Brick built roads

No more baseplates

When I heard that LEGO® stopped building street-baseplate, I was looking for an equivalent replacement. Unfortunately I did not found anything which meets my expenses. So I thought of designing them on my own.

This was not a simple task: Where should I start? What should I use as a reference?

Defining a new design

A little searching finally brought me to the MILS and L-Gauge pages where I found the MultiRoad: Modular Road System for MILS which I used as a base for my ideas.

First I thought of requirements that my design must fulfill (in order of importance):

1. Must be possible to build with bricks/plates (at least at module borders)
2. Compatible with MILS (in regard of street width)
3. Universal design (usable for right-hand and left-hand traffic)

And a list of nice-to-have ideas (with no special order):

• Usable with original LEGO® baseplates
• Only a few different baseplates (variety is done via print)
• Simple design

An additional idea is the street gutter which I really miss on all alternate street base plates. But I am uncertain about the design of it. In the examples I used the wall brick design, but I think in future improvements it might be simple unicolor.

With all these ideas in my head I started building some mockups and created a small program to create some designs on different baseplates.

Examples

These examples only show junctions because these have a lot of features in one plate (straight part, corner and optional crosswalk).

In town roads

Out of town roads

More to follow...

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