[MOC] The Fortune Teller's Camp

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[MOC] The Fortune Teller's Camp

 

Hello LEGO friends, may I present to you "The Fortune Teller's Camp" my entry into the Bricklink Designer Program Series 5 fan vote.       

   
https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/series-5/1557/The-Fortune-Teller's-Camp

 

Welcome to The Fortune Teller's Camp, where fortunes are revealed for a coin.

Madam Lupus is a renown mystical psychic who travels via carriage from castle village to castle village with her family. The family sets up camp on the outskirts of these villages, to attract people heading into market. Madam Lupus is recognizable by her large red and blue tent, from which she invites visitors into her tent, where she gazes into her crystal ball and interprets the future.

In camp Lukas her son tends to the fire, cooking a meal of fish. When no one is looking Lukas likes to hide a cache of coins beneath the tree. Romulus the dad, is a retired master renegade of the Wolfpack clan. He is very proud of his carriage and tends to his horses when in camp. Romulus is still a renegade at heart and has a secret compartment beneath his carriage where he hides his loot.

This model has 971 parts, and comes in 3 sections, the Carriage, the Tree, and the Tent. There are 3 mini-figures, Madam Lupus, Lukas, and Romulus.

 

 

 

For any of you who remember the OG castle sets of the 90's, you may feel a bit of nostalgia seeing the Wolfpack Renegade driving a blue carriage. This new carriage is my homage to the original Wolfpack set 6038 of my childhood. The final version you see in my submission, is the result of building 8 different styles of carriages, all trying to create different ways to incorporate the best play feature of set 6038, the hidden treasure chest.

 

 

 

The secret compartment blends in with the side of the carriage, and has lots of room for loot. The roof of the carriage is removable, and the side of the wall swings open to allow for play. Inside the carriage is more storage for bottles, candles, and weapons. There is also a fold-able bed and a cast iron stove.

 

 

After building the carriage, I considered submitting just it alone, as I for one appreciate sets that are reasonably priced. However from past experience, I have learned that while regular production Lego sets are designed to achieve a design with as few parts as possible, sets that win over AFOL's enough to get them to cast a vote on either the Bricklink Designer Program or Lego Ideas, tend to have one thing in common that they are big and detailed.

As the OG Wolfpack were always mischievous rogues and thieves, I felt if they had to go legitimate to make a living they would most likely do something that utilized their skills as con artists. Therefore I decided to create a story of a traveling family of Wolfpack clan members, who make their living as fortune tellers, entertaining medieval villagers. This is how the camp scene of the tent and tree came to be.

 

 

The tent was a challenge, to design and build digitally on Studio. Originally it was square and looked more like a box then a tent. While trying to come up a way to make the tent look more believable, I saw a reel on Instagram from a person who made a tower using ball joints, and I used that idea to create the roof angles you see on the finished model. Studio is a pain when trying to adjust the angles of bricks. It took numerous attempts to get the bricks in the program to go into the angles that I knew worked from seeing a picture of a physical moc built this way.

 

 

 

 

To vote head on over to https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/series-5/1557/The-Fortune-Teller's-Camp You will need to Log-in or Register to vote, however you can vote for as many projects as you want. Please consider voting "Love it!" and commenting on my moc, "The Fortune Teller's Camp." My design can also be found amongst the 307 mocs by searching the word "fortune."

 

Thank you for checking out my moc "The Fortune Teller's Camp"  It is one of 18 Wolfpack themed sets, and over 84 castle themed sets in BDP5, which ends on June 14th. Please consider voting for this moc alongside the many other great designs.