Another great vid. The loosely connected baseplate on the back of that jazz club mils was triggering me big time😂. The mils plates just gives you so much opportunity to add landscape variations, ponds, streams, etc as well as the obvious roads and paths. You could probably try a stud peg in as your joiner between mils plates instead of a full peg as that would make it easier to disconnect your mils plates later 👍
Another tip to lower the costs: Unless you have a pick a brick wall with 4x4 plates it’s cheaper to buy 16x16 plates instead. Added bonus is that you don’t need as many supporting 2x2 bricks as well. Of course only a few 2x2 bricks on the edges is not enough to prevent bending, but some sort of a middle ground is certainly possible.
I finally broke down and decided to switch from the old road plates to the new road plates. It just looks so much cleaner and nicer… and I have a place to get rid of my weird colour bricks underneath 😉
You can for example combine two or more baseplates together and so long as the joins are overlapping will make equally as strong MILS plates but bigger. This is useful for modulars like Assembly Square which is 1.5 baseplates wide. I built a bigger one for a castle and is like one rigid unit.
Advice please, whilst I 'sort of' understand MILS plates, how do you make them just for set collectors? We are nowhere near ready for a Lego room, but like to move our Displays around every so often, how would you MILS plate Rivendell?
And then, in all the spare space around the set, you can add landscape, foliage, etc to enhance the build. There are lots of great examples of the Medieval Blacksmith done this way, with wells, ponds, paths and more trees Also if it is displayed, you probably want the seen edges to all be the same colour
I really never see the point of MILS plate, the cost does not justify the benefit, i can move all my modulars with the original plate no problem at all. The amount of plastic needed to build is crazy. How do put lights in the channel when you have built a modular building on the base, you can't just peel up a 4x4 plate?
It’s easier than you’d think to lift up the individual plates. Most of the building can come up in one go, that’s how I transferred the Sanctum Sanctorum onto a MILS plate. Trying to move that one upstairs on its original plate is what convinced me to move to MILS, it was very wobbly. I would hate to move something like the Avengers Tower on its original plate. Plus, without MILS the roads would be higher than the curb. So lots of benefits!
You'll find, over a short period of time, that the corners of the baseplates, once built on, start to 'curl up' at the corners. Nothing major, but enough to be noticeable. Yes you could of course connect the corners with maybe 1x4, 1x6, or 1x8 light grey tiles.
You definitely need to shop around more when buying parts, new 2x2 bricks are around 3-4p each on bricklink in the quantities you bought instead of the 9p per brick you paid.
Great video and showing how do mils plate. Lv to see how you put train track on as I don't understand the instructions. Lv seeing you lego city coming together xxx
This was very interesting. What would happen if you put another base plate on top instead of all the individual white pieces? So it was like a brick sandwich?
The problem with that is it’s an awkward shape, so if makes it more difficult. Not impossible, but more difficult. We haven’t done it for the Disney castle. Just for the stuff in the city they’ll be moved around more often.
Just binge watched all the videos on the channel so far in the last 24 hours after coming over from your travel channel! Love all this content. Don’t really build that much Lego myself but find all the videos on here really relaxing and fun! 😊
I've watched all your videos on this channel and never bought lego in my life haha but love you guys, enjoy the content and now considering maybe a Disney or Harry Potter build haha
I built my first MILS for Sanctum set, fully enclosed the sides, which wasn't necessary. I've not found Brickowl any cheaper than Bricklink. It might be worth playing with Studio, as I'm sure there's some good cheats for building just facades and outsides of some buildings, keeping the cost down by removing play features etc. Then you can buy the other half of that fugly train :D
finally someones explained what a Mils plate is..in a clear easy to follow way...
Another great vid. The loosely connected baseplate on the back of that jazz club mils was triggering me big time😂. The mils plates just gives you so much opportunity to add landscape variations, ponds, streams, etc as well as the obvious roads and paths. You could probably try a stud peg in as your joiner between mils plates instead of a full peg as that would make it easier to disconnect your mils plates later 👍
Another tip to lower the costs: Unless you have a pick a brick wall with 4x4 plates it’s cheaper to buy 16x16 plates instead. Added bonus is that you don’t need as many supporting 2x2 bricks as well. Of course only a few 2x2 bricks on the edges is not enough to prevent bending, but some sort of a middle ground is certainly possible.
You lose a bit of flexibility for running wires underneath if you do that though, which is one of the main benefits of doing MILS for me
I finally broke down and decided to switch from the old road plates to the new road plates. It just looks so much cleaner and nicer… and I have a place to get rid of my weird colour bricks underneath 😉
Question why wouldn't you use 2- 32x32 plates after putting down the studs.
