CazMockett's LEGO® Rambles
The Architecture: US Capitol Building (21030) set is the biggest I got for Christmas. It kept me amused for most of Boxing Day while I was still feeling grotty with the lurgy. It’s a lovely model with loads of details and a shed load of Erling (headlight) bricks (4070)! It took a few hours to build but was very satisfying.
All that sand green for the roof! Lovely!
Another big set I got for Christmas is the iconic Architecture Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (21035), which is one I have been wanting since I first seeing the theme. The real building is a mad shape and it has been rendered very well in LEGO here. It’s the second time this subject has appeared in the Architecture line. The original set (21004) was one of the earliest Architecture sets released – but personally I’m not keen on it as it is far less detailed and there are too many studs visible.
This version, however, is much closer to the real thing, and is perfectly in scale for Micropolis – the yellow taxis on the road in front are exactly the same as they would be in Micropolis. I am contemplating whether I should put it on a Micropolis 1/2 block base, but I will have to see. It does look good on the base it comes with in the meantime.
The first set that I built from my Christmas Haul was the third Architecture Skyline model that I own, New York City (21028).
The model starts small with the Statue of Liberty and works its way up to the One World Trade Center. There were some excellent techniques for microscale buildings, which I must try to remember for some of my Micropolis MOCs.
I’ve been after the Architecture series Flatiron Building (21032) for a while now, and found a decent used copy on eBay a few days ago.
It’s a lovely build, with some great SNOT techniques. Ever since I first saw it, I’ve thought it would make a great little Micropolis module, so I took it off its original base and built it onto a quarter block baseplate.
With the addition of some landscaping around the concourse, it looks really good and will make a striking feature in my little Micropolis city.
My second Architecture Skyline set is the London Skyline (21034), topical as it’s my nearest city which has been immortalised in LEGO this way.
It is quite a bit deeper than the Berlin set I already have, mainly to accommodate somewhere for the London Eye to sit behind Big Ben and Tower Bridge. There were some interesting building techniques, and I think it represents the essence of London pretty well.
