Eomer

Here's a minifigure habitat I made towards the end of my series of small builds. If you look at the base layer of yellow you can see I was running out of bricks and was substituting with plates.

Éomer of Rohan (a Lord of the Rings minifigure) stands guard at a gate in his palisade. Behind him you can see some experimenting with small-scale landscaping, with green slopes, curves and plates layered to atttempt some sense of an uneven hillside.

The large arches on either side let a lot of light into the scene, even when stacked in layers with other vignettes.

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.

Walter White

When I first started working on my Comic-Con themed display, I really wanted to include a Breaking Bad reference. Well, here he is - my version of Walter White!

Starting with the Series 3 Fisherman collectible minifigure, I added a head with safety glasses. The flask is borrowed from the Series 11 Scientist, and a trans-light-blue piece in his other hand completes his "accessories".

The Walking Dead

Here's my attempt at making some minifigure versions of "The Walking Dead" characters.

Daryl is a Monster Fighter, and Rick is a Forest Police figure, both with different faces and hair. Carl is a hobbit with the Forest Police officer's hat.

Predator

Predator is one of my favourite 80s action films, and I just had to attempt to make one in LEGO form. I did a few online image searches for inspiration, but most results involved custom decals, or custom 3D-printed heads. I much prefer staying with official parts, which are easier to source and can easily be mixed and matched for other things later.

One picture did give me an idea though, and I went out to the shops and bought my first Chima sets.

This is what you get when you put a scorpion head on a crocodile body:

I'm really happy with the effect, and my "predator" has made his way into all my displays ever since.

Mythbusters

Here are two minifigs I feature in my "Comic Con" themed display.

The bodies are both fairly common city workers found in many LEGO City sets. I had to find two bearded faces, with one having a prominent goatee. I used a light brown hairpiece to match the beard colour on the "Adam" figure, and of course found a beret (not a common part) for "Jamie".

Zed

Now here's a really obscure sci-fi character - "Zed" from John Boorman's 1974 film Zardoz.

The torso is the Barbarian I previously used for Taylor. The legs are from the Series 12 Lifeguard. The hair is from The Hobbit's Bard the Bowman, and the face is Johnny Thunder from an older Adventurers set.

And now for a reference pic... apologies for any nightmares caused as a result of seeing Sean Connery's costume.

Khaleesi

This next SF minifigure was an easy case of mixing and matching.

All I needed was the Series 10 figure "Warrior Woman", and swapped her long brown hair for a short braided blonde hairpiece. Then I just added some baby dragons, and the result is a pretty recognisable Daenerys Targaryen from Game of Thrones.

And now here's the HBO version...

Taylor

Another minifigure customised to make a sci-fi reference. This time it's astronaut Taylor (Charlton Heston) from Planet of the Apes.

The body is Series 11's "Barbarian" with the angry face from Series 6's "Highland Battler".

"You maniacs! You blew it up!"

MacReady

Here's the next mix-n-match recreation of a movie character in minifigure form. This time it's J. R. MacReady from 1982's The Thing.

In this case the legs and torso are one of the pilots from the Arctic range of City sets, and I just had to find a bearded face and longish brown hair to complete the minifigure. The props took a little more work. A torch, a hose and a small "neck bracket" were the main ingredients in my mini flamethrower.

Below is a reference picture I found online, showing MacReady with his flamethrower backpack, and sticks of explosive strapped to his jacket. These were represented by the red stick of dynamite, found in several Lego Mining sets.

Snake Plissken

Here's the next in my series of mix-n-match efforts to create movie characters in minifigure form. This time it's Snake Plissken, as played by Kurt Russell in 1981's Escape from New York.

"Call me Snake."

Most of the parts (arms, hair, torso) were easy to source, being plain colours. I didn't have any Pirate sets at the time, so had to get some in order to get the bearded face with an eyepatch. I borrowed the legs from one of my Star Wars Kashyyyk Troopers, whose uniforms are very similar to modern army camouflage.

Hellboy

Whether I'm building a city or a fantasy layout, I love adding detail with interesting characters. There's an almost endless number of combinations you can make by mixing and matching body parts. I particularly enjoy attempting to recreate iconic pop culture characters.

Here's one of my mix-and-match results: Big Red himself, Hellboy. If you're not familiar with the graphic novels, you may have seen the movie.

The minifigure is made from 100% official parts - no custom decals or molds involved. In total, five different minifigures were raided to create the final figure.