It really wouldn't surprise me that sometime in the not too distant future Lego will bring out an actual curved plate. It makes Economic sense on their part!
2 years later asnd still no curve. Not sure if LEGO plans on killing this line someday but the old printed baseplates seem far superior. Videos like this are the ones that make me doubt if the new road plates are for me
I still can't believe that LEGO hasn't came up with a Curve piece for their new "WONDERFUL" road plate system! Honestly, I'm just gonna build my own roads, bricked out. To hell with the cost, because you can't do "Looks Right" for cheap in my opinion at least. The systems I will be using is the 1x3 Black Bricks, with White and Yellow Lines built into the road, and the road uses SNOT technique to build the road. With this style of road build I have seen great roads using SNOT, and using the same SNOT technique you can get really smooth inclining and declining hills, and I'm going to use this system and find a way to do a really smooth curve as well. perhaps the curve will be Studs on Top, but transfer to a SNOT for the straights and the hills. Not entirely sure just jet. One thing that I would absolutely love to figure out though, not just curves, but curves with banks in them at varying degrees! Now I know most roads don't have banks in them (actually all black top roads that curve have them for rain fall off, but yeah), but my thinking is that I would love to have a modern city area, and an "Old Towne" kind of area, and have them seperated by a nice long and winding country back roads (as well as a highway also available too) for scenic routes, and I was thinking just how awesome would it be to figure out how to have an enbankment in my road as it curves around those winding country/mountain roads? The more I think about it though, the more I realize that what I come up with for my ideas are more than likely going to be something completely custom built and then LEGOs sit on top of it, and it works for exactly what I am wanting, but then again how many folks have room for 2 cities, much less a long and winding Country/Mountain backroads scenic route seperating them? Honestly, I may not even have the room for it until we get into the new house!
My roads are all snot built as well. You can look under my Playlist and see how I do them and curves. The one thing I do want to point out to you though is if you're going to do brick built roads do not use 1x3 Bricks. Use 1x6 or larger. This is why I say that when you're using the smaller bricks it ends up leaving a very large gap between each Mils snot built Brick Road you make. The roads will look a lot more fluent in decorative if you go one by sixes or larger on the brick and you won't have as large a gap between each one of your road plates.
This looks not bad at all. Yeah the broken white outside line is a pity, but generally it looks quite natural. One point I noticed and could be improved: you start with three 1x3 wedge plates, followed by two 1x4 wedge plates and finish again with three 1x3 wedge plates. Wouldn't it be better to start/stop with the two 1x4 wedge plates and put the six 1x3 wedge plates in the middle? (Because angle of 1x4 is smaller then 1x3, and thus you a more natural transition)
I dunno if we were reading each one's mind, but after I obtained my first new road plate (bought the Skate Park yesterday), I thought about a similar solution for the white lines, but using 1x4 instead of 1x2 white tiles. Or even not having white lines at all. The only difference is about the outer sidewalk: my only idea was to make it more "blocky", and less curvy than yours.
To get the curved white line why not use a white 4x4 curved brick fixed at both ends? It would stand three plates proud of the road but would be a solid barrier to keep the two traffic lanes apart and could be extended to link up with the adjacent white printed lines - maybe with a sloped pice.
Why wouldn't you just do a right angle turn? It would save all the trouble. A curve isn't really necessary in a lego city since everything is blocky anyway. It fits the motif to keep things straight. Just a thought.
To be honest: I only see the fails of Lego in this video. You now have a plate, thats not wide enought for streets (cause cars need more width than them), so you need to put more bricks around everywhere to integrate them. Why should i use/buy them, if they just add more things that i have to fix? How Lego could sell something without proper curves? And why are they much more expensive, if they have that much disadvantages?
Hey man I have really enjoyed your videos, just started putting together my own LEGO city and your videos have been very informative. I was trying to find the rebrickable link for the curved road plates but couldn't find it. Am I just over looking it somewhere? Again your videos are great!
I actually took a lot of stuff down on my rebrickable and now so they sell it on my web page. As I can sell things cheaper on my website than I can on rebrickable as I don't have all the added fees. My website is bevinsbricks.com and here is a link for the curved road brick built. bevinsbricks.com/store/ols/products/mils-curved-road-instructions I don't have the new road played version back up yet as I am redoing it.
Nicely done
Hello there
Super awesome. The tile looks good for the center stripe on the curve.
I will surely try it! Thanks for the how to vids on the road plates it will help a lot people like me who are about to start a Lego city
Np your videos always help out!
Cool curvature even using road plates! 👍😀
Looks good just the same, and it will work just fine. 👍
I like the curves but I’m in the right angle community only because that is what I grew up with in our actual town.
This looks amazing 🤩
It really wouldn't surprise me that sometime in the not too distant future Lego will bring out an actual curved plate. It makes Economic sense on their part!
Since "economic sense" seems to be the only driving factor, there still is hope!! I wouldn´t count on it though ;-)
The new plates are really unnecessary . Lego is just playing to the weaknesses of the Lego fans .
