I heard somewhere that the Swedish AFOLs is among the best in the world at Community Builds ...
... which is nice for us.
In this first of the CB episodes we will take a look at three different pieces.
We start with CB City.
A CB is a Community Build wich is to jointly build together ...
... and then during an event you build up the whole thing and it will be a large piece.
Then you get the big even though you do not have to build everything yourself.
You can just build a smaller part.
What is important with Community Build is that you have quite clear framework ...
... where the boundaries go between the different sections.
In order to easily be able to connect it without looking wierd.
My name is Oscar Rydhé, called OZP.
I have planned this CB. CB City it is called.
We are about 10 people who have helped to build this province.
New parts that I have built for this exhibition is the S-curve and tunnel.
I have also built a new train to this exhibiion and it's a 241 Hector Rail.
Hector Rail is based here in Hallsberg which is next to Orebro.
That's why I built that model.
And for that one I have also built new container wagons that are 'Bricks from Sweden' Advertising.
A 241 Hectorrail.
It is built in 7 wide.
Which is a bit dicey. You have to use lots of small plates to get it together.
But the result is pretty good I think.
In the 80s LEGO had current in the rails. As you are used with other model railways.
But because US rules they went over to the plastic in the mid 90s.
And that's what we use here.
So all the trains have batteries in them.
That drives the motors.
Lego uses the this kind of IR remote controls.
And in the trains there's an IR receiver.
It's great when you're a kid and want to run your trains home. But it is less great at shows.
Not only can fluorescent lamps and stuff disrupt it.
Secondly, the range is quite poor, so if you have a train that is on the other side of the table ...
... the remote does not always reach.
Therefore, we have gone over to a 3rd-party system called SBrick and uses Bluetooth instead.
And then, I have built a program in the Raspberry Pi.
Which controls this.
So we have a computer that controls the trains.
It is a railway as a start.
With 3 tracks, circular tracks.
With a large railway yard.
Then we have a neighborhood too.
With a lot of houses, roads and cars.
This CB varies from exhibit to exhibit. Depending on who is coming.
The planning started in March.
Where we drew up the guidelines.
In broad terms how the layout would look like. Then we'll fill it out by hand as people sign up.
So it never looks the same on two exhibitions.
This Gothic cathedral, we are happy that we got by.
It's Wineyard who built it.
It's amazing.
Then we also have Kloss. The department store here. That Dalle built.
Then we tried to do a Batman scene here with some official set.
As the kids think is great fun. That they recognize.
This is actually the oldest CB available.
It is based on the LEGO CC standard. Their modular housing.
It started by people who took their own houses. Built their own house and brought.
And then we put up a railway around.
And then, there has since evolved from exhibit to exhibit. That we have built a little more.
And now we've got the rail ballast and moduverse plates.
These roads are brick built roads instead of LEGOs base plate roads.
And that does a lot to make it look much better.
We thank you for the visit in CB City and will soon have a look at the enormous CB Train Land.
That one is also in the lineup that was on the Klossfestivalen 2017.
But first we'll get to know a little about the entry-level-CB Atheria.
Hi. My name is Peter Ilmrud and has the alias Zilmrud on Swebrick and in other forums.
And I'm Thomas Krzeminski - Lordflintstone.
I Zilmrud and Lordflintstone are responsible for CB Atheria.
Wich is a fantasy-CB with elements of Steampunk.
It takes place in a fragmented world, where the world's parts floating around in the aether.
And this is an entry-CB. It is for beginners will be able to come in with a light threshold.
One can build only a small island or a small creature or little air vehicles.
So one can be in the CB and the big picture without the need to build huge and invest large sums ...
... of money and pieces.
The advantage is that it is quite easy to connect these islands.
We have suspension bridges that you connect them with and then you can have certain access points.
It is not so much the rules that govern and not so brick demanding, as I said.
And if the tables are uneven that doesn't do anything. Or if you have a different height ...
... that is compensated by the suspended bridges.
So it is a bit easier than another CB.
They bridges we have built up out of these strings with pieces that can be put clips on.
And ordinary tiles 1x4.
And then create a bridge that is very moving.
You can change the color scheme of it if you want. You can do it specifically so that you know whose bridge is whose.
