Lego Building Scale Tips and Tricks.

In this video I discuss what of building you should create when building a lego city. As it is very important to watch you dont over build or under build.
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[@hokaybricks7547]

Sorry to be a stickler, but "8 studs high" and "8 bricks high" are different measurements. 2 studs height-wise are equal to 5 plates (1 and 2/3 bricks).

[@juliansbrickcity5083]

Great that you said it because I didn't want to be THAT guy :D But it bothered me the whole video ;)

[@brickisland6353]

Puh, thanks for this. I knew someone would correct this. :-)

[@JopieHaargel]

Came for this.

[@apep713]

Floors in Real Buildings have different hights aswell. Your apartment building looks like it was a factory building in the past and got reused. They had really high sealings in those buildings and those are often reused for high priced apartments, since high sealings are not often made in buildings, that are build for apartments from the beginning. I really think u should leave it the way it is

[@LutzDerLurch]

@@BevinsBricksWorld Was about to suggest maybe placing it not directly adjacent to another building but maybe a small park or something, to make direct comparisons more difficult for the eye. At least in europe, though, turn of the century town houses did have some seriously high ceilings, large windows etc. And those that retained old windows and ceiling plasterwork etc. are now seriously high priced.

[@joem8325]

Thank you for this pointer. Hopefully it will save some headaches later on. Keep up the great videos

[@Gbricks]

Sounds like a plan you have thought of lots of work keep up the good work,ELLIOTSLEGOBRICKS

[@tdr240sx]

Thank you for the insight! That is a great point. Your apartment is very cool looks great. I do think it will look better when you do remove one Brick it will blend better but it does look great the way you built it! :D

[@_LLevi_]

I think you should keep the bigger building. It looks good and in my country building floors aren't the same size. There is a clear difference. But this is your city and you can do anything you want.

[@_LLevi_]

@@BevinsBricksWorld How big is your new city going to be? (Square meter)

[@_LLevi_]

@@BevinsBricksWorld After you rebuilt the old city what will be your next project? What do you want to add to the city?

[@_LLevi_]

@@BevinsBricksWorld Yeah they sound like a lot a fun to do. I hope that the barn is going to be finished soon because I can't wait to see the city put back together. Thank you for your answers it means a lot to me.

[@JayHeaTh-s2h]

and how many inches are they? I would be interested in something for o-gauge.

[@GalaGade2021]

Oh great Daryl did you just created more work for yourself..he he some bldg do have higher ceiling heights like older bldg..you can just pretend that your aprt block was a conversion from the olden days...unless your needed more red bricks...😁❤❤👍

[@chrisingram7718]

What would you use for a 1/64 scal (hotwheels) scale? I would greatly appreciate your insight :)

[@BevinsBricksWorld]

That's a really good question for hotwheels cars I would reference the old 1960s Lego sets as that was what the used. A good example is the vintage town plan set 246-1 it was from 1961 and actually came with 2 hot wheel sized cars

[@LutzDerLurch]

My issues with scale are that the 'lego-standard' has the houses all somewhat too small for the minifigs, especially the interiors. They seem to hold on to a certain slace only accounting for the height of the (in profortion) way to stubby and fat figures. Which creates tiny rooms and cramped places...kinds 'cute' for toy figures, but not exactly a nice scale. If we go by width of the figures, buildings would have to be much larger and more expensive. So a sort of compromise would likely be the best. Also, in buildings, there are conventions on modern room heights, but especially the turn-of-the-century town houses used to often have ceilings much higher than today.

[@LutzDerLurch]

@@BevinsBricksWorld Since I likely won't win the lottery, AND Britain is self sabotaging with brexit, I might want to build my dream home from LEGO instead, and scale is one tricksy bit. Also the finer details of 18th C. georgian architecture. The sash windows are my main problem, yet to be solved. And then how to brickbuild reasonable approximations of the interior walls, like that fancy pale blue paneling. And THEN how to do old style furniture, that looks like refines elegant furniture :/

[@LutzDerLurch]

@@BevinsBricksWorld thanks. I wonder ho thick I need to make the exterior and interior walls, to have different 'sides'...3 studs seems like a minimum, to allow 1 stuf for each wall surface and a stud for contingency and/or structural stuff..

[@LutzDerLurch]

@@BevinsBricksWorld luckily enough, georgian country houses don't often come with many arches. As they are larger than a regular farmhouse or village dwelling, though, they have stout walls in reality, too. Snot techniques likely are the way to go, but sometimes require a bit of space, so that's why I wondered if 3 might be a decent thicknes. more or less 1 stud space 'budget' for each face of the wall plus the middle one for extra space required by complicated constructions or stabilisation.

[@LutzDerLurch]

@@BevinsBricksWorld Basically this facade www.alamy.com/stock-photo-german-school-london-richmond-surrey-petersham-road-petersham-greater-97387939.html I like the versions of facade and interior without overly heavy decoration, but unfortunately, the restricted yet refined things are particularly difficult to pull off. So much depends on small variations, ledges and proportions...

