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How To Build A LEGO Minifigure Habitat

Friday, 25th October 2019 By Caz

A couple of months ago, The Rambling Brick website announced a competition to win Series 19 Minifigures, by building a Minifigure Habitat to a template by Handoko Setyawan posted on Flickr in 2016. While I didn’t enter the competition, I did notice some habitats built by Steve Guinness and others on Instagram, and really liked the concept of these little interlocking stackable vignettes based around an 8×8 plate.

These are the pieces you will need to build a basic habitat:

  • One 8×8 plate
  • 24 1×4 bricks (I’ve shown them in two colours here so it’s easy to see how they are placed in the build)
  • 8 1×3 bricks
  • 4 1×2 bricks
  • 2 1×6 tiles
  • 1 1×2 plate
  • 2 1×1 plates

This video shows you how to put them to gether to form a basic habitat, which you can then decorate to suit the minifigure at hand.

Filed Under: Minifigure Habitat, Techniques Tagged With: habitat, instructions, minifig habitat, tutorial

Micropolis Tutorial #7 – Triangles, Circles & Other Tricky Shapes

Wednesday, 17th April 2019 By Caz

In this LEGO Micropolis tutorial, I show how to make buildings which are triangular, cylindrical and pentagonal, as well as other shapes which are not just square boxes. Using different shapes will give your builds much more interest, especially when combined together to make a larger city.

Filed Under: Micropolis, Techniques Tagged With: circles, triangles, tutorial, unusual shapes

Micropolis Tutorial #6 – Think Outside The Box

Monday, 8th April 2019 By Caz

In the sixth installment of my LEGO Micropolis tutorials, I discuss how to make your microscale MOCs less square and boxy, and more visually appealing.

Watch the other videos in the series here:
Micropolis Tutorial #1 – Baseplate
Micropolis Tutorial #2 – Vertical Scale & Floorplans
Micropolis Tutorial #3 – Window Elements
Micropolis Tutorial #4 – Design Patterns: Repetition & Variation
Micropolis Tutorial #5 – Block by Blockhead #45 – From Start To Finish

Filed Under: Micropolis, Techniques Tagged With: design techniques, thinking outside the box, tutorial

Quincunx House – Micropolis Block #45

Saturday, 27th October 2018 By Caz

In this video, I show you how I built a new LEGO Micropolis block from start to finish. I had the original idea for the design from Micropolis Tutorial #4 and decided to use the pattern to build a real block, which I finish off with roof details and landscaping accents.

Filed Under: Micropolis Tagged With: downtown zone, office block, quincunx house, snot bricks, tutorial

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