

[jade mountain]

can you link what you use?

[merry timber]

Sure

[rose venture]

will be the tallest thing ive ever made out of lego when its done

atm its the avengers tower

[merry timber]

Nice

[merry timber]

Store that I buy wires: HPROSPER Official Store
https://a.aliexpress.com/_mLVrf3p

[jade mountain]

i should really pick this one up

[rose venture]

tallest proper build i should add, ive probably made something taller than the avengers tower while pissing about as a kid

[jade mountain]

tysm

[rose venture]

its really good, im not really a massive marvel fan and i still think its awesome

[jade mountain]

knowing my dumbass self id probably try to combine two avengers towers and end up breaking both 💀

[merry timber]

This is the light I use: https://a.co/d/e5sTax3

[rose venture]

i probably dont understand like 90% of the references in it because of that though 😭

[merry timber]

Lol

[rose venture]

if you wanna do that then do it with the bugle instead

avengers tower has a much more complex structure and build

makes it very hard to mod

[merry timber]

The avenger tower itself is a nice building

[rose venture]

to a significant degree

[merry timber]

Architecturally

[rose venture]

yeah, i totally agree

[merry timber]

The only mod I can think of for that is to build the base building like in the movie

[rose venture]

yeah but like making the whole structure bigger

would be quite an undertaking

[jade mountain]

yea im going to

[rose venture]

wouldnt be nearly as easy as doing the bugle

[merry timber]

Oh yeah

[rose venture]

i really wanna do it to my bugle but i dont really like to mod my sets lol

[jade mountain]

yeah it takes a good amount of bravery to mess around with such expensive lego

[rose venture]

i'd recommend making it a bit thicker, not double the thickness of the default model though

so you can still add an extra level

and have it have 5 floors while being a bit thicker

[jade mountain]

im the type of person who would just try to make it as tall as possible

[rose venture]

like 1.5 or 1.75 baseplates wide

[jade mountain]

and fail miserably

[jade mountain]

id probably make it a corner building

2x2 baseplates

[rose venture]

thats actually a cool idea

[jade mountain]

very tall

but itd cost an absolute fortune

[rose venture]

build like a grey flatiron building lmao

doubt that would work with the supplied pieces

[jade mountain]

have you seen bevins bricks

lol he actually did that

[rose venture]

he made a normal flatiron

but his was very impressive

[merry timber]

I think my custom Teen Titans might be a bit taller than the Avenger Tower due to the raised baseplate I use

[rose venture]

cant find a picture of his finished model on google

but you get the idea

[jade mountain]

yea that looks rly cool

its straight up nyc yea

[rose venture]

avengers tower looks so nice with the lights

i wanna light up my building but im still trying to figure out the best way to do it

its not designed to have wires go through it

[jade mountain]

the problem with lighting skyscrapers imo is the lack of interior becomes apparent

[rose venture]

mine has trans brown windows so it should be fine enough

[merry timber]

Old pic but this is what the lit up AT looks like at night

[jade mountain]

just... wow

also damn

even the aliexpress lights are expensive lol

apparently lighting is just expensive ig

[merry timber]

Lighting lego should be a separate hobby lol

And it's not as enjoyable as building

That's why my lighting progress has been so slow

Lol

[jade mountain]

also am i the only one who absolutely LOVES this lego city

[merry timber]

Same

[jade mountain]

lol fr its more the reward than the process

[merry timber]

I love Bevin's city

[jade mountain]

severely underrated yeah

[jade mountain]

i also love bricksie's city

i wont lie i used to think that he wasnt a great builder

but hes gotten so so so much better

its actually amazing

[rose venture]

yeah its really awesome

[merry timber]

Also I really dig Matt's Brick Collection city

[rose venture]

all his stuff has really nice lighting too because hes an electrician

[merry timber]

He spent a lot of time wiring screens in his build

Esp the TMNT lair

[merry timber]

Yup

[jade mountain]

ima have to check this out rq

[merry timber]

Too much light = bad

[rose venture]

this guy?

https://www.youtube.com/@MattsBricks-xf2ex/videos

😟

[merry timber]

https://youtu.be/RfwcxHJOmaE?si=LkPE4TxWABZk4-Y-

This guy

[jade mountain]

omg the lighting is incredible

[merry timber]

I like his TMNT lair

[rose venture]

its cool but i prefer cities that have a lot of custom builds

by that i mean like custom modulars

and towers

his train station looks awesome

[jade mountain]

tbh it depends in my preference

for example

stein auf stein uses mostly the standard modulars

however

hes got one of the most detailed lego cities imo

[rose venture]

yeah but it would look so much better if he had custom modulars

like brickcrafts

the thing i find with the lego modulars is that they arent very realistic looking when placed in a layout

because in real life buildings that are next to each other dont just look completely different

if you look at a highstreet, a lot of the buildings are very similar looking

[jade mountain]

brickcrafts' city would be much better if it werent 90% grass elements

[rose venture]

just an example

there was another really detailed one i saw, i forget the dudes name though

he had a bunch of tudor style buildings

[jade mountain]

i like brick world

the train station is so awesome

[jade mountain]

this isnt neccesarily true for all places though

in nyc a lot of the buildings next to each other actually look very different

[rose venture]

they are all generally of a similar style though

heres a european style high street

heres one for a smaller town

[jade mountain]

youve got a good point

but idk

i just feel like for small lego cities

the diversity of all the official modulars make the entire city pop

[jade mountain]

also @merry timber (u obviously dont have to answer if you dont want to) but are you an AFOL or a teenage lego enthusiast?

[merry timber]

I'm AFOL

[jade mountain]

Oh ok, that makes sense. I was wondering how you got all the money to spend on those amazing sets haha (it makes sense now tho since ur an AFOL)

Also @merry timber a suggestion I have that might be SUPER hard to implement (but would be very cool) is an elevated rail line

[merry timber]

I thought about that too

But I scraped the idea due to a plan that i have to elevate my city

Bcuz lego keeps on releasing new buildings

And space doesn't expand

Trying to use my z-space

[jade mountain]

yea thats smart

[noble fox]

poor old ninjago city off in the corner

[copper urchin]

This is awesome

[jade mountain]

@merry timber I’m a Lego train nerd so I’m sorry for asking but are you planning on automating the train layout with something like Pybrocks or Arduino?

Or even a ESP32 (arduino microcontroller) or Raspberry Pi 5

[merry timber]

I have thought about it but it's very low on my priority list tho

I have a couple of rpi and arduino to play around with

[jade mountain]

Yeah it’s a very low priority thing but i think it’d be really cool and make your city stand out even more than it already does

[jade mountain]

Hey that’s awesome I wish I did too

I don’t have any automation stuff but I’ve spent way too much time researching it so if you need any cool ideas regarding the train setup lmk

[merry timber]

I'll reach out to u whenever I have sth for trains

🙏

[upbeat hound]

This moc is so insane

In a good way

I love the amount of pokemon in this

[coral ferry]

Holy shit

[full rivet]

🥹 my dream

[elfin coral]

Nice

[merry timber]

Drone-ish view of the main street

[humble carbon]

This is sick. I can't wait until I get my own place so I can create a big setup like this

[upbeat hound]

That’s absolutely beautiful