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Monofigure Habitats #5

Monday, 3rd May 2021 By Caz

The next trio in my Monofigure Habitats project are The Crabber, The Samurai King and the Xenobiologist.

The Crabber is well kitted out for all weathers in a cape and Sou’wester hat. Their huge net will certainly be able to reach down to the crabs along the shoreline, even from the sea wall where they are standing. A bay window of a house overlooks the scene.

Meanwhile, the Samurai King’s habitat is rather hard to see very well – but it has ornate oriental fencing surrounding the well-armed warrior king.

The Xenobiologist is busy in her cultivation lab, studying various life forms which she has brought back to her world from a visit to Earth. She has to be very careful not to let any of these invasive species out which could cause havoc to her planet’s native biodiversity!

House of DOTS v2 – Decorating Two Teal & Black Plant Pots

Monday, 17th August 2020 By Caz

Back in Jaunary, together with several other members of London AFOLs, I was involved with decorating the LEGO House of DOTS, designed by artist Camille Walala.

We applied thousands of tiny tiles to pre-cut baseplates which where then stuck onto the furniture for the House. It looked great, and the finished product was used to launch the new DOTS range at a press release in London on 28th January.

Fast forward eight months. Parts of the original house were damaged when it went into storage – so the original AFOL crew has been called upon again to resurrect the decor for a new House which will on tour around the globe.

Unlike last time, we are all working from home, so last week Little Caz took delivery of a consignment of DOTS which I will be using for various projects.

MOC: Apis Heights

Friday, 16th March 2018 By Caz

Apis Heights - Front — Apis Heights – Front

Apis Heights - Rear — Apis Heights – Rear

This next Micropolis module is an imposing office block for downtown Micropolis. It is called Apis Heights, and was built from PAB components and some bricks I had in my store.

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MOC: Venom Security Inc.

Friday, 26th January 2018 By Caz

Several factors came together recently to produce this crazy, ostentatious, menacing edifice which I dubbed Venom Security Inc. The hapless citizens of Micropolis are under the mistaken impression that this is just a firm of security experts, but in fact the building houses the thinly-disguised HQ of the Micropolis Secret Service!

The main components of the build were again PAB finds – black 1×2 grille bricks, orange 1×2 bricks (with a few slopes thrown in from a play brick box) and those three big cockpit pieces which I found in the “nearly gone” PAB secret stash at Stratford. They made perfect skylights for the otherwise fairly windowless building.

And then of course there are all the other mad trans-neon-orange greebles everywhere – most of which came from that mixed eBay lot a few days ago. I was able to pick through the boxes and find loads of useful stuff to embellish it with.

Even better, if you turn the lights off and shine a UV torch at the place, it glows menacingly in the dark! Spooky.

I really like this 1/2 block module, and it’s probably one of my favourite Micropolis builds so far.

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MOC: Monochrome Court

Wednesday, 24th January 2018 By Caz

I wanted to use some of the smaller clear transparent windscreen pieces I got in the big eBay haul the other day, along with some clear 1×2 bricks from my stock. My last building was very colourful but I decided to stick to a black, white and dark grey palette for this one, and so it became Monochrome Court. The wheel arches were a recent find at Stratford PAB wall, where I picked up a handful and thought they would make good architectural features. I used them here to frame the top storey windows and one at each end of the ground floor.

The white bow pieces finished off the roof and echoed the arches. And now I look at the building after putting it together, it reminds me very much of some parts of the Barbican Centre in London (see this image taken a while back).

I added some landscaping and ponds out front (also a feature of the Barbican Centre) and a little bridge to get across to the main doorway, and the module was done.

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MOC: Obsidian House

Saturday, 13th January 2018 By Caz

Today I thought I would make use of some more of the bits I acquired in Monday’s haul. I combined some of the 1×2 black grille bricks, the round gold tiles and a few of those 2×2 trans yellow bricks to build Obsidian House – Micropolis HQ of the Trumped Up Corporation. It’s all about the bling, as you can see. The more ostentatious details, the better.

MOC: Obsidian House - Front — MOC: Obsidian House – Front

The gold statues out front are clearly effigies of Trumped Up Corp.’s narcissistic CEO, which stand there to remind all who pass just who is in charge.

MOC: Obsidian House - Side — MOC: Obsidian House – Side

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