Chapter 6. Microscale Building: More Than Meets the Eye

In the last chapter, I showed you several macroscale building techniques; there you learned to make models much larger than the objects they represent. This chapter focuses on the opposite technique, something called microscale building. As the word micro indicates, this scale is very small. Keep reading to find out just how small. If you are someone with a limited supply of LEGO bricks, or perhaps you do your building in a confined space, then the microscale route might work well for you. You can still create interesting models no matter how limited your palette of pieces might be.

Figure 6-1 shows an example of the type of subject matter you might explore when building at this scale.

Though ...

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