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Today’s Monofigure Habitats showcase the Brick Botanist, The Waitress and The Gardener.

The Brick Botanist is respresenting Bright Green in the collection, and is very appropriate for all sorts of foliage and plants. It looks like they have their shovel and staff at the ready to take some samples from the nearby pond. This habitat was only completed thanks to an order for 1×1 SNOT bricks which had to come from Denmark.

Moaning Myrtle’s hairpiece with bunches and the rectangular tray were the inspiration for this Dark Blue Habitat. I then found that I could source doors and windows, and a decorative piece which looked like a tablecloth. The waitress is clearing the table for the next al fresco diner. She seems remarkably unworried by the snake and scorpion who are hanging around!

The Gardener is picking some flowers for a vase in her conservatory. The Dark Pink hues work well for this Habitat, and she also has a patio umbrella and chair in the garden ready to relax.

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.

Watch the video on this Block by Blockhead:

Monofigure Habitats #7

MOC: Monochrome Court