Fuel For All, Lego City Update !

Fuel The Town, Lego City Update !
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[@BevinsBricks]

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[@EvansBrickhouse]

Honestly the black parking lot didn’t bother me. Where I live lots of places have a mix of concrete lots and blacktop lots. Same with roads. So it was good to me. But either way it looks good. The new addition of the gas station looks great. Those power polls look awesome and adds so much and every city has those and you never see them in LEGO cities. So bravo. Great city update.

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks man, Im with you I thought the black actually made the parking lot pop also. I think with a lot of things its people dont see cities done using black so it throws people off.

[@onewiththestud]

@@BevinsBricksagreed I even see the mixture of road types on motorways here in uk

[@matt18385]

The black parking lot looked great, looked like a freshly tarred blacktop.

[@BlackoutStudioss]

@@matt18385yes I preferred the black parking lot

[@LucLoLCreations]

I think dark grey is more natural

[@carlsonrobb]

Man you do an incredible job. Very impressive

[@BevinsBricks]

Thank you 😊

[@elfhead324]

This city is one of the best I’ve seen. Just a recommendation build a car dealer ship selling old muscle cars would be awesome.

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks, and thats a great idea :)

[@ricardocarvalho1235]

It's looking beautiful

[@BevinsBricks]

Thank you

[@needfoolthings]

What I love about this city is it almost looks like a backdrop to a million movies I've seen that had a small town as their setting... horror movies, comedies, dramas...

[@BevinsBricks]

Haha you know yeah just needs a old creepy abandoned building somewhere and a crazy minifig running with a hatchet or something 😜

[@needfoolthings]

@@BevinsBricks ...and a gym next to a high school!

[@BevinsBricks]

​@knightkrawler4774 yeah I need a school somewhere for sure. Maybe even a small camp crystal or something lol😂

[@aliciapozzo9947]

i love the power poles.

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks 😊

[@natemr4482]

Great City update Daryl have a great week 👍

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks Nate you as well.

[@Emperor_Creeper]

Amazing! I love your lego city!! Great job, keep up the good work!

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks

[@boxicknowsbest9100]

BEVINS BRINKS UPLOAD WOOOOOOOOO HOW DID I MISS IT!?!? BETTER LATE THAN NEVER!!!

[@BevinsBricks]

No worries 😀

[@evank.4715]

That’s pretty much exactly was I’ve been planning to do with the same gas station. Nice to see it together and looking good.

[@BevinsBricks]

Its a great look. debated making it deeper but using on a corner it really limits the size.

[@tayshonharris6430]

Awesome city update Daryl! It's been a minute since I've watched your city updates and a lot has changed! I really like how realistic your city looks with all the detail and lighting! I think for the parking lot you should replace the yellow lines separating the spaces with white. Can't wait for future updates!

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks, hope your doing well. For the parking Ive never seen anywhere by me anyway that uses white which is why Im leaving them yellow. I wish lego would make yellow for the road centerlines also.

[@tayshonharris6430]

@BevinsBricks oh ok interesting! Where I live, most parking spaces have white lines. Also, I may end up buying a few lights from your website since I've been trying to light up my city recently!

[@BevinsBricksWorld]

@tayshonharris6430 Are you in the UK by chance ? Or southern US. I live in the north and the reason they use yellow is when we get snow you cant see the lines. 😀 I look forward to filling your order. Lighting is a lot of fun to do.

[@tayshonharris6430]

@@BevinsBricksWorld I live in the eastern US. But that makes sense with the lines tho.

[@starhunter2300]

Transformer requires a smoking squirrel scene. 😂

[@BevinsBricks]

Lmao.or a bird 😀

[@tatamimats]

looks awesome, I'm really enjoying the progression.

