07 March 2016

Lion Keeper

Not everyone has the time (or the bricks) for full-table-size dioramas, but sometimes smaller builds are a good challenge as well!

"Habitat vignettes" are a very popular method (just do a Google image search) of making little displays to showcase individual minifigures. Every year when LEGO releases a set of Collectible Minifigures, a lot of people around the world find cool and creative ways to display them in a small "room" themed to the figure.

With a set size (12x12 studs in area, 8 bricks in total height), it is easy to make one or more and assemble them together into a "wall" of little rooms. This is what we did in my club last year, with multiple vignettes on a single table as part of a group display.

My first was a lion cage to show off the Zookeeper minifigure (Series 5). It was fun trying to figure out ways of securing the vegetation at different angles to give a more "overgrown" look to the background.



After I started making more vignettes (once you start, they're addictive!) I needed some of the fences elsewhere. Here's another shot with the whole thing in focus. I also swapped out one of the wall panels in the back for a transparent window - when lots of these little vignettes are stacked together, it's important to let as much light in as possible.


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