The Mystical Mountain Dojo

[Clancy07]

Hello everyone! I am excited to share this Lego build that I recently completed and would like any form of feedback on it to improve my building and gather inspiration. This build was partly inspired my love for Lego ninjago and the outdoors. The MOC is built around some interesting angle and stud not on top (SNOT) pieces to help build the clean display-ability.  
I hope you enjoy!

This model is build in six separate parts that can be combined as shone or separated as a nice cohesive display piece or several separate builds to display or play with. 

 

The monastery/dojo is the main section. It is built around the use of an angled Lego piece that made for a nice looking build but also made it much more challenging to complete.

The interior of the main building is mostly furniture and carpets to fill the empty space and fill it out. My personal favorite part of the interior is very easy to overlook, but the floor itself was very challenging to build without having large and awkward gaps because of the angle pieces used.

 

This folding wall I felt was a nice little playable feature that gives a nice amount of space to hide something like this fire sword displayed here. 

The waterfall is probably one of my favorite lego builds that I have made. The water fall itself was made using stud not on top (SNOT) bricks. The statue on top is a little addition that I feel really pulls the scene together and adds a bit of lore and mystery to the build.

As you can see here the waterfall is hiding a little two story cave. On top is a small place where an explorer made camp while spelunking through the cave system. Below is a spiderweb sporting a rare cave scorpion. 

Behind the spiderweb is the skeleton of an unfortunate long lost explorer. I feel the skeleton adds a nice bit of character to the cave and really pulls this little scene together.

This image gives a slightly better view of the explorer camp.

This grassy knoll is another great display piece. This part of the MOC again uses the same angled piece that the monastery did to help with the hilly effect around the water. The tree on top with a tea pot and fireplace underneath add a nice bit of playability and really help fill out the hill.

This image shows the back of the build with a little water bucket that can be used to carry some water from the pond to the dojo.

This is personally one of my favorite parts about these builds that really give them a nice but of uniqueness. The rock spring that goes on the front of the monastery and the rocky back the grass hill can both be detached with the use of technic pins and as shown in the image below make it so you can create a small rock side build and connect the grassy knoll to the dojo for more playability and display options.

 

This build is also on the Lego Ideas website here: Mountain Dojo if you like this MOC I hope you might consider supporting on that sight, it may give you the chance to buy this very set off the shelves and put it together yourself and build your own story around it!

If you would like more explanation about part of the build, mini-figs, playability, eta. please let me know and I will edit this page accordingly.

Edited yesterday at 01:12 PM by Clancy07
I wanted to give a more in depth explanation of the build

[MKJoshA]

This is a nicely polished MOC. I feels like old Lego sets used to in that you have so many story telling options. But your MOC is also more detailed and the end result is very nice.