[@BevinsBricks]

Thank you I appreciate it 😊

[@charliern]

I love how the city is looking Daryl. The train wires are a special touch you rarely ever see in a layout. My only gripe is with the parking spot, which seems kind of weirdly uniform with those 4 bushes and 3 trees perfect centre. it would make a huge different with something a bit less symmetrical, maybe even a larger tree in the corner? idk. it looks so cool. keep it coming 👍

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks 😊

[@rclaxton1651]

Awesome city man

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks Rob

[@rclaxton1651]

@@BevinsBricks you welcome man

[@KenaFloofDerg]

This is such a nice update, really fills out some of the empty space and makes everything look more whole

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks, I still have a lot of details I want to add, but did not have much time to build this week sadly.

[@peterdean9181]

I can see where you notched out part of a snot brick to run your wires through

[@BevinsBricks]

I do notches by using 1x1 round plates, snot bricks for the wire I use either a headlight brick with an open back or snot brick with holes on both sides. I do drill holes in 4x4 plates for my lamp posts and to install the magnetic connectors in technic bricks.

[@General_Stryfe]

For the gas station for added realism I would pop out one or two of the 2x4 tiles and replace it with a 2x3 and a 1x1 with a small plant piece because whenever you go to a small town gas station always in one spot there is a patch of grass spouting in the middle of cracked concrete!

[@BevinsBricks]

You make a very good point there, I may need to do that for the next one.

[@citybricks123]

Awesome update! I use a lot of your products in my city! You make it look so easy.

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks, my goal is to make lighting easy for everyone to do and understand. :) I appreciate the support and use of my products. Being a 30 year electrician lighting is a passion of mine.

[@BrickfordCityFire]

Fantastic!

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks 😊

[@karens8633]

Looks Great! 😊

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks

[@WallacedaWalrus]

Fantastic update! The city is really coming alive!

[@BevinsBricks]

Thank you 😊

[@blacktronpavel]

Love it. Totally inspired

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks :)

[@mattvalentine]

Coming along very nicely

[@BevinsBricks]

Slow and steady :)

[@Cymindis]

Looks fabulous, as usual! thanks for sharing

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks for watching 😀

[@countrabricksbuildcraze8916]

I guess that. Is a bonus. The cavity in the new road plate. To hide the wire s .😊.I'm yousing the new road plate s in some spot s in my city. But stilling yousing the old road plate s ..

[@BevinsBricks]

The old road plates are great if your not gonna do any lighting. I even use the roadplates for bases in building and under brick built roads. Ive just found for doing lighting, I personally think the new road plates are the way to go.

[@cwjonesII]

Nice!

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks

[@brieucpoulain7199]

Amazing mocs and great imagination ! Keep it up buddy, love to see it coming alive

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks so much I appreciate it.

[@petarb4209]

Awesome

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks

[@CC-om7xd]

Looks great. Thanks for sharing.

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks for watching.

[@appalachianwanderer4634]

Looks good 👍🏻 😊

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks

[@iliketrains2160]

I always love all the little details you add, like the gas meter at the gas station. Just makes me so happy.

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks so much, its the little things that most people over look. Being a tradesman I tend to focus on them.

[@dustylegobricks]

Man that looks great! Thanks for sharing 👍

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks Buddy

[@johnathansawyer8736]

Looks killer! What's the part number on that curved glass in the gas station???

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks, and its part 2572

[@Auheppa]

Looks good

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks

[@Venice_Mestre]

Your city has never been so detailed and realistic! So cool

[@callumslocombe8428]

Yes it has… lol

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks

[@BevinsBricks]

Lol yes but it was mostly skyscrapers that time ;)

[@richardhaubert4522]

I love the little detail of the tires in the corner. As a kid in the 1970s, we had an Esso gas and service station just up the street on the corner and this MOC resembles that building. Brought back some fond memories.

[@BevinsBricks]

Same with me, as growing up we had a station by us with 2 car bays and thry always had tires out front on display like that. One detail I forgot to add was a pay phone on the side of the building too.

