Johnny_Thunderstruck

making of the palm leafes out of foam rubber, laser cut and spray painted: 20231022_163501 by pendentif, auf Flickr 20231022_165752 by pendentif, auf Flickr

Cool! How did you solve the problem with missing reddish brown curved slopes for the top of the treasure chest? Because I also would have liked to add one.

thanks, but still WIP

20231102_203902 by pendentif, auf Flickr 20231102_203938 by pendentif, auf Flickr 20231102_231349 by pendentif, auf Flickr 20231102_231506 by pendentif, auf Flickr 20231102_231528 by pendentif, auf Flickr

What to you think about these custom palm leafes? I mean it's not official Lego, but I may like it. 20231027_123339-1 by pendentif, auf Flickr 20231027_124022-1 by pendentif, auf Flickr

Oh yes I think this is something I can work with: 20231019_120724 by pendentif, auf Flickr 20231020_170658 by pendentif, auf Flickr

Do you mean the lathe? Yes of course you can use it.

I feel I need a little step back from my medieval 10305 castle diorama to gain some fresh general creative inspiration, therefore I want to start a little side project along the way. Consider this an absolute work in progress, but this time I want so show the development from the very beginning. If you don't like this concept, just skip this thread until a few months from now. The initial idea was to combine some existing mini builds like a lathe, milling machine, pallet racks and heavy machinery like trucks and excavators to create a small and dirty, quite shady backyard machinery workshop. While arranging the existing parts on firstly one, then two, three, and very quickly four, five, six 32x32 baseplates, my thoughts unrestrained developed in the direction of a bigger and more officially acting facility, including rails and train carts, and a number of forklifts and telehandlers to manage a quite large depot of machinery spare parts. Coming down to earth after all it shall now be a compromise, illustrating only part of a medium sized machinery workshop, showing some work on vehicle mechanics/hydraulics and some other comission stuff. I prefer a small and crammed diorama to a large but comparatively empty setting. I'm absolutely open for your ideas input now. The current state of this project is: 20231015_134155 by pendentif, auf Flickr 20231015_154837 by pendentif, auf Flickr 20231015_154827 by pendentif, auf Flickr Nexts steps: I just received the Bluebrixx modern locomotive shed to act as a parts pack for creating an enclosure of the shop floor. I usually hardly dislike the blank studs from off-brand manufacturers in my MOCs, but I could not resist getting this much very useful parts here for just 150€:

I tried to bypass some design flaws of my parrot to improve the structural stability, but was not happy with the resulting optical changes. Therefore I decided against making instructions now. Also there are plenty of quite similar parrots on rebrickable already. But regarding the small diorama, there is some progress to show: 20231015_140825 by pendentif, auf Flickr 20231015_145642 by pendentif, auf Flickr

thanks. I saw this somewhere on pinterest 20230821_081907 by pendentif, auf Flickr

some progress: 20230328_230633 by pendentif, auf Flickr 20230328_230643 by pendentif, auf Flickr 20230408_180025 by pendentif, auf Flickr 20230408_180034 by pendentif, auf Flickr 20230409_172030 by pendentif, auf Flickr 20230409_172006 by pendentif, auf Flickr and some closeups: 20230406_201234 by pendentif, auf Flickr 20230406_201402 by pendentif, auf Flickr 20230409_172034 by pendentif, auf Flickr 20230409_172051 by pendentif, auf Flickr 20230409_172141 by pendentif, auf Flickr 20230409_172120 by pendentif, auf Flickr 20230409_172128 by pendentif, auf Flickr 20230409_172134 by pendentif, auf Flickr 20230821_082048 by pendentif, auf Flickr 20230821_082159 by pendentif, auf Flickr 20230821_082252 by pendentif, auf Flickr 20230821_082313 by pendentif, auf Flickr 20230821_082407 by pendentif, auf Flickr 20230821_082325 by pendentif, auf Flickr ...still not finished of course

Ok I will create instructions or at least a stud.io file for you. But first I want to improve a few details construction-wise. Can we see this somewhere? Sounds very interesting!

thanks for the input, I like those :)

No I don't have instructions, sorry.

Besides DUPLO, I also like Scala walls to raise the terrain. 20230314_164322 by pendentif, auf Flickr 20230317_133516 by pendentif, auf Flickr 20230321_194742 by pendentif, auf Flickr 20230321_194753 by pendentif, auf Flickr 20230322_210024 by pendentif, auf Flickr