Lego skyscrapers on your layout?

Great idea!  Looks great!  Only think I might change is painting the green awnings.  Do Legos accept paint at all?

Great fleet of "New Look" GMC busses too!  

Duncan,

The structures look great. I suspect the Lego buildings are a little small for true scale structures, but considering how nice they look, who cares! Using Legos in an o scale environment is a fantastic idea.

VistaDomeScott posted:

Great idea!  Looks great!  Only think I might change is painting the green awnings.  Do Legos accept paint at all?

Great fleet of "New Look" GMC busses too!  

Thanks! That lime green would not be my first choice either but those pieces were part of a set on which I got a great deal on multiples of that contained many other parts I actually needed. Since all those lime bricks are available in most Lego colors, at some point I'll probably swap them out for another color. I've seen quite a bit of painted Lego, but I would never do that.

abbrail posted:

Duncan,

The structures look great. I suspect the Lego buildings are a little small for true scale structures, but considering how nice they look, who cares! Using Legos in an o scale environment is a fantastic idea.

Thomas,

Thanks. Actually, the opposite might be true. I realized after reading your response that I placed the MTH building next to the wrong Lego structure. That Lego skyscraper is 17 stories and over 38" tall. With all the many thousands of bricks required I economized on all but the lobby and top floor by making the middle floors slightly shorter to save brick.

Below I've photographed a standard Lego door frame of the type I use on most of my buildings next to a door on the MTH 5-story. The Lego door is taller and wider. When I move the MTH building next to a smaller Lego building where the floors are built to basically the same height standard (it's a 2 floor building with a double height 1st floor), the 3 story-ish Lego building is nearly at the 4-story mark on the MTH building. 

At a distance it's hard to tell and they look great, so as you said in the end it doesn't matter. I might someday use the slightly smaller floors to create forced perspective!

-Duncan

VistaDomeScott posted:

Great idea!  Looks great!  Only think I might change is painting the green awnings.  Do Legos accept paint at all?

Great fleet of "New Look" GMC busses too!  

Those Corgi buses are as rare as hen's teeth now. I have mostly the NY buses plus the one put out by Royal Coach.

yardlet6 posted:

VistaDomeScott posted:

Great idea!  Looks great!  Only think I might change is painting the green awnings.  Do Legos accept paint at all?

Great fleet of "New Look" GMC busses too!  

Those Corgi buses are as rare as hen's teeth now. I have mostly the NY buses plus the one put out by Royal Coach.

I was fortunate in that I started acquiring those Corgi fishbowls back when you could still find them on toy store shelves. I have about 30 New York area buses altogether, 9 of them are the blue/silver MTA scheme from my own childhood in NYC.

In the picture above is the building in the central (gold trim with black center) and the one to the far left Lego buildings too?  I understand that the one with green awing is and the one to it's right is mth. 

I thought about using my LEGOs for buildings, but for the price I decided to stick with O buildings, mostly MTH.  But on the other hand all non-rail vehicles will be LEGO.

I really like your modern skyscrapers. Did you just buy the bricks by the pound or are they from sets?

rboatertoo posted:

In the picture above is the building in the central (gold trim with black center) and the one to the far left Lego buildings too?  I understand that the one with green awing is and the one to it's right is mth. 

All of the building in the photo except that single MTH 5-story building are Lego. That's what makes this so usable for a modern O-Scale city. If you do it right you can get a clean, non-toyish look.