[@cazsbricks2223]

good video, I use 8 studs and 2 plates for my building so they are quite high but that was the height I set as my standard when I started building MOCs, Having said that it will save some bricks if I do take a row of bricks out from each floor so I will try that and see how it looks, it will save me quite a few bricks lol.

[@Lego-Man123]

Great video and great updates, it was very cool to see your different features in you Lego room from you walking around, also great builds they are very cool with all of the different details and different features they are amazing also great tips and tricks

[@brickisland6353]

This was rely good. It's nice to know that there is some kind of standard when you/we build buildings for a Lego city or town. But can you look at the bottom floor on some of the modulars. I think some of them have higher bottom floor, like 9-10 bricks in height. Or am I wrong?

[@zenjii1461]

Wow, amazing what you did with that red appartement building, love the pizzeria too!!!

[@davidwest7443]

Another great video. A standard is something I stuggled with all the time when I started soing mocs. Mostly vwhicle mocs. Once I got a standard set and stuck with it I found it easier to do mocs and come up with ideas. So for me I can totally understand having a standard to build around. As always thanks again for sharing.

[@BrickBakery]

Hmm! Maybe I should try this too! I’ve never really thought about it in terms of assisting ideas! Interesting! Thanks :-)

[@davidwest7443]

@@BrickBakery Your very welcome. Sometimes just putting a size limit to what you want ro moc really helps create new ideas and new ways to utilize the space better. At least that is what I have found anyway.

[@BrickBakery]

David West yeah, I think I agree for sure! There’s a lot to be gained from setting up limitations. Creativity grows from not having everything :-) Do you use the 7-8 bricks per floor guideline?

[@davidwest7443]

@@BrickBakery i have just recently started doing building mocs myself but yes. To keep everything in scale for my buoldings so far none of the floors are over 8 studs tall with the exception of my fire stations ground floor. With that I allowed myself a 11 stud high max I think to accommodate my larger fire trucks.

[@BrickBakery]

David West cool! It sounds really useful - I’ve gotta try it out!

[@TitanicTruths]

Question. May have to look up the property in mention so you understand. But Im working on a custom Lynnewood Hall mod. My base is an estimated 3x4 plate (32x32 stud size). How would you recommend doing some of the detail work? Ive never done a project this large before

[@BevinsBricksWorld]

Thats a truly impressive looking building. To get inspiration do a google search of lego greek moc images. Or greek temples and you will see a lot of very good ideas.

[@chemistryguy]

I think I'll be checking out your channel regularly. I've had a considerable collection of legos since I was a kid, and I've organized them for the first time ever. I would love to do a model of the house we're living in, but I have no idea where to even begin.

[@johngarrett7438]

well put.I agree with you

[@johngarrett7438]

@@BevinsBricksWorld I just built the modular firehouse out of my own collection.changed it up a little and built a really cool truck for it.I cannot afford the prices that people want for the ones that I missed so im going that route.and im also staying with the modular sizes on my builds too.see you in your next live feed.later from new jersey.

[@juancotto6773]

How you can build w/o any manual, i can compare you with Emmet from lego movie, come from your mind in the moment

[@adamb2619]

Bottom and top penthouse floors are typically taller on real-life builings

[@mundwurf]

Thus ist the issiue between the Mod. Buildings and the Ghostbuster HQ

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[@Gdg10723]

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[@moonnightbricks3948]

Interesting..... A lot to think about... I think..

[@lifewithtodd7870]

Sometimes legos are kinda bothersome

[@Gdg10723]

thanks once again

[@ryandoyle9143]

I’m currently working on a moc based loosely on a real building in Chinatown, and my top floor is going to be around nine bricks tall to get the details I want, looking at the pictures of the real one it towers over it’s neighbor building of the same floor count about as much as you building does

[@BevinsBricksWorld]

Scaling is always difficult to do. What building are you doing ? So much amazing architecture out there to look at.

[@ryandoyle9143]

@@BevinsBricksWorld 63 east broadway, it’s an apartment over an Asian meat market, using the noodle shop from the monkie kid mech for the ground floor

[@BevinsBricksWorld]

The yellow building? It is a great building and one that would be fairly easy to moc.

[@ryandoyle9143]

@@BevinsBricksWorld yes, and a good way to use up some yellow bricks

[@boombricks5702]

I would personally leave the apartment building as is. It adds variety to a city. Little less uniform looking. In actual cities there are buildings that have taller individual floors than others. Maybe see how it fits with ones you are currently working on and if it looks weird then redo it. Just my opinion

[@boombricks5702]

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[@boombricks5702]

Bevins Bricks thanks!

[@shulembrecher9884]

Great

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[@stevegrant4760]

Great video, I have a few buildings in my city I built early on that I made the floor heights too high and too tall. Been thinking about re doing them to a more standard height. Love your city!! Take care.