What Size Cars Should You Use In A Lego City ?
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- What Size Cars Should You Use In A Lego City ?
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I agree. 6 wide vehicles are the max for a LEGO city. Thanks for the recommendations!
Absolutely
You can build six wide and seven wide cars and easily fit two lego characters in if you use jumper plates.
I was thinking along the same. You perfectly pointed out the Issue with 8-wide cars. Good for model building and details, not for city. But I rather have one minifig than to amputate body parts 😁
🤣 🤣 well the other option is 1x2 brick with a jumper and a head mounted :)
Use jumper plates to offset the seats and make the roofs 5 wide. You do have to sacrifice having actual windshield parts with this method though and just settle for the pillars.
I have to say I completely agree with you, Daryl. It doesn’t make any sense at all to see an eight wide car in someones city with semis and trains 6 wide. I personally like 6 wide cars, 8 wide semis and trains 8-9 wide. Cool trick with removing an arm to make them fit.
I'm with you and seriously considering doing some 8 wide trains soon.
@@BevinsBricksWorld if you want some realistic trains check out bulletbricks. He sells instructions.
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Awesome. And I agree! I only do 6 wide in my city
Hate you can't fit 2 figs but they look better by buildings.
Finding the right scale of a minifigure is impossible.
If you take the height and compare it to an avarage human you get an other scale, than comparing the width. It gets crazier if you compare head or hand size.
So the real minifigure scale of a car is just a personal preferance. 😉
The problem is minifigs are not to scale, so you basically must work off what works or looks best to the individual builder as you said.
I will definitely be investing in some of their Car Mocs. They look incredible! Especially that police car.
The police car I modified a little, both color and length, but the original model is great as well.
Those cars look really good. 👍🏻
I 100% agree Daryl.
Totally agree with you
I agree 😊😊😊that's the size I use for my custom lego slotcars 😊😊😊
You have Lego slot cars ? That would be awesome to race around a track
I make my roads to fit trucks and vans that are 7-8 studs wide, with cars at 6. This goes closely to the 1/35 scale I’m going for (disregarding figure scale entirely). My only complaint is that a five stud windscreen would be the perfect size for a six stud wide car.
Yeah I wish they made a 5 wide screen it would make things so much better.
Thanks, Daryl. I'll be taking a look at those builders.
They have some great designs
As much as I like the added detail of the 8x Speed Champions, moving away from 6x cars killed the line for me. I always bought them to be highly-realistic cars in my city, and at the new size, they just don’t work.
I agree and I only buy the new ones to modify down to 6 wide
As I don't have a city I do prefer the realism of the 8-wide cars. I think one way to solve the problem of putting 2 mini-figures side by side in a 6-wide is to slightly stagger (by 1 stud) the two seats. This means you don't have to remove the arms.
I love 8 wide and speed champions, but i do kind of agree. They do feel too big at times, and look especially weird when people dont scale up other vehicles like semi trucks Or delivery vans.
Yeah that's another issue and then you need 10 wide trains also
@@BevinsBricksWorld a 10 wide train would be sweet though lol
Oh yeah I've seen some amazing 10 wide trains
A 1954 Chrysler Crown Imperial might be suitable for an 8-wide car in a scene, if you are modeling a scene where people live in certain parts of the US where streets or roads are already wide enough for it. I don't know if anyone's attempted to build one in LEGO, though! In America, at least, wider cars were the norm in the 50's, nowadays, it's all trending to narrower cars because auto makers figured out it's cheaper to build a narrower car that is much safer.
Yeah most 50 thru to 70s were all what we called boats lol. Because they were so large and heavy they rolled down the road with they slow float to then lol.
Andrew Somers has some nice minifig-scale SUVs and trucks. His channel is Somers Lego and he sells instructions on Rebrickable.
Awesome thanks
Totally agree!
This was the main reason for me to stop collecting the Speed Champions range.
I guess 4½ stud cars and 6 stud trucks would be the ultimate scale for a city layout.
But 6 stud builds makes for the best compromise in scale versus design realism.
Yeah that would be the ideal sizes I agree.
only time i do 8 studs is my dump truck and other larger vehicles
Agreed! I primarily use 6-stud cars in my city and a few 4-stud cars for older/cheaper models. (I like your potholes in the road plates! I'll have to do that too.)
I always liked the old 4 wide cars, simple easy designs
Great video Daryl have a great rest of your week 👍
Another great video thanks
Thanks
Outstanding video of the cars 🚗 and how they fit .Keep on bricking it up Daryl 👍.
Thanks James I appreciate it.
Agreed. The Speed Champion sized cars are just too big for a LEGO city. The 6 stud definitely works better with the scale. That Trans Am MOC looks great, I'll have to pick that one up.
Totally agree and I'm sure the builders will be very happy.
They went up to 8-wide and still didn't make them have opening doors and front/rear with engine bay!
I’m biased towards vintage LEGO so I like 4 wide
I've always felt like people make cars (and buildings) way too large for minifigures, Even though you can't fit two minifigs easily, I generally prefer 5 studs wide for the small cars, 6 wide for most cars, and 7 wide for larger vehicles like box trucks.
That's a very good size selection. I agree but hate building odd widths
That firebird is so cool. It looks so close to the real deal.
Some great designs
What size for buses etc? I think I will go 6 wide cars but bigger for trucks. And the batmobile will stay as is because it's the batmobile!
Well can't mess with with batman :)
Hi, I find you CAN put 2 minifigs side by side in a six stud - you don't even have to stagger by one stud, you put them side by side but with one leaning slightly forwards and one leaning back. The backwards leaning one needs to have his arm behind him as well. I will do a tutorial on this later today to demonstrate. Great vid BTW, and I agree with you that 6 studs is the best vehicle scale.
