From what I recall, cows almost always face the same way, away from the wind, so having them on grid might not be too bad. Also, you could add in an easter egg by having the airport wind vane face in the same direction as the cows.
That angled wood storage area that you place at 3:15 would also be a fantastic technique for building an information board / display like the kind you find in parks or zoo's telling people more information about the area or what's in front of them.
Great! If you are extending the field more i think an old combine harvester and a tractor with a trailer doing work would fit there quite nicely. It would fit into the rural feel very well
Yeah. He mentioned doubling or tripling the field size and I immediately thought that would look kind of boring and you could have part of it cut down with a combine harvester in the middle and haybales lying around the cut down field.
For your cows: Have one of them grazing through the fence, as in it's head between the top and bottom cable, possibly stretching the cable. It will be very realistic, as that is what cows do, and they do it because they can, because they are cows.
For your cow problem: use flat tiles under the cow, just enough to put it at an angle, not enough so it looks like an odd bare spot where it stands. It would achieve the desired angle, without the odd height and stud.
I feel like, if your wheat field becomes any larger, you might benefit from placing some minifigs trampling a path through the stalks of wheat to provide a little visual variety to the region.
If you want to position the cow freely, just attach one of those green single round studs onto its foot and have it pivoted on a -1 stud gradient of lower elevation. It will blend in as if it's a random grass clod.
Another option would be to use flat bricks where the studs would otherwise make it impossible to have the cow at an angle, and still only attach it on one foot. it will at least not be floating.
One thing I noticed is that your city really lacks some smaller critters. I'd love to see some frogs, spiders and snakes luring in the grassy plains you've built!
Wonderful update! I feel like it would look better with the scarecrow in a little clearing in the middle of the wheat field, especially once the field is bigger.
@@nimchimsky5125 Agreed! And if they have little single pc birds/ravens I think some of those should be place nearby, like on a fencepost or house roof
Usually, I see scarecrows in the middle of fields, and also an axe instead of a chainsaw might be nice. As a gardener, it would be really cool to have a garden for the farm. Loved the update!
I was just thinking about how much I was looking forward to an update last night! A great surprise for today. I love the new spacing on the new wheat field-- it looks much more organic.
For a little scene, putting a harvester in the wheat field would look really cool. It could have already harvested some of the wheat and left the stalks and chaff for collection later! Awesome video again!! Love this channel!
One of the nice things about this series being built in a studio which isn't planning to move is that you get to see lots of building techniques people building for conventions and transport simply can't do, like the chains on the bridge and smaller details held down by gravity alone. It's a great way to get a new perspective on designing for your own permanent workspace.
Whenever there's a long gap between updates you know a good video is coming, and this one is great. The difference in the wheat field is fantastic, the visual really pays off for the amount of effort you put in.
Are you gonna put up a Christmas tree with LEDs in the city? I think it would be awesome at the market, at the harbor. It could be a Christmas market for the holidays.
I was just thinking about his channel yesterday too!😅 Man this guy is soooo good! I don't like it when peoples "city" is just a bunch of buildings with no thought or emotion behind them, this is not a "city", this is a state! Keep up the work, and long wait time equals big update!
Looks great as always!! The new weed field looks way more realistic. A lil idea: instead of tripling the field in size, you could maybe double it in size and add another smaller patch close by, a little bit deeper in the landscape. What I love about airial views of rural places is seeing the different colored squares (crops) dotted around the place, so adding a smaller patch close by may give that effect was my thinking. PS tnx for letting us hear the vacuming of those spilled pieces, very satisfying!!
Nice update! Maybe add a windturbine or solar panels to the rural area, the wind turbine could look pretty cool, since you can make it spin + add a few blinking signal lights that can be seen at night!
Hello! So, for the cow problem you could adjust green riles into the ground, so that it can stand in any position 😅 hope this helped, if you've thought of it and it didn't work let me know in case I can help
for the cow problem - you could set a turntable piece with a 6x2 green plate on top of it and angle it across some studless green plates so the cow is facing the direction you want
I think it would be really neat to have the further wheat field also on a bit of a hill! To give it more dimension, but also I just really love when fields are on hills in real life, they look really cool.
Great video and love the wheat field but I have to ask how you handle the dust? Whenever I try to build mocs or larger builds, after a few days dust starts to get in all of the cracks and crevasses and is a nightmare to clean.
Such a sweet update. Do you plan to put something in the middle of a to-be-extended wheat field? Otherwise it can be a bit boring, no? Especially so close to the viewer. Maybe children/animals running through the field? Or having a picnic on the edge? Or a path going through the field, separating it in two?
This update was great. The field looks so much better where it is now. Are you going to add a fence round it? I also wondered about a couple of separate fields with different crops in it rather than one long one? However, you're the genius, so I'll like whatever you end up doing. Incredible work!
There were some really satisfying additions in this video. It's crazy what a little elevation can do for the variety of a scene. I love the stone bridge over the creek, I always try to build stuff like that in Minecraft. The illegal techniques really make it look great.
