MOC: Cockpit Flowers in Alternate Colors

A group of flowers built from LEGO transparent colorful pieces and white stems, lying on a light wood background.

To thank you all for 1,000 votes of support for my Winter Ice Flowers on LEGO’s Ideas Platform, I wanted to share some of the alternate color builds I tried for the large peony-type statement flower I built from cockpits.

A large LEGO flower with a white stem, transparent light blue cockpit petals, and transparent blue and orange flame center parts, lying on a light wood surface.

Here’s the original version #1, with transparent light blue cockpits and transparent dark blue and orange flames.

A flower built from LEGO transparent red and blue cockpit pieces with purple and orange flames and a white stem, on a light wood background.

Here’s an alternate recolor, version #2, with transparent red and light blue cockpits and transparent purple and orange flames. It’s far more eye-catching than the blue, and I love how the colors bring out the dimensionality of the design more.

A flower built from LEGO transparent pink and blue cockpit pieces with purple and orange flames and a white stem, on a light wood background.

Here’s version #3 with transparent pink and light blue cockpits and purple and orange flames. This has less contrast than the red and blue one, but I love how the pink and blue differ but are matched in saturation.

A flower built from LEGO transparent red and blue cockpit pieces with blue and orange flames and a white stem, on a light wood background.

As you can see in version #4, changing the color of the second layer of flames had less impact than changing the color of the large cockpits, but is still noticeably different. Here’s the transparent pink and light blue cockpit version, but with the original dark blue and orange flames.

A flower built from LEGO transparent pink and blue cockpit pieces with blue and orange flames and a white stem, on a light wood background.

Finally, here’s version #5, the transparent pink and light blue cockpit version with the original dark blue and orange flames.

Version #3 is probably my favorite of these. I just love the way the pink and blue and purple combine visually, especially in a side view like this.

So why didn’t I choose that version for my submission?

Because I wanted the flowers to be visually balanced as a group. Since I built this submission with real bricks I own, I had a limited palette of transparent piece colors. And although I love that pink and blue cockpit flower, I also love the pink umbrella flowers. I didn’t want this bouquet to be half pink.

I tested building the umbrella flowers in transparent purple instead. But then I’d want to change the gem allium flowers so it wasn’t too purple overall. See how this cascades?

The only other red are in my tooth plate buds and flower, so that might have been a better balance overall. But I felt like the arrangement was less cohesive with this much red.

In the end, I chose version #1 for my Ideas Submission.

Lego brick-built flowers made from transparent parts and white stems lie on a pine board. Transparent pieces include light blue snowflakes, dark purple gems, red and orange tooth plates, bright green flaps with fork, light blue and bright green cockpits, and pink umbrellas.

There’s more transparent light blue in this version, combined with the snowflake flowers. But I felt like that added to the feeling of ice, and I love that for this winter arrangement.

See more about my Winter Ice Flowers MOC here, or on LEGO’s Ideas Platform!