Behind the Scenes: Port Royal
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 PitBehind the Scenes: Forbidden FriendshipBuild Log: WaterwheelBehind the Scenes: Space Travel PosterBehind the Scenes: Red SeaBehind the Scenes: Fire!Behind the Scenes – LadyhawkeBehind the Scenes: Space TankBehind the Scenes: A Forest DriveBehind the Scenes: Tea ShopBehind the Scenes: Rice TerracesBehind the Scenes: Qarkyr Box Gardens
