Asilla Posted January 10, 2011 Posted January 10, 2011 Hi. I*m a big fan of microscale, is there a special thread where that is up ? I could use advice/help regarding buying bricks for it and help with starting out, I can find lots of pics but not advice or discussion on "how to" Quote
fred67 Posted January 10, 2011 Posted January 10, 2011 (edited) Well... I don't think there's a specific EB area just for micro, since you can build anything in micro it applies to every theme. The latest issue (I think) of Brick Journal has a "Building Standards" section and includes a few pages on microscale, but it's not entirely accurate, if you ask me. They actually "define" micro figure size as 1-brick high + 1 plate head; if you look at some of my microscale creations (well... one big creation that I'm still working on), I make them taller, which allows you to use clips for them to hold things. This joust scene, for example, shows the figures holding lances and shields and even riding micro horses. This is my thread on my ongoing (if slow) microscale castle project. You can visit Classic Castle's How-To section for their microscale techniques. Then, of course, is MicroBricks, a blog dedicated to microscale LEGO. Most people, though, as far as I know, just wing-it - trial and error. It's usually not that frustrating because it's micro and any particular "thing" is not so many bricks that you get frustrated at the work you put into when it doesn't look just right. Edit: I wanted to make it clear that there's no "fixed" meaning of "micro" scale, that's why I didn't like the "definition" given in brick journal... the scale of some creations are so small they simply can't have "people," for example. So while there might be "standards," like "Micropolis," "micro" by itself isn't defined as anything except "smaller than mini." I'd offer, with LEGO making some arbitrary "midi" scale, that you might want to say "smaller than midi." Edited January 10, 2011 by fred67 Quote
Asilla Posted January 10, 2011 Author Posted January 10, 2011 Hi Fred. Thanks for your answer and the links. I saw your micro castle, love it :D I'll take a tour to the links and see all of it later, its very facinating. Quote
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