Model Road Baseplates

[zeki]

As cities grow bigger, it seems to me they lose their realism due to very small choice when it comes to road baseplets. We have then only 2 options, modifing basepates or brick building road, which does take a ton of time and money.

I've started working on a project to create custom road baseplates and would like to see if anyone else is interested in such product. I've designed a small Survey if anyone seems interested.

Thanks and best regards.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/7R5GK8Q

[emilstorm]

I very much welcome the idea. I have some issues with the available road base plates, mainly that the roads are too narrow, the pretty much only work with 4 wide vehicles, particularly when it comes to corners. But you would probably have to go to 48x48 base plates to fix the problem i have, and then a cityscape would become huge, so i don't know if it is something you are considering for your project.

Edit: I have done the survey and made some suggestions

Edited May 25, 2014 by emilstorm

[TheLegGodt]

I 'tile' build roades 10 studs wide. I make them one-way roads. I don't aim for realism but for what is aesthetically pleasing. I see roads as a backdrop for viewing lego built vehicles. Road base plates just don't do it for me and are not stud-conomical.

[zeki]

I've created some basic design what the road segments could look like. No colors so far only geometry.

The size of the element is 1024mm x 1024mm or 4x4 standard baseplates. Multilane Crossroad.

And a bus station measuring 64x64 studs. In the center of two roads there is meant to be grass island for lamp posts.

Edited May 27, 2014 by zeki

[lightningtiger]

I like it......actually I forgot to say in the survey......country roads, yeah roads in the country are different to those in the city.

[zeki]

Another detail ask for in survey... parking lot size 48x48 studs. Enjoy