This bustling port scene was a four-day collaboration between my brother Isaiah and I. It’s got lots of tiny details, forced perspective, palm trees, and those obnoxiously difficult things to build, gabled roofs.
Like most all-LEGO scenes, it was hard to get all the details in one shot!
The whole MOC is pretty large, with the biggest section being the houses and port. You can also see the lights under the water in this picture, though unfortunately they didn’t really come through at all in the final angles.
I built all the tudor houses, which aside from the roofs, were pretty fun. I used a lot of the relatively new 1×1 hump pieces to add some texture to the walls and built the stonework on the bottom with lots of half-plate offsets and sideways bricks.
It was fun to find multiple scales for the same object–like the barrels, which are full size in the foreground, then the size of an upside down pail, and finally just a round 1×1 brick.
The same for the palm trees, which gradually became shorter and with less leaves until the farthes ones are just the tiny 3-leaf stems on brown horns.
This microscale ship was built separately by Isaiah, but it was just the right size for our collab here, so although it’s barely visible in the final pictures, it’s there and fully rigged!
The build started with this house, and from there I down-scaled my techniques to build the smaller tudor houses.
Of course, none of the houses are 360 viewable. This one has some scaffolding around back.
On this next one you can see better what I did for the stone work–mostly brackets and bricks with studs on one side, but a few clip and bar connections too.
The mountains around back are completely sideways–a technique that allowed us to build fairly large mountains without using too many pieces.
Of course, the best part of this creation was building all the little crates and boxes for the foreground! I had fun with the turtle cage especially.
You can find the story this build is meant to tell on Eurobricks, and you might also enjoy looking behind the scenes of some of my other creations:
- LEGO Fighting Pit
- Behind the Scenes: Forbidden Friendship
- Build Log: Waterwheel
- Behind the Scenes: Space Travel Poster
- Behind the Scenes: Red Sea
- Behind the Scenes: Fire!
- Behind the Scenes – Ladyhawke
- Behind the Scenes: Space Tank
- Behind the Scenes: A Forest Drive
- Behind the Scenes: Tea Shop
- Behind the Scenes: Rice Terraces
- Behind the Scenes: Qarkyr Box Gardens
Geneva D 
This is wonderful to see! So neat to see behind the scenes on how things are constructed to put the scene together. Almost like a hollywood movie set. I noticed this article isn’t tagged as Lego so I didn’t see it in your lego blog listing!
Oh, good catch! It’s clearly been too long since I’ve posted… 😉
Thank you! Yes, using the blue scaffolding around back felt especially appropriate and was really fun.