What do you use as "sea"

[ks6349]

At the outer side of my Lego city, I would like to make a "sea" and a "beach", what do you use as a "sea" and the beach , blue plate only? Any other ideas?

[Sinthoras]

Check this video at 1:17, there is a motorized beach scene.

 

Edited July 3, 2019 by Sinthoras

[Peppermint_M]

How deep do you want your sea to be?

If you just want a suggestion of water, anything from simple blue cloth/paper to baseplates would work. If you want your sea to have "texture" from waves etc, you'll need to use plates and slopes to build a sea.

I have also seen people use clear perspex sheets, so that there can be underwater scenes.

[Vindicare]

I just used blue & tan baseplates. Then plates of different sizes to give the beach a more textured look.  What I like that people do is make a line or two of dark tan plates on the edge of the sand to look like it’s wet sand.

Then if you want to get trickier you can mimic what was done in the Ninjago City/Docks sets. That looks really good, but is a lot more expensive than the simpler baseplates. 

[MAB]

It depends on what you want to do with it.

From least to most expensive ...

Blue paper. Or blue cloth. Or get a wooden board and paint it. Or use baseplates. Or loose 1x1 round tiles in shades of blue and trans-blues. Or brick build one.

 

[ks6349]

On 7/3/2019 at 2:36 PM, Sinthoras said:

Check this video at 1:17, there is a motorized beach scene.

 

How did they create the coastline ? and what LEGO did they use to create the beach in pale brown color? Looks like there is no brown base

plate... The video is not close enough

[Peppermint_M]

5 minutes ago, ks6349 said:

How did they create the coastline ? and what LEGO did they use to create the beach in pale brown color? Looks like there is no brown base

plate... The video is not close enough

It looks like a number of tiles and slopes in Dark Tan colour, mixed with Tan tiles and slopes. That kind of build takes a lot of parts to build. It is built up from many layers with only the very top made to look like sand.

A tan baseplate and blue baseplate are the easiest way to  make a beach and sea from Lego. But if you use smaller parts of different shapes, you can add a texture to the landscape. 

Blue paper is easiest, especially if the reason for a sea is a place to show boats, it makes the Lego ship the focus,  not a built sea.

[Roadmonkeytj]

Blue base with trans tiles or studs over.

Add waves with raised trans clear slopes 

The beach starts with a layer of dk tan then a few studs back regular tan

A few trans clear against the dk tan give the idea of tide.

 

[ks6349]

what 's the best price you got an authentic Lego blue plate?

[MAB]

I bought a used 16x32 one on Saturday for 10p at a car boot sale.

[Cylo]

You could get a box and fill it with trans blue 1x1 studs, or you can us SNOT and build it sideways.

[LEGO Historian]

For a pond, or even a canal/river few things beat blue Homemaker 24x24 baseplates.  They have a nice textured water-like surface, and are surrounded on 3 sides by 2 rows of studs...

https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=367#T=C

A little pricier are the blue Homemaker 24x32 baseplates, for making a wider 32 stud waterway... 

https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=785#T=C

[Roadmonkeytj]

On 7/24/2019 at 5:51 PM, ks6349 said:

what 's the best price you got an authentic Lego blue plate?

98 cents from K-Mart in 1989