(MOC) Modular street and furniture, because your town deserves so!

[alex54]

So, I’m glad to share with you another step pf my town layout story.

This time, it’s not about houses, but street sections.

After spending a lot of time on my buildings, I decided to take a moment on the streets. In fact, a city couldn’t be a great city without public furniture, flowers and roads !

In 2009, remember, I have already work on the pavement of my street. In fact, I don’t like how TLC made the pavements in the modular buildings line. And with LEGO, you can change what you don’t like ! So I have found a module, that used upside-down gives a more random look, even if it’s a regular module :

But with all the modulars I have, with the official ones and my owns, I need a lot of straight road. And damned, TLC send only one straight with a crossed one. Damned, I will have a lot of crossed road, without any utility.

So, some straight roads, I hurt my fingers with all of those dark grey tiles to put on !

Hopefully, I have some 1x2 plates to put too, and 2x2 tile with one centered stud.

In fact, I want to have some modular road plates, with which you can put some street furniture and so on, without any effort.

The 1x2 plates on each sides are here to attache the road sections between them, with a street lamp for example. And the other studs can fix flowers, garbage, fire hydrant and so on.

The result of the street sections is for a crossed one :

And for a straight one :

After that, I worked on bus station, which need to be not too big and not too small to feet in the street. After some works and tries, I came up this this bus stop :

I also made some garbage :

Fire hydrants, simple but enough effective for me (some times, simplicity is your best friend!) :

I need to put some touch of green in my town. Those flowerpot will help a little :

Like those other flowers sections, in two kind of colors, for more diversity :

Seeing the Gostbuster headquarters, I find the traffic light great and effective. So, I decided to duplicate it. I just add some flowers for a greener street and that’s all ! And without forgetting some traffic lights for pedestrians and other road signs :

I also need some benches, and find a nice way to make them one day on a picture of a moc (don’t remember the source…), so I decided to reproduce them, Now, my minifigs can sit and have a quiet moment !

And I have enough white street lamps to fix all my road plates together. But I fall in love with a black version, from New Elementary,and couldn’t resist to reproduce them as well.

Don’t you find them beautiful ?

Just note that the base of the street lamp ha changed, with only 4 notches instead of the 6 for the older version, making it less beautiful IMO.

 

And what a street without some trees? TLC never bring me some decent beautiful trees. It’s not that easy to make some nice ones, enough sturdy with a nice look.

I have made some tries some years ago, remember, with those kind of trees :

Time has past and TLC bring us a so wonderful part, like the new stalk piece ref 19119.

Maybe it’s one of my favorite new part from 2015! So I tried to use this, and made a lot of versions. In fact, I wanted to build a tree that is enough sturdy, without small parts falling down (even if we are in autumn ^^!). And I’m quite happy with the result!

Now it’s time to show you how all those elements go together. I have taken some pics to do so. Just note that I don’t have put some corner buildings just only because I don’t take the time to find them in my boxes.

Firstly, some pics with one of all the element presented above :

And finally, some pics with a touche of life, with some minifigs and cars, just to see how it looks in situation :

So, this is just 1/3 of all my road plates I have made this way. We can image to have some other element to put in the street, like newspaper boxes, little food stands, a phone box and more !

Just let your imagination works !

I just hope that you enjoyed reading this long post!

And you can discover some extra pics in my FlickR or Brickshelf galleries.

 

 

[Capparezza]

This is plain awesome. The snotting on the bus stop looks incredible (up-side down seat!) and the new trees are very very nice

[finnbricker]

Wonderful! The black lamp post is my favorite. All these details add so much to the sidewalks. Great job!

[ReplicaOfLife]

Very nice. Some great ideas there!

[Mr Greeble]

Some cool ideas here! The street looks very modern, I might have to steal borrow a few ideas. 

[Dazz]

Thanks for sharing your photos. This is very inspiring!

[Phoxtane]

I'm definitely keeping an eye on these. It's perfect!

[Zork]

you gave me confidence to do the traffic lights like in the Ghostbusters set. I wasn't sure how it wold look like on a crossroad but thanks to your pics, I now know. 

appreciate it!

[eiker86]

Awesome city details :) Love thoose trees and flower sections..  

Thanks for sharing :) 

[KotZ]

Looks great! I like how open the streets now feel and big for adult hands to reach!

[Vorkosigan]

Great detailing! A very appealing and realistic street. 

[Man with a hat]

That's all very very nice!

Those flower pots and trees are awesome. I might try that myself.

[AFOLguy1970]

It certainly adds realism to the row of modulars.  I like all the original building designs as well.  The streetlamps are really nice in addition to the other features.  Agreed that it is a shame the only way to get a straight road plate is to buy it with the intersection.  it would not be a problem if there was an intersection at every other plate 

[Delbaerov]

Awesome pieces of street furniture!

Not sure if it is this way where you live, but for me, the traffic light is often on the opposite end of the intersection so that it is visible to the car that is right at the intersection

[carebear]

Love this!!!

Great Idea's

thanks for sharing

Greetings

[Borex]

I love the simple things, like the pedestrian buttons and the flowers on the traffic light. It gives it a more realistic and lively vibe. It looks really good all together

[alex54]

Thanks for you comments!

 

18 hours ago, Delbaerov said:

Not sure if it is this way where you live, but for me, the traffic light is often on the opposite end of the intersection so that it is visible to the car that is right at the intersection

Here if France, it's like that, The traffic light is at the font of the intersection. I know that it's not like that in Canada.

 

[aukevin]

You did a great job here.  This is something I definitely want to add to my town.

[Wodanis]

I really like the flower beds and the tree designs! I would love to incorporate them into my town. How are the tree leaves connected to the base? 

[Wout]

This looks great, especially the lampposts and the flowerbeds.

I took the time to look in your older posts and it was nice to see how your town evolved over time.

[Kristel]

Lots to like here!  My favourites are the pavement, which is much more interesting than the standard 2x2s grid pattern, and the trees.  I also like the use of the seat on its side for the bus stop.

[WhiteFang]

Nice one, Alex. I like how those small little detailed builts being put together to beautify your city layout. I love the pot of plants, street lamps and the trees very much. 

[henkderbob]

Thanks! I think I´ll start with something like your sidewalk!

[alex54]

Thanks fot the last comments! ^^

In fact Wout, my city is always under modification! And always lakes some interiors details...

[Brent and Halfdan]

Got some ideas for my own streets. Thank you for sharing!