mikaelsol

I've been collecting vintage town LEGO a bit like a side interest to my MOCing. Finally cleared out some space on our attic, so I can build a classic LEGO town layout. It's based on the layout for the promotional image that was used in set 300, but I'm modernizing with other sets, and then I will start with some landscaping, adding curbs and so on. Here's the first video in this series about Old Soltown.

Thank you! Yeah, it's such an amazing set!

Wow! This is so amazing! I loved the comic books back in the 90's.

Thanks, mate! More is in the works! I'm working on a mountain, and using an IKEA table as a base, but also LEGO IKEA Bygglek boxes to build the skeleton of the mountain. This will be clad in bricks, plates etc.

So I've moved to a new house and got myself a LEGO room where I'm building a town ... well, that's not the whole story. Besides the town I really want to venture out into landscaping and railroad model layouts, so that's what I'm going to aim for with this new "town" layout of mine. I'm documenting the process in video format because I just prefer to show my builds that way. Here's the start of the new layout.

Happy Sunday, my dear adult friends of the LEGO brick. I want to have more tracks in my layout than I actually can fit, so I'm cheating a bit by putting in suggestions of larger rail systems. In this video I started the build for the tram slutstation!

I've been selling and moving houses the last couple of months, so haven't been able to build or film anything, but now I'm back :) Most of us probably have those bins of LEGO with half disassembled builds and that kinda nonsense. I figured it would be fun to display some of that stuff in my layout, but how? A LEGO scrapyard of course! Here's the video:

I try to keep my city as custom as possible. If I don't make my own designs, I modify existing sets. Here's a tour of my previous layout: I'm currently working on a new layout that will have some landscaping as well (a mountain, a river, a farm etc):

Hi peeps of the world, (Disclaimer: I'm not saying that it's bad to just be happy with building the sets as they are) A thing I've been contemplating over is the shift that I would say has happened in recent years where the AFOL hobby was a creative hobby with large focus on MOC:s, and now more has shifted over to buying, building and placing expensive sets. I still think that all those creative AFOLs are around, but that they're/we are being overshadowed by those who are happy with just building sets. I notice this on different social media platforms. On YouTube the buying and placing channels gets more views than the MOC channels, and the same with likes on instagram. In Facebook groups there's a lot of focus on "look at what I bought" and "look what you can buy". A friend of mine has noticed this pattern in other areas. She knitted a sweater for her child, and her friends where very impressed by this. Her sentiment was that today we confuse consumerism with creativity. If I speak for myself, I started collecting Star Wars LEGO back in 1999. For many years we didn't really have a large range of sets from Star Wars, so we had to build or own MOC's to compensate for that, and I would say that it's from that era that communities like Eurobricks, from bricks to bothans etc grew from. These days LEGO is catering to so many different franchises and pushing out more sets than ever, and maybe the price for this is a lower interest for personal expression and MOCs. Or am I just hanging out on the wrong platforms? What are your thoughts about this?

During the winter break I took my old layout apart and put in more tables, starting Soltown 2.0. I'm going to keep my videos of the progress in this thread. My goal for 2021 is to expand on the lore of Soltown, so some of them will have unexpected storylines and twists. The first video I would like to show you centers around the Devil's gap ravine. I've made a train bridge over it, and a small landscape below. It hides a fun crook hideout with dangerous terrorists dressed as the classic "forrest men" (also know as Robin Hood-folks, when I was little).

Thank you! It's a bit hard to have place for all the sets in my collection, so I figured that it was time to start taking sets apart and use in some other ways. But I do feel guilty every time I do it... :) Here's a full tour of Soltown. I don't talk in this video, but I hope to make a newer tour soon where I talk about stuff in the layout. Takes a bit of time to prepare a script since I'm not native English speaker.

I've started to add background buildings for the layout. A way to add depth to my LEGO city.

Yo mates, Well, I just couldn't keep set 60197 intact. I had to use the parts to create a subway train but one that uses kinda the same colors as the original LEGO set train. Here's a video of how I built the train.

Every civilized part of the world needs a shopping mall, so finally the government can proudly introduce Soltowns very own mall to you! YAY!

In this video I start to work on covering one of the open sides of the train tunnel with facades for my custom LEGO city town layout.

Öresundstågen is a train that traffics Denmark and Sweden. Now, a some of us have a lot of the new road plate system (I have 14 of that set), but haven't used all the slopes it comes with, so what to do with them? Well, I made an Öresundstågen train inspired MOC as an experiment. Video with the process.

Hi y'all, I've always loved shopping malls, so I converted LEGO Friends set 41450 to fit in a modest looking building, that hides a colorful interior. Here's a video of the build.

Hej vänner! My local IKEA here on the west coast of Schweden finally got the Bygglek boxes back in stock, so I bought two new ones of each size. This made it possible for me to build an apartment in the largest of the boxes. The design is inspired by my real life apartment (no LEGO room in this layout though....). Lots of fun details!

Thank you! :) 🙏

Shalom! (I always forget how to upload photos so they can be inserted here in an easy way, sorry kids!) Anyhouse, there's not a lot of LEGO synagogues out there, so I decided to build my own, and here's a video of that process, where I show you all the different parts and a little bit of what they represent.

Ever since LEGO released the bonsai tree I felt the need to have it in my city layout and now I finally got around to getting this beautiful set. Around it I've created a small but cozy piazza. Of course with the pink frogs...

Train time! Well, at least I've finally gotten around to raise this part of Soltown that holds the train tunnel entrance. It was a super fun build, that I will continue in future updates, so make sure to stay tunned to the Sol Brick Show!

You are in the correct! Soltown finally has it's own Sheriff's office!

To be honest with you guys, I used to work at a comic book store in Stockholm, Sweden, when I was a struggling freelance artist back in the day. I recreated that building in LEGO form a couple of years ago, but I never did a proper interior ... UNTIL NOW!! So here's the build show:

Soltown is currently investing in the future of the city, so they've modded set 41682 Heartlake City School to fit into the town layout.