The task for this month’s Meet and Brick event is building a microscale city. Our city was inspired by one of the twins’ creations that used the dark blue and magenta color palette of the Alien Beetlezoid from the LEGO Minifigure Series 26. We weren’t that familiar with microscale building techniques, so we had to do some research. Eventually, we came upon the work of Jeff Friesen for inspiration as we built our alien city scape.

Building on a 16 x 32 baseplate, our main idea was to have the residential and commercial parts of the city separated by a waterway. We used satin window panels for a canal that were clear enough that the jagged red riverbed underneath could be seen. For added detail, we lined the canal with magenta cliffs, lavender rock faces, purple slopes, and several rock crystals.

A railway bridge spans the canal and connects the underground stations of the city train network. Our microtrain comes with a medium blue slope with silver starburst patterns, which turns out to be from Cinderella’s carriage! And it turns out that modified plates with door rails make great microscale tracks because vehicles a stud wide can easily slide through them. This track passes through a tunnel archway on both sides of the canal, and vehicle mudguards are just the right size for our train to pass through.