Eurobricks Town Community Build

[Basiliscus]

Tiles? Really guys? Don't you realise: 1. They're not nearly as much in supply for the average builder 2. Nothing will be able to stand on the sidewalk

Yes they may look better, but is that worth everyone participating with a limited supply having to immediately visit BL?

I appreciate your concerns but the great thing is that because the buildings are distinct from the pavement then you can still produce a building without having ANY tiles. So don't rule yourself out yet!

Having a jumper plate every other tile, may actually limit the action that can be created in street scenes...

We could also use 1x1 plates interspersed in the tiles to give us more options. However, the seams between the tiles may have a strange appearance.

[Brickthing]

In regards to Option 1 and Option 2 that Teddy has proposed, I've got some pros and cons for both, and I'm not sure where to lean:

With Option 1, the goodness is that the footpaths will not be essential for a member to contribute a module. If they don't have the titles, they can build their module starting from the edge of the plate, and if they do have the tiles, then they can build their own road section to fit with their building module. Another good reason for Option 1 is that at conventions, one person who has grey tiles and baseplates coming out of their ears can make a whole set of standard matching baseplates with their footpaths to take along, while other people only need to bring their individual modules. That way, the city streets will be much more consistent than if everybody built their own footpaths on their modules, which will improve the looks of streets quite a bit. The final good reason for Option 1 is the obvious one, which is that there will be proper LEGO roads instead of "imagined" roads that seem to be necessary with Option 2.

However, the badness of Option 1 is that it will limit the interaction the street has with the building, because there can't be balconies overhanging the footpath, because the footpath and buildings are not connected. Also, Option 1 means that the road plates will be difficult to modularily connect to each other and the adjacent buildings, because they are essentially flat roads with flat footpaths next to each other, and there won't be space for the modular connection points unless the footpaths are 4 plates high on either side. Another bad reason for Option 1, is that we will be limited to the size of the LEGO baseplates, which is very very bad news for any car wider than 5 studs. Also, the new dark bley road plates have printed gutters already, so unless we want to brasso our roadplates, double gutters are going to look silly. My final worry about Option 1 is that the curve road plates are pretty difficult to pave nicely, although I doubt we'll be using many curved plates in our Build will we?

As for Option 2, it's pretty much the opposite of what I said for Option 1, but I've typed enough already, so I'm not going to type it all out.

[Teddy]

Dear all,

personally I feel option 1 will be the most practical.

We could connect the roadplates via the tiles.

If a builder feels he should add a little extra pavement on his sector that will add to the realism .

As for balconies, I dont think that should be a problem given they dont have too much overhang (max 4 studs?) and are above the ground floor (at least 6 bricks above pavement level).

Kind regards,

Teddy

Edited March 4, 2009 by Teddy

[Hinckley]

However, the badness of Option 1 is that it will limit the interaction the street has with the building, because there can't be balconies overhanging the footpath, because the footpath and buildings are not connected.

I don't think it is limited. An overhang, if it really needs to connect to the juckfozzer, can temporarily connect to another baseplate until it arrives at this imaginary convention.

I propose we don't use curves.

I will focus a little more time on this when my projects have died down a bit. Right now, I'm very busy.

[Brickthing]

I propose we don't use curves.

I agree, but how will this work with the road basplates though? Unless we build footpaths over the third section of a T-Junction, there will be no way to make a self contained town.