Sailing through MapLand

[Kai NRG]

I think this is the right forum for this. At least, I hope so.

A loose recreation of the LEGO 2x2 map tile.

Anchors aweigh!

X marks the spot.

This build was a ton of fun - I love this sort of scale and working with bright colors was a blast!

C&C welcome!

Thanks for looking!

[soccerkid6]

I built a map of a LEGO printed tile before myself, but yours is way cooler I love the ship, and you did a very good job with the landmass shaping

[dr_spock]

Cool 2D with 3D effect map. Is there any real treasure under the X?

[Cousarmy0001]

In the immortal words of IconaPop, "I LOVE IT!!! I DON'T CARE!!!"

[iammac]

Really clever! The anchor is just perfect. How often do you just sculpt out a map? Could you do one free-handed at all?

[Kai NRG]

I built a map of a LEGO printed tile before myself, but yours is way cooler I love the ship, and you did a very good job with the landmass shaping

Thanks SK!

Cool 2D with 3D effect map. Is there any real treasure under the X?

Thank you!

Now why didn't I think of that?! Nope, there's no treasure under the X, unfortunately.

In the immortal words of IconaPop, "I LOVE IT!!! I DON'T CARE!!!"

Really clever! The anchor is just perfect. How often do you just sculpt out a map? Could you do one free-handed at all?

Thank you! This is the first time I've done this sort of thing with bricks. I think I've free-handed drawn a few maps but not very often. I imagine I could free-hand a couple landmasses like this easily enough (in fact I've though about doing a few free-hand maps in this style) - in general I find semi realistic landmasses easy to free-hand (whether with bricks, digitally, or on paper). But I don't usually have any particular reason to just sit down and draw maps of nothing.

[Staslegomaster]

I think Lego.com pirate 2015 set was like a 3D map. But yours is much better and the ship is nice.

[Garmadon]

Awesome map Kai, love the colors here, and you really nailed the textures too! The compass(es), ship, anchor, and strings add a lot to this as well!

[mitchlt]

This is so cool. I was just admiring this very tile the other day as I was putting the final touches on my wall art. This might be my favourite tile.. right up there with the blue wizards scroll. Soooo cool to see it in full scale.

[iammac]

Kai NRG,

I'm not sure if you would be interested in this, but would you be inclined to draw up a random map for my own fictitious purposes? I'm afraid I can't ever accept what I come up with due to the sheer randomness I need. Eventually I would like to draw up a map of a whole new planet, consisting of twelve or thirteen land masses. I'm sure I could use whatever you come up with for an upcoming project. I promise I will cite you in the credits when it is finally done...Does that make any sense?

I like the way you draw up maps!

[Kai NRG]

I think Lego.com pirate 2015 set was like a 3D map. But yours is much better and the ship is nice.

Thank you!

Awesome map Kai, love the colors here, and you really nailed the textures too! The compass(es), ship, anchor, and strings add a lot to this as well!

Thanks Garmadon! These colors were fun to work with!

This is so cool. I was just admiring this very tile the other day as I was putting the final touches on my wall art. This might be my favourite tile.. right up there with the blue wizards scroll. Soooo cool to see it in full scale.

Thank you! Yes, I really like this map tile as well... great colors and detail on it is really awesome.

Kai NRG,

I'm not sure if you would be interested in this, but would you be inclined to draw up a random map for my own fictitious purposes? I'm afraid I can't ever accept what I come up with due to the sheer randomness I need. Eventually I would like to draw up a map of a whole new planet, consisting of twelve or thirteen land masses. I'm sure I could use whatever you come up with for an upcoming project. I promise I will cite you in the credits when it is finally done...Does that make any sense?

I like the way you draw up maps!

PMed you!

[Captain Braunsfeld]

Very good that is.

And clever

[Kai NRG]

Very good that is.

And clever

Thank you!

[Capt Wolf]

This looks like a fun build! I like the partial relief of the map, the micro ship, and the compass. I may steal the anchor design for a ship's stern decoration I'm working on.

[Kai NRG]

This looks like a fun build! I like the partial relief of the map, the micro ship, and the compass. I may steal the anchor design for a ship's stern decoration I'm working on.

Thanks Capt Wolf! It definitely was a really fun build. I've been considering doing another one in fact... hard to find time though! You're welcome to use that anchor design... it was one of those things that just "clicked" right together and looked great!