MOC City panorama

[Kivi]

My largest MOC so far, a diorama showing a section from the city.

The main elements of the city are the houses, a road with tram tracks and a canal. The leftmost house has a small florist shop under the arches. There is a bus stop in front of the red house and an ATM. The nearby house is currently being renovated. To the right is a typical Victorian house and a zebra crossing in front of it. Across the road you can find a bike rack, a telephone booth and a tram stop.

The bridges connect both sides of the canal. A road crosses it on the older stone bridge...

...while the pedestrians can use a new footbridge nearby.

Florist shop

Tram stop

Tram stop shelter with ticket machine

Zebra crossing

Bus stop

ATM

Telephone booth

Bike rack

A popular way to see the city is taking a boat tour, with the tourists eager to capture every moment with their cameras.

Rear view, nothing special apart from some creative use of dark green bricks.

The entire thing is 127x71 cms in size (3x5 standard baseplates 32x32) and took about 9.000 bricks and 100 hours to build. Although designated as MOC, some elements are taken from official sets and other creations:

- both cars are from Cargo Train

- the street sweeper is OOB

- the bus is red-coloured MOD from City Corner

- the pram is taken from Green Grocer

- the ATM is borrowed from this creation

More pictures here.

[lightningtiger]

AWESOME city scape scene 'Kivi', wonderful fusing of classic town ideas with modern city ones. Every thing fits together so well, great work on the bridges and the roadways too......Brick On 'Kivi' !

[LEGO Guy Bri]

Lovely street scene Kivi! The attention to detail is great, I love when canals run through. Very well done

[Hey Joe]

Really, really cool. The streetcars are my favorite and take me back to the pleasant year I spent in Eastern Europe.

Joe

[timmyc1983]

Awesome street scene. Impressive attention to detail and very well set out! I tried to pick something to be my favourite part but everything is so well done I can't choose!!

Happy building!!

[ER0L]

I really love this, it's got its own style - a rather classic, but modernized look. :thumbup: I especially love the tiled streets with that amazing SNOT lettering, the bridges and that house under construction (great idea!). The house at the right end is my favourite.

One thing I don't like too much is the fact that the houses all seem to have the same width which wouldn't be necessary when omitting the usual town pattern. But that's a minor aspect.

[Redhead1982]

Fantastic build, Kivi. As I've seen it at the exhibition, and made comments in person, I just want to point out some of its highlights - in my view. It's the little details that make it special, the buildings are more of a background for the minifigs and their action. The guy taking a box of drinks to the building site, people crossing the street, pedestrian bridge with a river view, and a boat full of turists. Well done.

[Aussie BJ]

Looks so good Kivi. Many thanks for sharing. I looked at it yesterday for a good half an hour then again today for another half an hour. It's something i'd expect to see at a Legoland (never been myself) or a good annual Brickshow. I hope you're planning on displaying for the public? Thanks again and keep up the great mocing!

[Wedge09]

Really nice landscape, full of details :thumbup:

[eurotrash]

Excellent job! There's a bunch of details to be enjoyed wherever you look in the pictures. I particularly like the Florists Shop - it's tucked away, but its a semi-hidden gem!

Thanks for sharing it with us!

[greg3]

This is a wonderful street scene.... Love the building designs but it's the little details that bring it to life and the brick built road looks perfect!!

Excellent stuff!

[Kivi]

Thanks @all for comments.

I hope you're planning on displaying for the public?

It was displayed at KockeFest - our national LUG event in April.

and the brick built road looks perfect!!

Thanks greg3. It was planned right from the beginning to snot the entire road and thus have better chances to create all the lines and markings, although it took loads of DBG bricks.

[tomdobs55]

I love the little details, the ATM, phone booth, and I love, love, love the simplicity of the bike rack. I never would have thought of that. Big fan of the two bridges as well. Brick on!

[LAKAbricks]

Hi Kivi! I found your city panorama via your thread about the tramway in the the train forum. I was really impressed at the time - and I still am. It is really nice, all the small details. I like the shelter at the tram stop, especially how you made the seats.

[Chilis]

I`m impressed! Very well done Kivi! But it looks like alot more than 9000 bricks..? Would love to see how you did the roads and tramtracks tho.. I have a lot to learn. ;)

[LEGO Train 12 Volts]

Beautiful layout!

I like the sea!

[Chilis]

Hi Kivi! I found your city panorama via your thread about the tramway in the the train forum. I was really impressed at the time - and I still am. It is really nice, all the small details. I like the shelter at the tram stop, especially how you made the seats.

Hi, I`m a new member at Eurobricks.., can you please give me the link about the tramway in the trainforum? I could`nt find it...

Edited May 30, 2013 by Chilis

[Hrw-Amen]

Really nice little scene with so much going on. I think my favorite bit is the tram, but I also like the river scene, it has a lot of depth to it and your old stone bridge is very nice.

[Kivi]

I`m impressed! Very well done Kivi! But it looks like alot more than 9000 bricks..? Would love to see how you did the roads and tramtracks tho.. I have a lot to learn. ;)

Thanks Chilis. The brick count is a very rough estimate, there might be just as well 10.000 bricks or more (or less)... I didn't count them as I built. I could have counted them when I was disassembling the thing but I didn't either.

The tram tracks are ordinary rail tracks with tiles on exposed studs (and a layer of plates under the tiles as the rails alone are two plates high). All the roads are entirely snoted, i.e. built of bricks horizontally.

can you please give me the link about the tramway in the trainforum? I could`nt find it...

It is here: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=82113 Enjoy.

[brickgrrl]

Kivi,

Sorry to bump this old thread. I've looked at your gorgeous roads, and they're almost exactly what I'm trying to do (with train track recessed in SNOT roads), but I cannot for the life of me figure out how you made the transition from road to track without a half plate offset. Any hints? What part am I missing here? I've got a huge pile of brackets and snot bricks and technic, and cannot work it out!

[CarrollFilms]

I really like everything about this set. But, what if you took a bunch of 1x1 light blue, dark blue and clear studs then spread them all over the canal?

That would give you a really cool looking water effect.

[CityBuilder]

Wow, really cool! I like how you remade the city corner bus in red, and your tram looks really good too.

[Yzalirk]

For this being for largest MOC yet, it's fantastic!

[mkeller234]

Awesome. I really like the payphone and the signature on the back!

[SeptemLego]

Very nice layout! Looks very clear and well planned.