Greeblecity the ever growing city

I don’t see an Architecture specific subject so I thought Diorama would be the closest thing. Hope that’s ok.

I’ve been designing buildings to go with the currently published 1:2500 Greeblecity. It’s been years in the making and I add to it and change it every so often.

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Very cool, are you designing the buildings too? Are they mostly 3D printed.

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Oh my, that’s incredible, tell us more about how you are doing this.

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Wow! Need more details please, this is amazing.

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LOL, ok well I guess there really is some interest in this type of modeling. :slight_smile:

It all started when I stumbled across a product called Geocraper, yeah I know I laughed at the name too.
Turns out it’s popular in Japan and hard to get here, so I kept looking then I stumbled upon Greeblecity which is basically the same thing except it’s free on various repositories.

With Greeblecity everything is 3D printed. I started printing the building that were offered then decided to design my own.

Searching the web for interesting looking buildings is the first phase. If I found enough info about the building then I started designing it using Tinkercad. I can fumble my way around Fusion but I find Tinkercad quick and easy.

I’ve lost count how many buildings I’ve remixed and designed since I started, it just keeps growing.

I originally wanted to insert a magnet in each building then stick them to a sheet of metal anchored to the wall. Thought it would be cool to have a wall of buildings, but that never happened. It’s a good thing because we’ve moved several times and my current house doesn’t have a free wall to mount this city on.

So instead I built a table and have the city setup on it in the garage. I covered the plywood with blue construction paper to simulate water then started placing the building on that. Nothing is permanent so it call all be rearranged at any time.

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Very cool! Not planning to add some paint?

I thought about it but decided to stick with white like an architecture model. If you have a multi color printer you can print a colored version found here.

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So what scale is all this in?

It’s in 1:2500 scale.

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Holy Smokes! That’s really cool!

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As a retired Urban Planner, this is very cool!! Nicely done.

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