2 years later asnd still no curve. Not sure if LEGO plans on killing this line someday but the old printed baseplates seem far superior. Videos like this are the ones that make me doubt if the new road plates are for me
Looks great, thanks for sharing
I have a feeling that the new road plate system will have curved roads soon
I still can't believe that LEGO hasn't came up with a Curve piece for their new "WONDERFUL" road plate system!
Honestly, I'm just gonna build my own roads, bricked out. To hell with the cost, because you can't do "Looks Right" for cheap in my opinion at least. The systems I will be using is the 1x3 Black Bricks, with White and Yellow Lines built into the road, and the road uses SNOT technique to build the road. With this style of road build I have seen great roads using SNOT, and using the same SNOT technique you can get really smooth inclining and declining hills, and I'm going to use this system and find a way to do a really smooth curve as well. perhaps the curve will be Studs on Top, but transfer to a SNOT for the straights and the hills. Not entirely sure just jet. One thing that I would absolutely love to figure out though, not just curves, but curves with banks in them at varying degrees! Now I know most roads don't have banks in them (actually all black top roads that curve have them for rain fall off, but yeah), but my thinking is that I would love to have a modern city area, and an "Old Towne" kind of area, and have them seperated by a nice long and winding country back roads (as well as a highway also available too) for scenic routes, and I was thinking just how awesome would it be to figure out how to have an enbankment in my road as it curves around those winding country/mountain roads? The more I think about it though, the more I realize that what I come up with for my ideas are more than likely going to be something completely custom built and then LEGOs sit on top of it, and it works for exactly what I am wanting, but then again how many folks have room for 2 cities, much less a long and winding Country/Mountain backroads scenic route seperating them? Honestly, I may not even have the room for it until we get into the new house!
My roads are all snot built as well. You can look under my Playlist and see how I do them and curves. The one thing I do want to point out to you though is if you're going to do brick built roads do not use 1x3 Bricks. Use 1x6 or larger. This is why I say that when you're using the smaller bricks it ends up leaving a very large gap between each Mils snot built Brick Road you make. The roads will look a lot more fluent in decorative if you go one by sixes or larger on the brick and you won't have as large a gap between each one of your road plates.
This looks not bad at all. Yeah the broken white outside line is a pity, but generally it looks quite natural.
One point I noticed and could be improved: you start with three 1x3 wedge plates, followed by two 1x4 wedge plates and finish again with three 1x3 wedge plates. Wouldn't it be better to start/stop with the two 1x4 wedge plates and put the six 1x3 wedge plates in the middle? (Because angle of 1x4 is smaller then 1x3, and thus you a more natural transition)
I dunno if we were reading each one's mind, but after I obtained my first new road plate (bought the Skate Park yesterday), I thought about a similar solution for the white lines, but using 1x4 instead of 1x2 white tiles. Or even not having white lines at all.
The only difference is about the outer sidewalk: my only idea was to make it more "blocky", and less curvy than yours.
To get the curved white line why not use a white 4x4 curved brick fixed at both ends? It would stand three plates proud of the road but would be a solid barrier to keep the two traffic lanes apart and could be extended to link up with the adjacent white printed lines - maybe with a sloped pice.
Why wouldn't you just do a right angle turn? It would save all the trouble. A curve isn't really necessary in a lego city since everything is blocky anyway. It fits the motif to keep things straight. Just a thought.
It can be done if you didn't make your city on a realistic scale
Yes 😁😃
To be honest: I only see the fails of Lego in this video. You now have a plate, thats not wide enought for streets (cause cars need more width than them), so you need to put more bricks around everywhere to integrate them. Why should i use/buy them, if they just add more things that i have to fix? How Lego could sell something without proper curves? And why are they much more expensive, if they have that much disadvantages?
Perfect 👍😎and the trains?
what if you turned the corner into a gutter so it makes sense that the lines go away
Hey man I have really enjoyed your videos, just started putting together my own LEGO city and your videos have been very informative. I was trying to find the rebrickable link for the curved road plates but couldn't find it. Am I just over looking it somewhere? Again your videos are great!
I actually took a lot of stuff down on my rebrickable and now so they sell it on my web page. As I can sell things cheaper on my website than I can on rebrickable as I don't have all the added fees. My website is bevinsbricks.com and here is a link for the curved road brick built.
bevinsbricks.com/store/ols/products/mils-curved-road-instructions
I don't have the new road played version back up yet as I am redoing it.
Awesome, thank you. I’ve enjoyed building the mills plates.
They help add a great deal of depth to a city
Do you have the part number for the expensive part? 1:30
Great idea but way to pricey for me though
Hi I cannot find the instructions for this curved road on Rebrickable. Will you put this on Rebrickable?
I also can't find it
Nope just doesn’t look quite right. They aren’t good for curves
Very bad lego doesn't have any smooth wedges
Yeah but a good remedy is to make a gaurd rail and hide the studs
Yes, but you need this only on the side of the road