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Monofigure Habitats #3

Monday, 19th April 2021 By Caz

I have three more Monofigure Habitats to show you today, Ms Green The Mermaid, Mr Medium Nougat The Baker and Mr Yellow, the Pharaoh.

The Mermaid is sitting at the bottom of the ocean surrounded by seaweed, an old ship’s wheel and some bubbles heading for the surface. She’s about to bite into a tasty apple, but I’m not sure where she found that under the water!

The Baker has been busy baking pretzels for his customers. The bakery also features some baguettes, some jars of flour on the shelf and a rather alarming looking spider hoping to gather a few crumbs!

This Pharaoh was obviously very important, because he has been interred in a very ornate pyramid. I got the hidea for this habitat from the excellent headdress piece, and everything else followed from there. The walls are decorated with frescoes but the poor pharaoh appears to be roaming around inside – perhaps he’s on the lookout for grave-robbing archeologists!

My first six Monofigure Habitats were all designed physically first, but as I got further into the project, I decided to use Stuid.io to design the Habitats before ordering the pieces I needed. The programme has the option to just show pieces in one specific colour, which was invaluable for being able to see the more unusual elements which were available to make each model. I’ve been juggling BrickLink wish lists for months now! Some of you asked if you will see more than three habitats stacked together – the answer is yes. But not yet, as I don’t whant to spoil the reveal of the finished project, which ist still in progress!

Filed Under: Minifigure Habitat, Monofigure Habitat Tagged With: bakery, green, medium nougat, pyramid, the baker, the mermaid, the pharoah, tomb, underwater, yellow

Bricktober: Bakery (40143)

Friday, 24th November 2017 By Caz

The 2015 Bricktober Mini Modular buildings aren’t too difficult to acquire on eBay in the UK at a decent price, you just have to keep your eye open for ones which aren’t up for silly money.

As I’m not at all worried about the condition of the boxes, it’s useful to watch for ones with crumpled cardboard as they tend to be a bit cheaper. I’m not collecting my LEGO to sit on a shelf un-built, but that’s my choice!

40143 Bricktober Bakery Box
40143 Bricktober Bakery Box

The 40143 Bricktober Bakery arrived from eBay recently so I set about opening it up and putting it together. I found the pieces quite hard to locate and make out which one I needed from the instructions, for some reason. It could have been that I was doing the build on a very small tray on my knee on the sofa, and didn’t have much room to spread the pieces out to rummage about for each one I needed. Anyway, I got there in the end.

40143 Bricktober Bakery
40143 Bricktober Bakery

You will notice from comparing photos on the box and the built version, that I’ve left off a few bits from bottoms of the motorised vehicles. I think this makes them more in-scale with other vehicles in Micropolis, which are usually only 2-3 plates high. The bakery will eventually end up on a proper Micropolis base, making up a single block (4 quarter blocks back to back), to be called Bricktober Court. Keep your eye open for progress on this front!

Filed Under: Bricktober, Microscale Tagged With: 40143, bakery, bricktober court, ebay

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