They you connect these with the studs on the islands.
And, in that it is so bendy, it can be both curved and straight and twisted in different directions.
Which makes it much easier to place them on the islands so that it will look good on an exhibition.
There is no war in this CB and there are no police. Everything is hunky-dory here and all are doing well.
It is a little nice in contrast to everything else in the world.
Yes, there are no weapons and there are soldiers or such.
Otherwise, it's that the world was split sometime in the future. We do not know when.
So the earth became little pieces floating around in a fog.
And out of this fog as it came out some creatures that floated around and flying around.
And with time they learned to tame them and fly around on them.
A large part of what you can move around things with is this crystal, Aethernit.
And it also uses a fairly simple form of steam engines to power the airships and other things.
The aethernit also lifts up all the islands. That's what makes it float.
So you can use aethernit, if you do not have airships with balloons, you can ...
... attach it and get the airships to lift with the aethernit.
Here is my first big airship.
The idea was that there would be little organic. While the entire CB is. At the same time as it is a ship.
So it is a tree that serves as the mast. Which has grown through while holding up the pod under the ship.
And because it is not in the water it does not matter that there is something under the ship.
There are sleeping quarters for the ship in the pod.
And it is a hospital ship.
So here we have some twins who have just been born.
Small things..
I'm quite pleased with it actually.
Much beacuse of the organic. Makes it work with the tree.
Though it is steam and machines they still marry together.
The CB is built out of alot of nature.
Because you have collected the islands from different areas and created a society.
But over time we have developed the CB by building more cities and urban areas.
Now the latest we have is Morena.
Last year, Dalle has taken the initiative to build a capital city called Morena.
Wich is partly based on Venice. So he started with this part.
And we thought it was a very good idea.
The difference is that there are stone bridges. They are richer. They can afford to have stone bridges.
So then we span on that and then, this was an old building from Ooger, and then I built this.
That'll be about the same style though it'll be a whole block.
And then we have used stone bridges. But to get the flexibility we use a simple piece like this.
It wobbles a little bit so that the height can be adjusted one or two plates. Almost 3 plates.
If you not only use plates underneath.
And you can have on the sides. So that you do not have to have all of the islands completely straight.
Though it is rigid bridges. It works great.
This area was the first part that I built to Atheria.
It's the Owl Inn. Happy Owl.
I like very much when I build to have a little story. So I've made up ...
... all personalities and what happens here.
A little jealousy and the little funny things.
A pig chasing an ant here.
Here is one, you may not see it but, a slaughtered pig hanging and bleeding a little.
A skunk being slaughtered herein.
Small stuff when you see a whole build they say 'Yes, it's fine.
But then one can deepen one self and find small details that you think is fun.
What I got stuck with this CB was mainly the nature and to get them here leafy environments.
But also what is the Steampunk part of it all.
Hence, I have made an airship that was one of my first creations.
That is very much golden details and brown.
Wich is lifted up by balloons and a steam engine.
Then we have a bit more green islands with a little more nature. More flowers and a little more color.
A bit more history behind it. This build for example is one that purifies rainwater since water as a scarce resource.
You can try some different techniques. This was my first MOC actually.
Then we have expanded it to a bigger island.
Where you can look at it from many different directions.
A market with few houses around it.
And a lot of hustle and bustle. And a lot of different parts of nature around the whole build.
I also have one of these Ichtyoid.
I have rebuilt an official set so that it becomes a bit more fishy, flying creature.
One of my favorite techniques is half a stud in.
When you use a jumper plate so you get the brick in a little bit.
It is a simple technique but I think it was a beautiful structure out of it.
Very easy to use and does not not swallow alot o bricks.
The Easy Build Tip.
What we are going to look at here is something as simply as a corn plant.
And the reason I want to show you it is, as you will see in the CB Train Land ...
... that if you put very many together in a field, it will be a very cool and groovy effect.
It looks very nice out anyways. And therefore I intend to show you how to do this even though it's very simple.
The design itself is very simple. It consists of 2 of these plant parts.
There are those here bamboo leaves and these common flower stems.
And then on them you put regular 1x1 round plates. Yellow.
You use 2 or 3, you can choose as you like, just click in and then you will take it in the order ...
