Smaller scale towns

[Electricsteam]

Anyone have any tips for smaller scale towns? I love the modular I love all the different city sets but I would love to make a town of my own with much smaller buildings. Instead of those massive full plate modular I really want to have things around the 16x plate size and so on. Any idea how I could make a town of smaller home and shops look nice? Does anyone have example of some smaller Lego cities?

Already have a small train and a small mobile police station for it at least.

[ER0L]

I was thinking of Jonathan Lopes' work, however, the scale seems to be considerably smaller than yours. Quite inspiring anyway:

http://www.moc-pages...lder.php/143178

[Humdrum]

I'm not 100% certain if this is what you're looking for, but I like greg3's Ballabreek layout: Ballabreek 2016.

It doesn't have the classic modular street layout, instead it has a lot of smaller nicely fleshed out buildings.

I'm contemplating building a small city myself, and some unpolished ideas I have at the moment:

- expanding the shops in 60097 City Square a bit, to fit the 16x16 baseplate size you mentioned.

- modding the 31026 Bike Shop & Cafe into a bigger (but not full size) modular kind of building

- adding some of my 1980's collection buildings

- moc-ing some smaller buildings

- ... there's a lot you can do without having to move into the modular sized projects straight away.

Here are some more small city projects I found on Eurobricks:

- child's play layout by Adamskii: link

- city layout by Peteris_Sprogis: link

In any case if you google 'eurobricks small lego layout' or 'eurobricks small city' or... you're bound to find

lots of pictures, ideas and forum threads.

Have fun building!

Edited March 15, 2016 by Humdrum

[Electricsteam]

I was thinking of Jonathan Lopes' work, however, the scale seems to be considerably smaller than yours. Quite inspiring anyway:

http://www.moc-pages...lder.php/143178

THOSE ARE ADORABLE

Also! There was a large layout back on train tech that I cannot find for the life of me... well it was a big layout full of smaller buildings like

This one I made here, all different sorts colors you name it. These little builds are really nice they look like a bigger structure.. but not!

[gotoAndLego]

This isn't a bad idea. As much as I like the modulars, and I do, they are def not mini-fig scale. It would be interesting to standardize the actual scale around minifies and you could easily build three or four of these from one modular set, especially if you leave the sides open. And if you have them arranged in a layout, why would you need sides if its a single structure without removable floors. The main thing to make this happen would be the brick build the windows and doors, because the standard Lego door is not mining scale.

Edited March 16, 2016 by gotoAndLego