Path 3:22 it would be a great idea to add a small mud track between the two gates and maybe random ones for the the sheep. Grew up on various farms and between the livestock and us walking across fields there were always slightly sunken mud tracks across the fields. Plus gateways always had an arc of mud where animals would assemble before feeding time. And animals especially sheep always follow the same paths (habit!) Just would make it look much more realistic. But as always amazing work, using your river/foliage designs in my latest set mocs for stop motion animations
I usually watch YT vids at 150% speed (non-music). Not yours. The combo of your voice and building techniques is actually soothing. Very organic as you said. 👏
Bridge looks really cool! I think I enjoyed this update a lot more than some of the city ones, it makes a nice change. Also I don’t know how hard this would be but maybe getting English captions on your brickman brothers channel. It’s probably quite hard to do quickly and cheaply but still I enjoy watching them either way!
If you haven't noticed it yourself by now, you missed a 1x1 round when vacuuming - it's upside down, about 7-8 leaves downstream from the corner of the building :) Can be seen to the right, at the 5:12 mark. As for the cows; jumper plates and tiles, covered up by small amounts of vegetation, so as to not draw too much attention. Otherwise; great update as always! Cheers from Denmark ^^
For any future spills (though hopefully there are none) a sock over the end of the vacuum secured using an elastic is a great way to deal with this without the hassle of a full clean on the vacuum. It allows you to pick up small clumps and then directly deposit them into your containers.
The pastures, woods, and farmland looks like a paradise! I love all the details and it's nice to see some more plants and animals being placed front and center. I hope there will be more
I love that fence! If you don't like four bars, I wonder what three look like. I bet those sheep could escape, wait, do you think it would be funny to have some sheep in the process of escaping? I think it would add a little bit of a storyline for the sheep.
First time viewer of your channel! Cannot tell you how satisfying it is just as a watcher to see a plain green plate turn into a lush plot, I can only imagine how satisfying (and frustrating haha) it must be to have a long running project like this!
I can't get enough of this. I even accidentally found it in German...and I was excited..oh another RU-vidr like one of my favourites...nope just him in German. Simply the best Lego builder on RU-vid right now.
Some places do haunted Corn Mazes for halloween which could be a fun way to add life and color to the field as well as extend it with less of the just corn stalks. It could be a good way to use halloween style legos too.
Looking better each time! Been waiting for this update haha The only thing I'd suggest tho, is not connecting the bridge to the sheep pasture. I think it would look better if the pasture only had the one gate, and that path to city continued on right next to the pasture and over to the house. Would be kinda weird to cut through a sheep pasture in order to get to and from the city, I think..
For the cows, put one of those 2000 green 1x1 on the cows back foot so its slightly raised above and you can put them at any angle you want. Once you found the angle you want put a couple of flower stems in front of the cow for them to graze on and hide the fact that all fours arent touching the base :)
Would the path going across the bridge into the sheep pen make more sense going around the pen to the left? It's a path that connects the rural village with the main city and farmers wouldn't be too keen on strangers walking into their sheep pen. Just a thought, loving the project!
The rural areas look great! I love seeing how his building techniques improve. For the pasture, I think those cables would make really nice wattle fences, and that that could give the pasture a really nice organic feel?
It looks awesome! Also, I think a minifig sat under a tree, just strumming a guitar or reading a book, with a cat just sitting by would be a nice little addition
BTW for the fence, at least here in the states, it's pretty typical for livestock fencing to have 3 cables/wires/rails. 4 for larger or more aggressive animals. 2 is only typical for temporary electric fences.
Solution for the cow predicament, perhaps instead of having all of them free roam, perhaps some of them are lined up next to each other at a water trough? Or lined up at a fence getting milked.
common solution for the cow is either: 1. Use a jumper plate under the cow as a pivot 2. Put a stud in the middle of a 2x2 stud section on the plate, and then put 1 cow foot onto this stud, and use it as a pivot.
Great video! I have one suggestion: you change the design of the cobblestone bridge. Perhaps incorporate the rounded plates on the top if possible? It looks a little funky with how the chain sits on top, this could help smooth the shape out!
I've been watching your videos for a while now, and I have to say your ideas just keep getting better, hands down one of the best LEGO cities on RU-vid.
Some food for thought, you could use the 1x1 round plate with bar (79194) under one of the cow's legs to place it at a nice angle coming up or down a hill.
Idea for the 90 degree cow; 1x1 green stud under one leg, turn the cow in whatever angle you want and use 1x1 flat tiles under the other legs so it doesn't "float".
Maybe the cow problem is not a problem. Cows often walk in paralel lines when grazing, almost like a kind of military formation, so it would be perfectly realistic to just put them right next to each other facing the same way. They're herd animals so they don't just scatter randomly.
You can put a sock over the end of your vacuum hose and that will catch anything you are trying to pick up, then you can tap it on the edge of a container and they will fall out. Saves having to clean out the shop vac :)
Hello, for the cow, you have a space between the right feet of 5 studs, that means you can angle the right side at 4x3 studs, and the cow is maintained by 2 studs. You'll then need tile for the left side.
That's abosultely beautiful. As a child I always wanted to build a huge build like this but never had the bricks or the space. My favorite part is the elevation you added at the start, it looks so natural and nice. The train is a very close second favorite.
