![]() ![]() The half-plate stripe just under the warehouse’s roof is spectacular, as is the use of claws and horns to give the appearance of waves on Lake Michigan. The design here is spot-on, with a better translation to microscale than I thought possible. So, yes, at one time I was one of those 1×1 round tiles in Jonah Schultz’s microscale build, probably one of the lime green ones. But another was the first big post-graduation meet-up with friends from college to see the sights downtown, including the infamous Navy Pier. One memorable adventure was attending Brickworld in 2013 (my first LEGO convention). And during my four years there, I made plenty of trips to Chicago and its suburbs. We also recommend this book as a great introduction to how parts are used in microscale building.Ĭover photo ‘Cerulean City’ by BrickinNick on Flickr.While I may be a LEGO-building Washingtonian now, there was a time when I lived in northern Indiana, South Bend for those playing the home game. If you want to learn how to make a LEGO micro building or scene, keep reading as we post more articles about this fascinating way to build. On the contrary, sometimes reducing something to it’s essential parts is harder and takes more creativity than just building it large. ![]() This doesn’t make the final product any less. Microscale is simply a way of taking something large and familiar and shrinking it in a way that keeps the familiarity and recognizable shape and some details, while sacrificing other lesser details. Using some forced perspective you might be able to make it work, but that’s another topic. ![]() You probably shouldn’t have a mountain at 1:10000 scale beside a building that’s 1:20 scale most of the time. The most important thing is to be consistent within a MOC. Obviously without using this type of scale an accurate brick-built replica would be enormous to the point of absurdity. These huge (or small?) scales are required when recreating geography or massive spaceships. The UCS Super Star Destroyer (Executor) set uses a crazy 1:15,000 scale going from 19 kilometers to 50 inches according to Star Wars canon. You could also use something like 1:600 scale as was used on the recent model of the Star Trek Deep Space 9 station. This is the scale used by LEGOLAND in California for buildings in the Miniland USA attraction. For example, you could use 1:20 scale meaning it’s 20 times smaller than it’s full-sized counterpart. There’s no official LEGO microscale guideline or set of rules to what scale to build in. It’s not a perfect scale as obviously minifigures aren’t shaped quite like people, but the consistency gives us a basis for building in relation to them. Every kid with a Space set or a City set or who built something for their minifigures is generally using the minifigure scale.Īccording to calculations by Tom Alphin and others, minifigure scale is between 1:25 and 1:42 depending on whether you base it on width or height. Everything in their world is sized for them. Doors are the right size for them, cars, animals, buildings, spaceships, etc. ![]() Most of the current mainstream offerings from LEGO come in minifig scale, meaning they are sized approximately to accommodate the standard minifigure. A microscale apartment building is recognizable as an apartment building, but wouldn’t be big enough for families of minifigures to live it. Microscale, conventionally, is pretty much anything smaller than that. Sure, we’ve had full sized Bugattis and X-Wings, even a full house made of LEGO, but those are the exceptions. In some way, almost every LEGO build is a microscale build in that it’s smaller than life-sized. Microscale is a concept that’s been around the LEGO community forever. ![]()
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