[@BradleyJSimmons]

Really great improvements! I’m not hugely into lighting, but if I do go down that path. It’ll be yours that I use

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks, I get it, lighting is just another expensive hobby and rather addictive :). Being a 30 year electrician though its always a must for me to add lights.

[@BradleyJSimmons]

@@BevinsBricks I respect the personal effort and investment you put into this!

[@BevinsBricksWorld]

@@BradleyJSimmons it is definitely an investment, but it is also very enjoyable when you see it coming together.

[@bretuecker]

Another awesome update buddy! Hope you can keep them coming!

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks

[@brucec3505]

Hi Daryl! I love this video because it gives me the idea that I might start using the new LEGO road plates. I still make MILS plates and brick-built roads. Thanks for showing me how useful the new road plates can be! 🦈🦈🦈

[@BevinsBricks]

I still like my brick built roads as well, but if you are doing lighting, there is no better way than to use the new road plates. They are very useful and much cheaper than brick built roads as well.

[@JOSHSLEGO]

Wow really cool city update, I like the petrol station, and the power lines look great! Also, the black parking lot did kind of bother me, but it was also quite realistic because in parts of America i’ve seen in movies, photos, etc, there is quite commonly a mix of black and grey roads, but still it looks quite nice and smooth like it is now 😁 👍

[@BevinsBricks]

Yeah here in the states its very common to see a mix of both concrete and pavement in parking lots and even the main roads can have sections patched with blacktop. But I try to keep my viewers happy and went ahead and changed it 😀

[@JOSHSLEGO]

@@BevinsBricks 😁

[@k1ngofpayne991]

Holy crap! that gas station looks amazing i even remember a few gaststations like that over here in the Netherlands from when i was a kid and i was always enchanted by the giant curved glass facade's on the shops. (god im getting old) but you sound allot happier then when we last spoke on IG and your city is shows your renewed joy of building. Keep up the Good work Brother

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks, yes I miss the stations of old when you actually had an attendant come out and fill the car for you. Building then were made with purpose and style unlike most architecture of today. As for my motivation Im slowly learning to tune out all the negatives and just focus on what I want and like and more on my joy of the hobby again. Trying not to worry about the views and just have fun with it all :)

[@k1ngofpayne991]

@@BevinsBricks keep it up cuz your work is better then ever before brother.

[@BevinsBricks]

​@@k1ngofpayne991thanks so much 😊

[@sleepdeep305]

Looks amazing. This kind of small town is everywhere in the US

[@BevinsBricks]

Thatks, yes I get a lot of inspiration from where I live in tecumseh michigan.

[@Vincent-396]

Looking good, my friend. Keep up the great work. Cool gas station. Clever electric poles.

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks so much 😀

[@janmuller4363]

You could put a billboard at the backside off the gas station. I think it would fit there because people can look at it when entering the station by train. I would recommend the decorated reddish brown 8x16 tile from the once upon a time book.

[@BevinsBricks]

Thats a great idea, I print stickers to use dark grey and also dark red 8x16 tiles I also brick build billboards as well like the 2 on the opposite side of the train station :)

[@jamessunderland5228]

What a magniicient town! It's great that you put this atmosphere from where you live I believe? And put some nastalgia from your childhood too. Also it' very interesting, and relaxing actually, to hear your explanations. A great project for sharing

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks so much, yes a lot of inspiration comes from the small town I live in which is Tecumseh Michigan. Plus growing up in small towns I have a lot of great memories.

[@matt18385]

Awesome update. That tree next to the gas station is amazing

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks, I have a lot of instructions for different types of tree builds on my other channel bevins bricks world :)

[@Joker96624]

I thought the same as you with the car wash, and plan to fill the space with an office. Even as a kid, the car wash/vehicle bay combination never made sense in a small area like that.

