WIP: City Section 2

[alienwar9]

Here is the second of 11 sections of my city project.

I decided to finish the entire section before posting this time, so the only preview was of the brown bridge until now

This section is probably the most complex, as it has the "star" building, my first bridge build, my first attempt at a finished diagonal road, and to make the angled road worse...a diagonal bridge!

As I mentioned in another post, I won't be including the final versions of whole sections. I'm including a lot of pictures, but I'm willing to upload specific parts if requested.

And of course a bird's eye view.

I did this section with the other side of the river also, as it was just easier that way. I also added the lights on the other side of the main street. So here are pictures of the whole setup I worked on.

A few "close" ups

And once again, a bird's eye view of the whole setup. You can get a good idea of the road layout

Piece count: 17,635 (without other side of river) (took me like 10 edits to get this right for some reason )

Edited May 8, 2011 by alienwar9

[Zerobricks]

Wow, thats massive! How many bricks did you use?

[alienwar9]

Here are the two buildings in the section: building 18 (modern style tower) and building 19 (bar/club/apartments)

This building is almost 2, as it has an inner black tower, surrounded by the dark red shell (yes, that's a lot of dark red pieces )

I basically took 3 buildings and mashed them into one. This was an extremely fun building to come up with and tinker. The casing splits into a top level and bottom, and the bottom half is attached to the second floor of the building almost exclusively.

Here is a close up of the entrance and the street details. Also a top down view to see the star pattern.

Building 19 was an easy build, using multiple techniques I found and playing with them. This is also the first building to have a green roof. I decided to have this as a representation of Chicago's green efforts. I'm still thinking about how far I want to go with this.

[Brickdoctor]

Ginourmously awesome as always, alienwar! This is probably my favorite of all the sections so far, as all the different shapes and angles you've done with this software are incredible.

[Fuzzylegobricks]

Very great like the other! I love these builds. The corner bridge really does look hard but

very satisfying.

[DLuders]

From a distance, your modern Building 18 gives the impression that "Spidey" (Spiderman) has moved to Chicago!

[DLuders]

@ alienwar9: Have you seen the Lego John Hancock Center (Chicago, Illinois) done in LDD and in real bricks? It is the (black) centermost model in the Chicago building group below (Trump-Chicago, John Hancock Center, & Sears Tower):

[legojazzbricks]

wow thats going to be expencive of ldd.

great work though its fantastic

thanks

legojazzbricks

[Matanuilover]

Wow. Thats just amazing. Is there any chance you could post a partial LXF? I would love to get a look at how that x was built.

[alienwar9]

@DLuders: Wow! I'm not sure if I've seen those. The Trump Tower is definitely a new one to me. Funny, I think I just finished a building with that same piece use (except with black plate background).

@Matanuilover: I'm not sure what you mean by the "X" part but I'm guessing you mean the diagonal road.

I can give you just that road, right....here

It includes a modified version of the bridge mechanic for the one side, and a really messy method to control the lock on the other side. Note only one side of the bridge lifts. I might make the lifting part longer, just so that there is more "clearance" for boats.

Note: Most of this is not color corrected, so I haven't checked if the pieces exist. I'm still going to have 1 final pass over the whole city to check colors....fun

[Matanuilover]

@Matanuilover: I'm not sure what you mean by the "X" part but I'm guessing you mean the diagonal road.

I meant the red-and black building...I guess it looks more like an H...several, in fact. I probably should have clarified more...

[alienwar9]

Ahhh, ok. Well, I can give you the red "casing" of building. That's probably the only part of the building that is complicated. The rest is a pretty standard floor-by-floor building build. I placed a couple of black squares inside to give a reference of where the building sits.

LXF