[MOC] Botanical Field Kit – Vintage Naturalist Tools

[M-BMagic]

Hi everyone!
Here is my latest MOC: a botanical field kit inspired by 18th‑century naturalists.

I wanted to capture the warm, vintage atmosphere of a portable study set, complete with tiny tools and botanical tables. It was a fun challenge to design everything at scale, trying to make it both believable and coherent as a field kit.
 

[mokka]

Salut Marco,

That case and its contents are beautiful and so detailed!
Everything seems to be made with Swiss precision 

In particular I like the compasses and the glass items.

Did you use stickers or printed tiles for the botanical tables?

Which part(s) did you use for the magnifier's lens?

Greetings, Justus

[M-BMagic]

Hi Justus,

thank you! I’m really glad you noticed those details — the glass items and the compasses were especially fun and challenging to design.

Since this is a digital model, the botanical tables are “imagined” as printed tiles. I wanted them to look like old field notes, so I kept everything clean and print‑based rather than using stickers.

For the magnifier I used 2x part 18675 for the lens. Some of the other elements appear in colours that don’t exist in the real palette, but I chose them to keep the overall look consistent with the vintage style I had in mind.

Here is a better view of the magnifying glass:

 

Thanks again for your thoughtful questions!

 

Marco