[@BevinsBricks]

No not at all especially with the fact that the set was made to be a vintage gas station. Car washes at least here in the states were something that became common recently. But with a 32x32 plate it just doesnt make sense either.

[@max.pictures]

Will you also be adding bicycles?

[@BevinsBricks]

Once I start populating the city a little yes :)

[@preusse5330]

When comes a new update of the City?

[@BevinsBricks]

Usually on Sundays if I get a chance to work on it.

[@dylanwhite3383]

Nice video and keep up the good work and also i just finished recoloring my 2022 passenger train from it's standard green color to a red color

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks, I bet that looks great in red, would match my old train station.

[@dylanwhite3383]

@@BevinsBricks i actually got the idea from a video where the person in the video didn't like how the green color looked on the train so they changed the parts to red and i made a short video of my locomotive last night after i finished recoloring it

[@BevinsBricks]

​@@dylanwhite3383awesome

[@SportyPompano]

I love this, looks great as always, ive never seen a gas station in realy life with a service station like that lol, though i dont travel much so that may be it lol

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks, as for the station they dont make them that way anymore, only one left by me that still has a garage bay but the place is very run down and on the verge of closing.

[@SportyPompano]

@@BevinsBricks that sucks, I think it would be cool to work somewhere like that just having everything a driver needs haha

[@woolseym]

I was never interested in lighting a lego city, but your setup has made me rethink that

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks Matt, Im trying to make lighting easy for anyone that wants to try it.

[@buddylee6996]

The gas station looks amazing! I think you did an amazing job with what space you had to work with.

[@BevinsBricks]

Thank you, it's tough when you limit your space. Trying to keep true to the small town feel.

[@jonathanderijk5332]

this is becoming a masterpiece of a custom made lego city. i was cutted when you destroyed the old city wich was awesome to but hey, this is something else man. wow

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks, I still have a bunch of my old buildings as well and plans to use them in the future also. Just not sure exactly how I want to incorperate them yet 😀 most likely it will be in an expansion of some kind unto another table.

[@Soy_Barman]

Wow. I love it. BTW, I feel that maybe a lego scooter can fit in the parking spot for the gas station staff. I like how its going all.

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks, thats a great idea :)

[@Real_Moon-Moon]

This looks amazing! Question, is that a loading dock intended for train cars? I can't remember if you've mentioned it.

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks, I didnt plan it that way but thought it was a good place to pop the building. It was meant for trucks though.

[@Real_Moon-Moon]

​@@BevinsBricks I think you should extend it towards the tracks and have it be a place to unload and load trains. Could work nicely. However, the passenger station down the line might be a small problem. Eh, that's how it goes IRL in America if I'm not mistaken.

[@Simon-T.]

As always excellent update and the gas station and telegraph poles looks great. My only thought would be if I owned the gas station and my kid went running out the back door he could end up straight on the tracks. Is there enough room for a fence of some kind?

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks and possibly, but it will be a very tight fit, Ill see about trying it and if I can Ill add it in the next update.

[@onewiththestud]

Love the gas station

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks

[@dd_zzero6827]

Love the progress Daryl. The only quibble for me is that those two cars at the gas station are so long. They make the gas station look small, even though it is. I would switch the cars out and put in ones that are smaller.

[@BevinsBricks]

Well its lego and nothing is perfect. The space is small so have to work woth what you have

[@countrabricksbuildcraze8916]

I would love to add some power line s. In my city ... Nice power pole. Design 👌💥..thanks for showing. How you made them...hear where I live. In the nayboure hood s now day s all the power line s are under ground. But in the older naybour hood s thay still got them in the street s ..

[@BevinsBricks]

Your welcome, yes all new subs or developments do underground today. But with me trying to get a vintage look I want as much over head types of things as I can make :) memories of days gone by.

[@brileybates2039]

Could you give us the sizes of of the boreds so people can plan their city’s ahead for you light (example the bored that runs the traffic light) thanks for your time.

