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Widget Factory – Micropolis #216

Friday, 28th May 2021 By Caz

I have another piece of the Micropolis Industrial Zone to show you today – this is a factory which makes widgets, so I thought it best to just call it the Widget Factory!

I have wanted to use the rollercoaster track as Microscale girders for some time, and I had a few pieces spare from a recent project. So I put them to good use on the outside of the factory here.

The roof started out as a blank flat structure with loads of studs, but a few radar dishes, grille tiles and some pipe-like greebling later, it looked far more interesting.

The building didn’t occupy all of the half-block baseplate, so I was able to make a little park with a few trees and flowers to fill in one end and bring a little bit of nature into the industrial zone.

Boot Factory – Micropolis Block #185

Monday, 1st June 2020 By Caz

I’ve been wanting to make some more industrial structures for my microscale city for some time, and decided that a small factory would be my next project. The Boot Factory will form a quarter block plot somewhere on the outskirts of the airport, along with some other industrial units.

Micropolis Mobiles – Micropolis Block #125

Wednesday, 5th June 2019 By Caz

As I was fiddling around with some curved bricks and plates recently, this small light industrial factory building seemed to emerge, with definite echoes of Art Deco architecture – one of my favourite periods of design. When I was trying to finish it off, I found a matching mobile phone tile to use as an outdoor sign, so this naturally became the home of Micropolis Mobiles, one of the most successful telecommunications firms in the city.

Paint Factory – Micropolis Block #105

Friday, 8th March 2019 By Caz

I wanted to make a few more models for the industrial zone in Micropolis, so I started messinga about with a few bricks and some blue 1x6x5 support struts. Eventually I came up with this, which I decided was a paint factory.

Chemical Factory – Micropolis Block #64

Tuesday, 27th November 2018 By Caz

So far, my Micropolis models have been mostly very clean and well kept buildings. But with this model, I decided to go for a more gritty feel and put together a Chemical Factory which sits in the heart of the industrial area. Excatly what they are making and storing on site is far from clear, but the warning signs on the tanks don’t give you much reassurance.