Is miniature still cool for story-builds that are "complex"?

[Yzalirk]

So, I want to create this Steampunk storyline with builds that would be complex, for instance, something like this. Clearly that is way too complex to build. Would it still be a good idea to make miniature airships like that and if I decided to do close-ups of minifigs that would be on the deck of an airships to make the actually deck that would be pictured to be there? Usually I'm not the type of guy who does miniature builds because I like to show minifigs and such but would you guys be interested in something like this?

When doing this, though, I'll have builds like rooms and such that would be shown in the airships, like I somewhat said above. Larger builds with minifigs would be the "magnified" version of the miniature part, like the deck with cannons and the wooden plank flooring and more.

[Lind Whisperer]

That's a perfectly fine way to tell your story - just make sure the features of your miniatures more or less match up with your full-scale sets, and you'll be fine.

Is this for Heroica, or for a unique story?

[Slegengr]

That's a perfectly fine way to tell your story - just make sure the features of your miniatures more or less match up with your full-scale sets, and you'll be fine.

I agree. Micro builds work great with detail builds to tell a story as long as they match well enough to keep it believable that the micro-build is the 'same' as the minifigure-scale build.

[Yzalirk]

That's a perfectly fine way to tell your story - just make sure the features of your miniatures more or less match up with your full-scale sets, and you'll be fine.

Is this for Heroica, or for a unique story?

I agree. Micro builds work great with detail builds to tell a story as long as they match well enough to keep it believable that the micro-build is the 'same' as the minifigure-scale build.

Okay, thanks guys!

I don't want to produce something that wouldn't interest other users so I was on the fence about combining both minifig-scale builds with miniature-scale builds to simply save space and create a unique story with a somewhat rather small connection compared to most collectors since I haven't been collecting in over 5 years until mid September of last year. (2014)

@Lind Whisperer - Since you asked, I'd like to say both but mainly for my own story that I plan to create and share based in a Steampunk distopian society where there is segregation in a way. I want to head in the direction of Bioshock: Infinite as well with "A World of Steam" but not copy everything you'd see in it. So I mean there will be airships, Victorian era architecture, unique automatons and machines, pretty much everything that is standard in the genre. But the story is still a WIP considering I don't want it to feel like a miserable place all the time but every story has those moments.

[Faefrost]

Yeah you don't need to make the outer ship minifig scale. That just gets crazy. Heck the basic design of that ship is probably not that bad if you scale it to be about the same size as some of the Star Wars ships.

[Phoxtane]

You could probably use one of the Hero Factory or Bionicle masks for the front of the ship as well, giving you a scale to build the rest of the airship to.