This week’s build is a mix of things that I’ve been seeing around, with a cluster of small-and-talls on a on a single, large lot.
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Micropolis Monday: Blue Houses
Sometimes, I developer will buy two lots and redivided them into three. This kind of thing happens a fair amount in Portland, so I figured that I should represent another kind of urban infill.
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Micropolis Monday: Mismatched Houses
This week’s houses started with some roof experimentation. Rooflines can be hard to capture in the Micropolis scale, which sits at an awkward point where it is hard to do complex things like dormers, yet it is equally hard to get smooth slopes at many angles.
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Micropolis Monday: Tumble House
I’m finishing out my first month of Micropolis Mondays with a sprawling modern home: the Tumble House.
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Micropolis Monday: Big House
This model is based on a house from one of my old neighborhoods. I used to walk by this big house on a corner lot just about every day. It had this cool, quasi-georgian style too it. That house was a cool, older house that had seen better days and I wanted to build my own version of it.
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40349 Puppy
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, and this year’s set is an adorable BrickHeadz puppy. This is definitely closer in theme than the 40270 Valentine’s Bee from last year. I just couldn’t resist his derpy tongue!
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40348 Birthday Clown
Normally, I’m not much for clowns. Pop culture has mostly turned clowns into villains in face paint. I decided to give this seasonal birthday set a chance, and I’m glad that I did.
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Micropolis Monday: Domino Foursquares
In a lot of cities, residential neighborhoods are getting denser. Last week’s house had a luxuriously large lot, but this week I’ve squeezed two houses and an ADU into a single module.
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40354 Dragon Dance Guy
I was really excited to see that LEGO decided to use BrickHeadz for their seasonal sets again in 2019. I was even more excited to see that one of their Chinese New Year sets would be available in the United States, for the first time! I had to get my hands on that!
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75972 Dorado Showdown
I barely know anything about Overwatch®, but I am a fan of sci-fi builds, be they space ships or mecha or anything in between. It was the lure of new minifig parts and such that lured me to give this new series of Overwatch sets a chance.
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