Compact Lego city format. Might it be interesting?

[BrickAA]

Hi everyone. I have a concept of a small city scene based on a 32x32 plate. Do you think this format could be interested to anybody? I believe many people like me has limited place for displaying Lego.

[The Island Chronicles]

DO IT!!!!!!!

[Nom Carver]

Absolutely, I love it.

[Jack Sassy]

I've done something that could be labeled as ''compact Lego city''. Would be interesting to see yours.

[Redroe]

Yes! I did something similar recently where I tried (and failed) to scale down the modular buildings.  Its so far out of my usual remit (LotR, spaceships) that I didnt get far. Would love to see someone do it justice  

[TeriXeri]

8x8 and 8x16 has been a format used in 3-in-1 sets for a few years (2017-2019) I think that size works well for compact builds.

 

[BrickAA]

17 hours ago, Poodabricks said:

DO IT!!!!!!!

 

16 hours ago, Nom Carver said:

Absolutely, I love it.

Thank you people, I will :D

15 hours ago, Jack Sassy said:

I've done something that could be labeled as ''compact Lego city''. Would be interesting to see yours.

I will, but it will take for a while. The design is not finished and I need to buy bricks.
Btw, do you have some pictures left?

13 hours ago, Redroe said:

Yes! I did something similar recently where I tried (and failed) to scale down the modular buildings.  Its so far out of my usual remit (LotR, spaceships) that I didnt get far. Would love to see someone do it justice  

Why you didn't succeed? I mean you didn't find the design that you liked, or some other stuff happened. 
Did you try to add any furniture inside? It seems that for this size it's a challenge. But it might be not necessary.  

13 hours ago, TeriXeri said:

8x8 and 8x16 has been a format used in 3-in-1 sets for a few years (2017-2019) I think that size works well for compact builds.

Make sense, thank you. 

[Jack Sassy]

1 hour ago, BrickAA said:

Btw, do you have some pictures left?

Not quite exactly. I do have this Flickr album which features few shots of the city. It is built on a long table with about 11 32x32 baseplates in length and 2 32x32 baseplates in depth. As I said, it can be labeled as a ''compact city'' but it is quite a bit larger than what you're planning (as it seems). I might take a picture of an overview later.

[Redroe]

5 hours ago, BrickAA said:

Why you didn't succeed? I mean you didn't find the design that you liked, or some other stuff happened. 
Did you try to add any furniture inside? It seems that for this size it's a challenge. But it might be not necessary.  

A few reasons but the main one was colour. I don't actually own any of the modular building series, I was more MOCing my own smaller versions than downscaling, and I realised quickly that my parts inventory didnt have much of the pastel, muted shades that work well for architecture (sand green, nougat, pale yellow for example). The end result for the actual builds wasn't far off your first pic.

I also like to have minifig scale doors and windows as well as furniture, which looked a bit comical and exaggerated. But i didnt mind that so much. I think as long as you get a chair and a pot plant in there you can claim its a lounge! But for a shop, say, it becomes more challenging. Just not enough floorspace 

By the way I love your vintage cars.

[BrickAA]

7 hours ago, Jack Sassy said:

Not quite exactly. I do have this Flickr album which features few shots of the city. It is built on a long table with about 11 32x32 baseplates in length and 2 32x32 baseplates in depth. As I said, it can be labeled as a ''compact city'' but it is quite a bit larger than what you're planning (as it seems). I might take a picture of an overview later.

If you have time I'll be happy to have a look. But yes, I agree, it seems much bigger.
Nice riot, btw :D
Sorry for an off-topic question, but is it supposed to represent some real events, of just a revolution in general?

3 hours ago, Redroe said:

A few reasons but the main one was colour. I don't actually own any of the modular building series, I was more MOCing my own smaller versions than downscaling, and I realised quickly that my parts inventory didnt have much of the pastel, muted shades that work well for architecture (sand green, nougat, pale yellow for example). The end result for the actual builds wasn't far off your first pic.

Yeah, bricks lack is a problem for me as well. I'm planning to buy them, but still trying to find a way to reduce the expenses and keep the design more or less fancy.

4 hours ago, Redroe said:

I also like to have minifig scale doors and windows as well as furniture, which looked a bit comical and exaggerated. But i didnt mind that so much. I think as long as you get a chair and a pot plant in there you can claim its a lounge! But for a shop, say, it becomes more challenging. Just not enough floorspace 

I decided to use small doors, just to make it look a bit more proportional.
There are a couple of reasons why I'm concerned about furniture:
1. As I you mentioned, lack of free space. But I agree, a chair and a pot plant might be good enough.
2. I planned to put it on a shelf, so the back side of the city will be turned to the room's wall. So the furniture won't be visible. But it's good to know, that it's still there :)

4 hours ago, Redroe said:

By the way I love your vintage cars.

Thank you. As I'm repeating everywhere, I love them too :D. 
Basically them nudged me to the idea of this city scene. 

[Jack Sassy]

Just now, BrickAA said:

If you have time I'll be happy to have a look. But yes, I agree, it seems much bigger.
Nice riot, btw :D
Sorry for an off-topic question, but is it supposed to represent some real events, of just a revolution in general?

Thank you, I might take a picture or two overviewing the whole thing. Revolution that is presented with the riots in pictures is something I made up, the story isn't finished just yet.