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.
Continue reading Micropolis Monday: Mismatched Houses
I’m finishing out my first month of Micropolis Mondays with a sprawling modern home: the Tumble House.
Continue reading Micropolis Monday: Tumble 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.
Continue reading Micropolis Monday: Big House
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.
Continue reading Micropolis Monday: Domino Foursquares
I feel like residential neighborhoods are a neglected aspect of Micropolis cities. To get this feature started, I built a small modern home.
Continue reading Micropolis Monday: Tea Plantation House
Check out this fantastic block of European style apartment buildings by Tammo S. I love seeing this kind of urban fabric build in Micropolis, where layouts often don’t have the organic feel of a living city.
This is one of those models that started with a picture. That picture doesn’t have anything to do with the finished model, but it planted a seed in my mind. Once the idea was there, I just had to grab some bricks and start building. Continue reading J. T. Buffalo Museum
A while back, New Elementary put out a call for participants in one of their Festivals of Parts. They are one of my favorite LEGO blogs and a solid influence on the way that I write about my hobby, so I jumped at the opportunity. I wasn’t alone in wanting to test my skills, so it was lovely to be chosen to receive a bag of Nexogons. Continue reading Coronae Softworks
Growing up, I was always fascinated by storage tanks. They seemed mysterious, their contents unfathomable. Most of that is probably because I was an impressionable kid who never noticed signage and just wanted them to have secret lairs inside ala Thunderball. Continue reading Industrial Micropolis (part 2)
Every city has a dirty side, where all the warehouses and factories and such live. Since I’ve already built a fair amount of residential and commercial buildings, it’s time to turn my attention toward industrial zones. I’ll get things started with a wrecking yard. Continue reading Industrial Micropolis (part 1)