Author: curiofloris
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Stud.io build: Simple Goth Vase (with black lotus)
While playing around with Stud.io (a free program for virtual LEGO designing and building), I came up with this simple bud vase. It uses black ornate fence pieces (part # 19121) and black bricks in a layer over a bright light orange brick center vase (it’s a riff on my simple vase for absolute beginners…
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MOC: Cockpit Flowers in Alternate Colors
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. Here’s the original version #1, with transparent light blue cockpits and transparent dark blue and…
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MOC: Winter Ice Flowers in detail
The idea for my Winter Ice Flowers MOC began with using transparent parts for flowers. I’d been building all the botanical sets I could get my hands on, and I wanted more! But they’re trickier than they look… These transparent light blue and orange snowflake sprays were one of my earliest ideas, because I could…
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Simple Striped Vase for LEGO’s Wildflower Bouquet
I love the simple colorblock vase I built for my LEGO Roses set, and I wanted to build something similar for my Wildflower Bouquet set. I really love the striped horizon backgrounds from the Tales of the Space Age set, so I used a combination of bricks and plates for a similar effect here. I…
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LEGO set: Lotus Flowers (40647)
LEGO’s pink and white Lotus Flowers set is my second favorite of the small individual flower sets. (My favorite is LEGO’s red Roses.) I was surprised at how organic and curvy these flowers look without using many specialized parts. And I absolutely love the textured yellow centers — just like a lotus flower! That pointed,…
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LEGO Orchid green color variation
My LEGO Orchid is one of my favorite botanical sets, so when I spotted the pieces in a bulk buy from an online thrift store, I decided to build a different color variation: white and green! (Lime or yellowish green petals with white center parts are more common, but I’m working with the part colors…
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LEGO set: Bird of Paradise (10289)
The bird of paradise isn’t one of my favorite plants, so I was a little surprised at how much I love the botanical LEGO set version! (Not to mention nice part usage like the dark purple fencing foils in the flowers.)The potted brick-built plant has an architectural elegance I find beautiful, and the scale is…
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how I built new colors of LEGO’s poppy
Building new colors of flowers from LEGO’s Botanicals sets was a great stepping stone to building my own MOCs, and it’s still a small project I really enjoy! Since it took me a while to figure out how to go from building a LEGO set to building something new, here’s how I recolored the orange Poppy…
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Goth flowers for spooky season!
Happy Halloween! I built some recolored LEGO flowers for a little goth arrangement: red and black poppies (from the Flower Bouquet set); a gray rose (from the Flower Bouquet set); a black rose (from the Roses set); and a pearl gold lavender and cornflower (from the Wildflowers set). I also borrowed the dark green ferns…
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MOC: Purple or Pink Umbrella Flowers?
To celebrate more than 500 votes of support for my Winter Ice Flowers project on LEGO’s Ideas platform, here’s a recolored version of the pink umbrella flowers in the original build — this time in transparent purple and green! Which one do you prefer? For this version, I also rebuilt the white stem with the…