I acknowledge 8-wides are kinda too big, but I am a car builder first and have about 15 years of sunk cost into building 8-wides, so a bit late now. The main thing with the buildings is just parking spaces/garages, the big issue is trains: initially I tried building 10-wide trains, but they were a nightmare for a variety of reasons, so now my cars and trains are both the same width, lol!
As far as 6-wide cars go, I've built a couple as experiments. Making the roof 5-wide really helps them not feel so weird and allows you to still fit two figs side by side with jumper plates, though you can't use windshield pieces with this method. I also enjoy detail and playability with my builds, so both 6 and 8-wides have opening doors, hoods, trunks, and engine bays. Even managed to add folding rear seats and spare tire compartments on a couple of the 8-wides!
I agree the details that can be added to 8 wide are absolutely perfect.
I thought the solution for 2 figs in a 6 wide was to use 1x3 tiles with 2 studs (jumpers?) inside the car where they sit?? I even saw that on Rebrickable…
Only if you build the car with the door piece
8 wide looks better with figs. But I also think the buildings should be bigger so I see ur point
Yeah I love 8 wide cars but it messes with sizing. Then you also need 8 to 10 wide trains as well.
It is not only minifigs, but also door frames, that constantly break scale. A good workaround might be to look at toy manufacturers who use 1:32 scale and there are many animals, cars and people available in that scale. Building at scale and for minifigs at the same time is always frustrating with lego bricks as you never can get proportions right or what looks okay for one person might look totally wrong for another one. You either build a car that looks real ( say 1:32) or that fits a minifig, but than you have to use 1:24 scale and 1:45 scale at the same time and the result will not look like a real car but too wide and too low.
Yes it's definitely a trade off. Very difficult to find good compromises
You can put 2 minifigures with arms in a 6-wide vehicle
Yes but not with the way I am building the cars
You need some 5 wide windshields.
They don't make them do they ?
@@BevinsBricksWorld Not that I know of. On one of my few dabbles into 6-wide cars I used two small antennas rotated and angled to meet the roof for the windshield and 1x2 slopes set at an angle for the rear pillars. You just have to say the window glass is _really_ clear!
Im ok with cars being 6 wide but larger trucks (like semis, dump trucks) should be 8.
I think 8-stud wide speed champions are best for afols. However I don’t think Lego should have stopped making them 6-stud wide either. Lego should have just split the line into two different genres. The 6-stud wide vehicles more common every cars and trucks. The 8-stud wide could be more of your specific exotic and super and hyper cars.
Would be awesome if they made both I agree. I loved the older 6 wide ones.
The speed champions look so good but are to big fir city roads
I love the speed champions just not for City displays
Awesome video
Thanks Rob 😊
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@@natemr4482 hey
I say 6 wide max, EXCEPT for the Batmobile which can be 8 wide.
I agree 6 wide is best for most cars. I do love the details you can add with 8 wide, but they look way to big in a city display.
@@BevinsBricksWorld I think the Batmobile can be oversized because it's a hero car. It's imposing. It stands out in the city among the others.
Of course, as it is larger than normal cars because it was a military vehicle. Im refering to vehicles like the tumbler.
@@BevinsBricksWorld I think even the new 1989 set (76224) works too.
I just wish Lego would make a Batman TAS one.
6wide
I get what you’re saying but I just can’t get past the single middle seating.
Lol, well you pop the arms and make it 2 :)
@@BevinsBricksWorld I’m not going to risk messing up my figures.
I'm gonna have to say this is where we part ways in our beliefs Daryl my brother. I absolutely love the way that the 8w cars look for the size of the minifig. Now granted I plan on also making my mils road plates 10w to support the size of car. Now you might be wondering then how do I plan on having a sidewalk for my roads, and my answer to that sir is simply this. I've decided that MY Lego city is going to be VERY different from the rest, and because of these differences, i'm going to require more space than others to do it! I plan for 10w roads, possibly 12w lanes for highways or avenues even! As for the sidewalks, well i've decided that my sidewalks will be on their very own mils plate that is half the normal baseplates (the 32x16), except used longways on each side of the road plates! Then will come the baseplate for each and every building! I know this will be much grander in both size and requirement, but I'm good with it! Everyone does their LEGO cities alike in a ton of ways. I want to break from that pattern and find my own way. You may not like the style for your own personal building selections, but I'm sure you will like the way it all works together and how it comes out. Afterall, we can like things that we wouldn't ourselves prefer to do, right? This is what I believe will make my city unique to me, and this is what I enjoy, so in the end, as long as we make ourselves happy with the LEGOs we own, isn't that the point of it all? I just can't wait to start putting it all together, which is one of 100's of reasons that the wife and I are looking to actually buy our own house and finally be done with all the traveling and the apartments from year to year. We want some property to walk and to grow a garden on. A little shack that I can build for the wife to work and write creativly out off, and a LEGO Barn, kinda like you have Daryl! Yes, nothing like grabbing up a piece of God's green Earth is there?
They look horrible if you are using official modular buildings. They are entirely to large. Like I said in the video with larger buildings they look good but not with smaller builds they are way out of scale.
Are you going to post any of this on TH-cam? Because I would love to see updates and how it would physically and visually turn out. I've been searching for unique city layouts and not just the 32x32 roads and modulars system that so many use. I would love to see this city!
6 Wide cars are the way. Lol
I have to agree with you I hope you plan on posting videos of your progress I’d love to follow your journey.
8 wide looks terrible. It's 6 or nothing.
Lego minifigs are not proportioned as standard humans. Legoland is a world inhabited almost solely by dwarves.
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What can I say? I'm a total speed champions shill. I modified my city's roads to accommodate the eight wide cars. I know they are a bit too large, but all of that detail though...
Oh you can't argue the 8 wide cars are awesome no doubt.