[@BevinsBricks]

All the products I use are sold on my website www.bevinsbricks.com including the traffic light board :)

[@brileybates2039]

Thanks, I figured out the size for the light bored by the .8mm plug, I guess I should have used the brain lol, thanks though

[@BevinsBricks]

​@@brileybates2039lol your good, I use .8mm for all my plugs because they fit in every hole in lego pieces. Sometimes I do drill holes and use a 1/8 bit when I do.😊

[@themaskedraff]

do you have any videos showing off how youve consturcted your road? just like a straigt and a intersection? Im curiousnbecause it looks like itts more then just the modular plates

[@BevinsBricks]

My other channel has a ton of how to videos and I want to say if you watch my mils live streams they explain them pretty well also. Here is a link to one of my videos kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y6mbl2CHq9toe7s

[@themaskedraff]

@@BevinsBricks tysm :)

[@engine5er721]

Where was the fire truck

[@BevinsBricks]

Didnt get it lit up this week. I should have it all set for the next update video.

[@For891]

How do you have time between builds, videos and being an electrician? Awesome work!

[@BevinsBricks]

Lack of sleep lol, it catches up on me every so often and when it does I dont sleep for awhile .

[@brickymcbrickerson9506]

Guess I have a modern European city where the power is underground lol, never thought to build power poles 😊 Great job though!!!

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks, Lol, yes any modern building is always done underground. Even my small home town has a lot underground now. But I love the old time feel of having overhead lights :)

[@JudesBricks-ef5lv]

The gas station looks great.

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks 😊

[@looopers5764]

I realy like your city and it very well put together. I just think that the hotel is maybe a little large for the area. It's a nice building though.

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks, I wanted the hotel taller due to it being by the train station. So it will stay that way. Also typically with old small towns the center buildings are typically taller and get shorter as they move out.

[@KianYu25]

Looking good bro more updates to come, but it would be better if you put the lego movie gas station there, maybe it fits your city i have the pdf instructions for the build

[@BevinsBricks]

Whats the lego movie gas station ? Dont remember them making a set of it unless it was something I missed.

[@MayoHosko]

1:22 that’s from the 2008 town plan. Unlike the city service station from 2007 the 2008 version was not sold separately

[@BevinsBricks]

You are correct

[@VRSK1]

When I saw regular gas station, I was like "Finally"!... I own this set, I would like to make some "update" of this gas station, but I did not found anything on rebrickable :-/ So I hoped for some instructions from you (kinda like your ideas) but you modified it without car wash, so again... Nothing for me. Rest of the city is perfect, keep doing this work! :)

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks

[@ashzephyr]

How quaint. I'm getting some Mayberry vibes out of this little town

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks the police station is modeled after the police station from the andy griffith show :)

[@rjray1176]

How about using the utility poles to carry the actual wires used to power the city..

[@BevinsBricks]

It can be done yes, and I had considered it. But the wires are hard to train to lay and look natural.

[@chrisbroadhurst3039]

Great work as always my man! Always look forward to your uploads.

[@BevinsBricks]

Thank you so much.

[@noahmielke2148]

First.

[@BevinsBricks]

Yes you are 😀

[@LemonAndGravy_]

This is just a little nit pick but it would be cool to see yellow dashed center lines instead of white. I know lego only makes white lines for roads, but I think making them yellow would further sell the Main Street USA look. Also, love your content and the city is really coming together!

[@BevinsBricks]

Sadly they do not currently make any in yellow. But that was why my old city had all brick built roads. As I used yellow on all 2 way roads and white centers for 1 way only. Hopefully lego at some point will come out with yellow. I would use yellow 2x4 plates but they are entirely to wide.

[@LemonAndGravy_]

@@BevinsBricks agreed. 2x4 would be too wide. Hopefully they end up coming out with one. I guess the only other option would be custom stickers (if that is something you would want to do). If not, I think it looks perfectly fine the way that it is. It’s such a small detail that most people wouldn’t notice

[@BevinsBricks]

​@@LemonAndGravy_the people that notice are mainly usa 😊 but its because all our roads have yellow center lines so I do get it.

