The Unofficial LEGO Builder's Guide

Replacing Full-Size Parts with Microscale Stand-Ins

In many ways, microscale building is just as challenging as any other scale. You are forced to make decisions about which parts to use in what situations. Often, you might know that a particular LEGO piece exists, but you can’t use it since it’s much too big for this scale. Let’s look at two different classes of parts (wheels and windows) and see how you can simulate them at microscale without using elements actually designed to fill those rolls.

Microscale Wheels

Take, for example, most of the LEGO wheels. Many are the appropriate size for minifig or miniland scale, but they are much too large to be used as wheels for vehicles built to microscale. That doesn’t mean they can’t be used to represent ...