Have you ever wanted to start your own LEGO city layout? It can be a bit overwhelming, but here are 10 tips and tricks for how you can get started on your own LEGO city.
Your city is certainly one of the best I've found on RU-vid and definitely better than some channels that have a lot more subscribers. The thing I like most about you city is how you have managed to pack so much into a relatively small space. The use of levels has really added some great dimensions to your city
Thank you! I like the challenge of the small space, but also it makes it less overwhelming to work on. It's also interesting to think that I could probably fit 9 modulars in that space and roadplates to them, and that would be the whole layout.
Great tips there! Especially the one you only touched on a little bit: Trains. What I see a lot of people do is just create a train loop that goes around their layout. That works if you have a theme park and the only point of the train is looking at the city - especially if you only have room to build one station. In reality, trains generally don't go around places but from one place to another. You keep that illusion up very nicely by hiding about half the track in a tunnel. The other thing that bothers me is that Lego train tracks have a very tight radius on their curves. It just looks odd for a big train to basically go around a corner. Hiding most of those curve pieces behind the scenery is also usually a good idea.
Awesome tricks. I just started few months ago with the New Road Plates. I love the New Road system since you can modify it more. My main is focus on a Port City. The Deep Exploration Ship is on my city but i converted into a cargo ship by covering the open in the middle😄 hello from Japan.😊🗾
I love it! Tips are great. I have little time for my own lego at the moment so Soltown keeps my lego brain happy. But who knows, maybe when I retire I can convert the loft into a room and start my own lego world.
I've begun building a city for a villain faction I made. For the time being, I'm building it as a color pallet swapped version of the Ninjago City sets
@@Solbrick i was originally going for black, gunmetal, gold, and trans pink with accents of dark grey, dark blue, and purple, but gunmetal and dark grey ended up trading levels of importance
I use the table tops Linnmon from IKEA. I don't think they make them in these dimensions anymore though. And then I have them om the Malm drawers from IKEA with supporting legs at the back.
The best tip though is just to start. I put of starting a LEGO RU-vid channel for about 8 years, and the same probably goes for many lego city layouts that people dream of.
controversial opinion, but if you had a late start to lego, like myself, almost 40 years old, my connection is very small, and i dont have the budget to pick up so many sets. So i bought the big pieces that i really wanted, and then all the other sets I've purchased from ali baba for a fraction of the price. also all of my mils plates are lepin. each mils plate only costs around $2-5 in total, and then its covered in real lego.
I beleive this city needs security. International community (Lego Group) may condemn it but security of the motherland is important too maybe american embassy can offer some things for sale
Cool looking compact city man my first Lego City was in my bed room from floor legal up. Right up to my bed but I had to move house. I live hour you got different level s not just flat level. I did same ..an building up an hill top with house up high an cliff tops. Give s more space to add building s plus add s deth an more Sean land scap to the city ...yer my first city grew as big as yours in one year. An now at new place I only got three big food out table s. For my Lego City. But trying to fitt in lots. ..
Great video! And I believe it is THE LOVE of money that is the root of all evil, not money itself 😁 I like your train tips in particular as it is always tricky to incorporate a train into a layout without sacrificing a lot of real estate!
Cleaning is the worst part of Lego collecting. Wait. You love your family more than Lego? Isnt that illegal? XD Also I had no idea you are a cartoonist! I wish I had your books!
My problem is, everything I want to include in a city/state takes up a lot of room. I've prioritized my airport which takes up 70% of my space, but I also want farmland, a forest and a harbor. The only way for me to accomplish this without moving to a different space would be to give up half of my airport space and find a home on shelves for all the airplanes. But then, there goes the scene of a busy airport apron. This seems to be a common issue which is why I rarely see airports in Lego cities and when I do, their proportions bother me.
They do indeed take up a lot of space. I would love to have farms, forests, mountains and a large lake one day, but that really means getting some sort of large studio space or something.
Could to multiple layers just like how people do underwater and subway. I'm planning on doing this for my city in the future, the top of the table is the main city and below is another city set in the gloomy night where the crooks come out to play.
Kul projekt! Jag brukar vänta lite tills stora butiker som ICA Maxi och Coop har reor på över 25 %, och så bor jag nära en Lekia outlet som är något billigare än normala priset. Men annars är det Amazon som oftast har bäst pris. Gekås i Ullared har också låga priser om man har nära till dem. Men överlag är LEGO en dyr hobby. Mitt främsta tips är egentligen att samla under hela livet, men bygger man med sitt barn har man ju inte riktigt den tiden.