[@jonatannoisnorrason3511]

uh iin the episode of full house steve urkel did touch one of those thing to cause the shock that cause the two family off the rooftop were they try to installed the satellite dish

[@firetoacat]

I recently started watching your content and I have to say, I love the lighting your doing. If I ever get to the point of really starting my city project, I think I may sink some money into your LED lights for a number of the buildings I want to do and some of the fun displays I want to show in my city project. I will keep watch for your next video! If your looking for ideas for your city, perhaps a fun little gag display set in some corner of the city, maybe something like the Doctor from Doctor who getting into his TARDIS or something like that.

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks so much, being a 30 year electrician lighting has always been a passion for me, and Im always looking for ways to make it easier for people to do themselves as well. Im sure once I start populating the city a bit Ill add a few interesting features. The tardis is a great idea.

[@FactorySoylent]

Lately I've noticed clips of audio being too aggressively spliced together. Sometimes a sentence can't even finish before the next one starts. Generally one should leave a longer and more natural gap between two clips or when removing parts of one, otherwise it becomes very unpleasant to the ear. I do enjoy this video series. The vintage style architecture and custom lighting is very nice.

[@BevinsBricks]

I actually do that on purpose due to some classes I had taken for editing on youtube. They claim leaving pauses makes people loose interest. So I try to keep pauses short. I will note that and work on it though. :)

[@FactorySoylent]

@@BevinsBricksYour classes are correct. If you leave a five to ten seconds of silence, that's not good. Many channels in hobby genres make this mistake, and that emptiness is bad editing. But a space for something that's similar to a normal breath is not unwanted either. If you listen to most of your video, you speak with a normal pace and rhythm, and that is good and enjoyable to listen to. The cuts if refer to do make me pay attention, but only to the fact that it sounds artificial. Especially when words literally overlap, or when one part ends low, and the next part is immediately high, with no natural transition. My attention is then only drawn to the audio editing, not the Lego. I'm not telling you to stop editing out long pauses where you're thinking of what to say next, or taking out parts where you say something you feel is a mistake, but just make sure that what you leave behind fits together naturally and sounds like human speech. Some audiences do like that fast paced hyper-cut style, but I'd guess your audience enjoys something that fits naturally and well together, not something that is cut, filed, and super-glued. (Maybe they'd accept a few machine drilled holes for electrical wiring!)

[@BevinsBricks]

​@@FactorySoylentlol, yes and I do the machine drilling also 😂

[@FactorySoylent]

@@BevinsBricks I know, and that's fine. The results speak for themselves, and I think everyone agrees the lighting in your city looks great because of that. But those magnetized bricks are a pretty nice innovation. It's cool how your modular city can actually be truly modular, and not have every section be connected to each other in a spaghetti mess of wiring!

[@foxleader3253]

At least it's not the old old gas station set

[@BevinsBricks]

Which one is that ?

[@foxleader3253]

@@BevinsBricks I'll post it in the discord

[@ProcrastinatinZombie]

everytime he says simply this and that but then the design is really good and has complexities..... a bit of me dies lol

[@BevinsBricks]

Lol Im sorry, unfortunately most really good looking techniques are rather part intensive.

[@anthonyrobinson4285]

Another great video!! I want to buy your products however I need to send you a photo or video of my city so you can recommend/ help me find the best products! Do you have an email or something I can send them to?

[@BevinsBricks]

Thanks, the best email is [e-mail] but you can also ask a question and send images on my website chat as well.

Great update, but it the corner gas station is underwhelming 🫠 I think if you planned a bit better (maybe not on this lot) but you could have used lego modular corner garage build. I think it would have been much better looking

[@BevinsBricks]

No I like what I have built thanks