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.

Valentine's Day

My entry to another Star-Wars-based MOC competition, this time on a Valentine's/Romance theme.

I call this "Awkward First Date." Rey reads the menu as Obi-Wine Kenobi pours Kylo Ren a drink.

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".

Barbecue

As a companion piece to my esky, I later built this four-burner barbecue.

Esky

Two years ago I attended my first LUG meeting, which included an Australia-Day-themed MOC competition. I brought along this Esky (cooler). I started with two aircraft roof segments as the lid, and worked out the scale from there, building from the top down.

The esky was fully stocked - check out all the details below.

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.