... as you like. Mix different stems.
One can often start with a flowering plant at the bottom.
And then a couple there and bamboo on.
You vary on the different onces because it's supposed to be a living, organic thing. You put it just as you want.
Click together and then have one of those.
And as I said, the fun effect you will shortly see the CB Train Land.
Hi. Carl T on Swebrick. Carl Troein.
I am one of the five builders in CB Train Land.
Along with Andreas, standing over there right now.
He has built a little more than I have in this.
And he was the one that started this CB if i'm not misstaken.
And who keeps track of us and makes the layout etc in it.
Since we now have currently 5 builders. We have had a sixth man, but we have never been more than 5 who built simultaneously.
So it has moved on and changed the builders afterwards and expanded and reconfigured as we have rebuilt parts.
I chose to start in this part that actually are amongst the newest.
So this is Linköping Central.
Built for Swebricks big exhibition in Linköping in March this year.
So it has been with us in March and have been here now.
And I suspect that Andreas, soon will demolish it and build something else of the pieces.
For after all it is something big and living. Various bits rebuilt.
So this is his station where you see a lot of familiar characters.
Right now I see actually no, yes Scooby Doo is there.
Scooby Doo. The children like to find familiar faces here.
A little multicolored bicycles and other things are here and you can see the trains whizzing by here all the time.
Right now Östgötapendeln wich was also built for the exhibition in Linköping.
Of OZP, Oscar, who is at the CB City.
Peter, Ibbe, has been a part of the buildi here. Maybe we should go in this direction.
Here is Peter's part, which is a port. A large waterfront.
With many tracks and a lot of trains that is set.
Some of his own wagons and so on.
In a previous version of this, a year ago or so here was a proper big open empty space where they were building something.
And suddanly we saw what they had managed to build.
Namely, silos and one smaller building here.
Over here in the harbor is now a ship inside.
Here are a number of cranes that are working.
Over here there is a crane that actually works.
A motorized larger crane that can lift containers, drop and grab them.
Move them between trucks and trains.
It happens a lot of things out there in the harbor. I do not really know what these guys are doing.
But you see, there is hustle and bustle of it.
Not least because of the trains that are constantly whizzing around here.
One of the things that made this build, I do not want to say possible but definitely been a contributing factor ...
... that it has become as it has been is that the association as a whole worked towards this moduverse standard.
Going over from those base plates. LEGOs 32x32 flimsy sheets to a more stable standard.
One can possibly see it here.
They are therefore two bricks high.
Still, as the basic unit 32x32 but it varies much more.
And we've also a standard for the roads how they should look.
Right here is something a little special for this is a shift of the railroad so here goes up a little higher.
But otherwise it is a standard where the roads are made of bricks.
Light Bluish Gray and White.
And then, we have of course a standard for how it should look. So that we can build a lot of road and take with us.
Putting in the middle here. Also very handy as dividers.
Allows a little more reconfiguration of the buildi so that it does not have to match exactly with how broad the modules are.
But this build works otherwise so that we have an allocation how large piece each one should build.
So many plates, four and a half plate deep and so many plates wide. With the railroad tracks.
A half plate from the edge, so to speak, so that we have a small strip out here that you can then fill with ...
... in my case, I just filled it with rubbish I was about to say, but nearly so.
I have only covered the ground with weeds.
But I have some ideas about what should grow up there, too.
Precisely this is my piece.
There is apparently a farm. Or it's probably not a fully functioning farm, given that ...
... there is not so much land. I think of it more as a 4H-farm.
Which may also explain why there is so much kids running around here.
And a very lot of adults right now. There is currently happening something, they dig and someone is running pigs etc.
The latest addition to my part is a little color on the roof there. It has not happened so much here since Linköping.
What more can one say!? The hippie has apparently died there.
There was a hippie that fed the goats inside.
I'm a little happy that I have nine goats.
I bought them before they became so very, very expensive.
House in Sand blue. I have more sand blue at home. Should maybe build it bigger or prettier anyway.
Yes, they're here rail posts.
The posts to the railroad, I can say something about them too.
It is as you can see a lot of windows.
Again inspired out of something we saw on the web somewhere.
And yes, you see here are lances and one of these little hands holding a stick.
