I made my first mils !

[Max_2_0]

(before starting, I would like to point out that I am French, so I apologize in advance for any potential grammatical errors)
I saw a lot of videos on mils and modular lighting which convinced me to start using this construction technique for my city and indeed, after a good 2 hours of gathering the necessary parts and laying the sidewalk tiles modular on my mils plate, I am very satisfied with the result.

I opted for mils made with 4x4 plates but I have a question, is it better to put a 1x1 or a 2x2 in the corners?

 

and I'm already scared at the idea of making my station which is 96x64 in mils

Edited July 10, 2024 by Max_2_0

[JopieK]

Very nice @Max_2_0. I am also adding MILS to everything and has been very handy so far.

[Max_2_0]

did you add LEDs @JopieK? personally I plan to do it and this is partly the reason why I decided to make mils, I am thinking of ordering LEDs on AliExpress because the prices on sites like lightmybricks are much too high for my budget

[JopieK]

Not yet, but in the end I think I will. The ideas that others have for magnetic connectors are also very nice. But as I will integrate turnouts / servo's and controllers I'm still not sure what to choose (especially on the IoT side).

[MAB]

These deviate quite a lot from the original MILS system. I remember reading hispabrick when MILS was being developed and there are really quite strict rules about design and boundaries so that MILS plates can be used in a collaborative way. And it was designed for landscapes (L). So many people are now using them for City and Modular builds, I wonder if now I the time for MICS (Cuty), with rules for joining pavements and roads across boundaries.

Of course, for personal rather than collaborative use, standards are less if an issue but I've seen so many youtubers doing their own versions that could never be used in a collaborative way that the original system was designed for.

[Max_2_0]

@MAB Do you have an image of what a normal MILS should look like? because I tried to base myself on lots of things that I saw without ever having a real standard anywhere, and I would precisely like to make a video on the subject of MILS, so if I could avoid saying anything What

[Yperio_Bricks]

2 hours ago, Max_2_0 said:

@MAB Do you have an image of what a normal MILS should look like? because I tried to base myself on lots of things that I saw without ever having a real standard anywhere, and I would precisely like to make a video on the subject of MILS, so if I could avoid saying anything What

Here are two websites you might want to check out:

https://www.abellon.net/MILS/

http://l-gauge.org/wiki/index.php/Modular_Standards

[MAB]

3 hours ago, Max_2_0 said:

@MAB Do you have an image of what a normal MILS should look like? because I tried to base myself on lots of things that I saw without ever having a real standard anywhere, and I would precisely like to make a video on the subject of MILS, so if I could avoid saying anything What

Sorry, it wasn't really aimed at yours in particular so my comment is possibly out of place. Yours looks pretty much the standard modular on a MILS base. Elsewhere, a number of people are calling their City designs MILS but have variable width roads and paths or roads that are not centred at so on. The modulars are fairly consistent so naturally fit together reasonably well. 

[Max_2_0]

2 hours ago, Yperio_Bricks said:

Here are two websites you might want to check out:

https://www.abellon.net/MILS/

http://l-gauge.org/wiki/index.php/Modular_Standards

thank you very much :D !!!

54 minutes ago, MAB said:

Sorry, it wasn't really aimed at yours in particular so my comment is possibly out of place. Yours looks pretty much the standard modular on a MILS base. Elsewhere, a number of people are calling their City designs MILS but have variable width roads and paths or roads that are not centred at so on. The modulars are fairly consistent so naturally fit together reasonably well. 

ok I see what you meant, because I saw a lot of people on youtube saying that we could make MILS in 32x32 or 16x32, and I thought that was true (especially because of the modulars that separate like the petshop , or the bookstore, or even larger ones in 48x32 like with the ghostbusters headquarters or the modular museum), my station being 96x64, I thought of basing myself on a system which in the end acts as if it grouped 6 baseplates. but as said, I see what you meant and your comment was not inappropriate on the contrary, everyone has the right to give their opinion :)