You can for example combine two or more baseplates together and so long as the joins are overlapping will make equally as strong MILS plates but bigger. This is useful for modulars like Assembly Square which is 1.5 baseplates wide. I built a bigger one for a castle and is like one rigid unit.
Yeah, I combined 2 baseplates for the MILS plate for Assembly Square and the Natural History Museum
Is that a Lego related injury covered by the iron man plaster?
No he is on blood thinners and he’s finger started bleeding for no reason
It was just a random cut that appeared.
Great explanation/ video. I use the 16 x 16 art set baseplates under my modulars and off brand bricks and official lego plates on my roads.
Sounds great!
I've waited since about the third channel video for this lol
It’s been planned for a while, seemed like a good one to pre-record to release while we were on holiday!
Advice please, whilst I 'sort of' understand MILS plates, how do you make them just for set collectors? We are nowhere near ready for a Lego room, but like to move our Displays around every so often, how would you MILS plate Rivendell?
Work out how many plates you need to sit it on, then just plop in on top would be my advice!
And then, in all the spare space around the set, you can add landscape, foliage, etc to enhance the build.
There are lots of great examples of the Medieval Blacksmith done this way, with wells, ponds, paths and more trees
Also if it is displayed, you probably want the seen edges to all be the same colour
I really never see the point of MILS plate, the cost does not justify the benefit, i can move all my modulars with the original plate no problem at all. The amount of plastic needed to build is crazy. How do put lights in the channel when you have built a modular building on the base, you can't just peel up a 4x4 plate?
It’s easier than you’d think to lift up the individual plates. Most of the building can come up in one go, that’s how I transferred the Sanctum Sanctorum onto a MILS plate. Trying to move that one upstairs on its original plate is what convinced me to move to MILS, it was very wobbly. I would hate to move something like the Avengers Tower on its original plate. Plus, without MILS the roads would be higher than the curb. So lots of benefits!
You'll find, over a short period of time, that the corners of the baseplates, once built on, start to 'curl up' at the corners.
Nothing major, but enough to be noticeable.
Yes you could of course connect the corners with maybe 1x4, 1x6, or 1x8 light grey tiles.
You definitely need to shop around more when buying parts, new 2x2 bricks are around 3-4p each on bricklink in the quantities you bought instead of the 9p per brick you paid.
Great video and showing how do mils plate. Lv to see how you put train track on as I don't understand the instructions. Lv seeing you lego city coming together xxx
This was very interesting. What would happen if you put another base plate on top instead of all the individual white pieces? So it was like a brick sandwich?
Oh, just got to this part in the vid haha
Baseplates don't have a way of making a connection to bricks from the underside. You need to use plates.
I hadn’t realised this, thank you
Thank you! would you suggest using it underneath the Disney Castle which is stand alone? it’s so difficult and awkward to move it at all. 🤗🏴
The problem with that is it’s an awkward shape, so if makes it more difficult. Not impossible, but more difficult. We haven’t done it for the Disney castle. Just for the stuff in the city they’ll be moved around more often.
Just binge watched all the videos on the channel so far in the last 24 hours after coming over from your travel channel! Love all this content. Don’t really build that much Lego myself but find all the videos on here really relaxing and fun! 😊
Awesome! Thank you!
I've watched all your videos on this channel and never bought lego in my life haha but love you guys, enjoy the content and now considering maybe a Disney or Harry Potter build haha
Glad you like them!
Probably the best explanation and demonstration of a MILS plate so far… 👍
Good job 👏👏👏
Glad it was helpful!
One thing I was wondering about what happened to your finger 😂
I cut it. Not sure how.
I built my first MILS for Sanctum set, fully enclosed the sides, which wasn't necessary. I've not found Brickowl any cheaper than Bricklink. It might be worth playing with Studio, as I'm sure there's some good cheats for building just facades and outsides of some buildings, keeping the cost down by removing play features etc. Then you can buy the other half of that fugly train :D
The train is great! It looks like an actual train!
@@blockpartyuk :) it's only half a train so far :D there are better looking trains though. The yellow and blue one is a good example (60197)
Dont know of you know this but brickowl can be cheaper for bricks rather than bricklink...
I’ll check them out next time I’m looking for stuff
@@blockpartyuk its the uk version of bricklink.i used to sell on both and noticed it can be cheaper as it has a smaller audience
WHAT IS A MILS PLATE????
I guess we’ll never know
Pro tip, don’t worry about buying actual Lego baseplates, buy third party save a little money.
Are they knock off base plates but do they still work and if so what’s the website?
I agree I don’t use any actual lego pieces for my plates brings the cost way down
Yeah, I don’t use Lego baseplates. I get third party ones off of Amazon.
Yeah I get my tech and 2x2 from AliExpress just saves me money which I’d rather spend on Lego sets haha