It is the kind of thing that happens when determining a standard before the pieces have gone off in price.
So I feel a bit sorry for those who venture into this now and will buy these windows for 20SEK ($2.2 USD) each.
My part ends here somewhere. I have little forest too, apparently.
Great fun to transport these trees.
They are full and fine now. They will be full and fine when I put them in a box on Sunday.
And is fine in bubble wrap.
They make it home. They make it to the next show, and then when I raise them out of the box, then all the leaves fall off.
I have learned from experience. They then shake off so when you lift them all comes off.
Here in the forest, it happens not so much. The pigs have escaped.
Running around there now with some other small animals.
I do not really know what the scout where going to do with the knife but it gives itself well.
Then we have a transition. It does not appear so clearly. There are also some fun this.
To try to build the transitions between our modules.
Right now, here's a crack, but it's only because the tables are so uneven.
To try to build it so that it blends together. So that the ground is not completely mismatched and so.
And here is Janimakays part.
That is a little trees, forest, and then a sawmill that is making things with wood
Small details, if you look.
The man here who's in a great hurry to that building there.
Whatever he is going to do in there.
Here things happen too. Hustle and bustle.
It loads. It disengages. It runs away somewhere.
I like what's been done here. Right here with these moduverse plates that you can play with the depth ...
... in them too so that you can go down and have such immersed for water.
And of course then also raised.
Which you obviously can do with a standard base plate also but it's not that exciting.
I will show an example when raised, here we have a hill.
And now we are on Andreas, Kwagges, part.
So this is a hill and on this hill hides regulators to 9-volt rail.
Right now we feed from the other end but there is so that it can supply power from this end.
And if you look at the track it's not the new plastic rail, but the older metal rails.
In addition to, the observant see that this curve is just too wide, large, not tight.
So it is not LEGO's own track. This is the new ME-rail.
In the metal version.
So purists say _Well that it is not Lego, but we say -Well it's much nicer like this.
And it's compatible. Works great.
The ballast is a little to fix course since it lays on top of the curves. But it works.
The trains chug and chug and chug along here.
He has a lot of ground, and much corn here, Andreas.
Very good-looking plants. What you can do with these different plant parts.
As I understand it, it's alot of BrickLink in this.
There is little LUG-bulk also in parts of trees and stuff. If people wonder where the bricks come from.
Much details. One must stand here and watch to see everything that happens.
The rabbits have some little deliberation here. The dogs have their on the other side.
I think it's awesome that Andreas has found a way to incorporate his ...
... badge bricks and bricks from such different events as he has been on in the actual layout.
To actually sit there like a container and looks quite reasonable out.
I'm just carrying around mine. It's getting a bit long this. Cracked and break and fall on the floor.
I like this house apparently. It's a nice half-timbered house.
Here is a lot of hustle and bustle in the builds, which I think is very important too.
It's the kind of thing that makes people stop and look.
Just as one can get into those little stuff, too, and not just the big nice buildings ...
... but also the small details. The scenes where things happens.
Here are people out walking all around. There are animals.
And so we come to, I was about to say the last bit, but it's one of those earliest pieces here.
Robbans major industrial area.
Well what can we say about it. It's great, it's awesome, very uniform. And terribly nicely, I think.
It's really just to stand and watch it. Just enjoy the surroundings.
This little drab.
And trucks and forklifts and other things working in here.
Out here happens some little scene also. Someone who tinkers with a motorcycle.
Looks almost like a motorcycle club that keeps there.
In a little suspicious area.
The trees are of course one of those things that one can distinguish us on, that we all have different styles of how we build our trees.
So if you are not sure which piece goes with which. I think the trees is almost the safest way to determine that.
And that is about it.
If you also want to build this sweet Lamborghini, the instructions are on the creator ...
... Jerry Builds Bricks YouTube.
Now he is not a Swedish AFOL but that does not matter because this is after all a series on the passion for LEGO.
Yes Great Community Builds are always fascinated.
And what great cities we have seen in this episode.
Another man who builds very large cities on his own is Jörgen Fagerlund and him we will meet in the next episode.
What !? 100 bucks for some gas. Come on. What is this?!
Contact: patrik.hansson@hotmail.se
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