Terrain Workshop: A New Beginning (Part 1/X)

I started today's blog post because I figured that people might be interested in a look at the creative process involved in creating a table-setting as it was unfolding.  Inspired by some of the pieces in my 71779 Lloyd's Dragon Power Spin review I started working on assembling terrain last week.

Here's what I started with.  Once again, I'm doing

a riff on my Pumping Tubes from the Ice 9 table-setting.  The colors, this time around, have a

more ominous feeling than Ice 9 does though.

After strip mining the new Mateo and 

Z-Blob the Robot set it changed to this.

 Feeling like that was a really good start, I went out

 and bought some cloth to act as a table covering.

Color comparison. 

 Moving back to assembling pieces,

 I put together a tube section in the

 same way I have before.  Unfortunately

 there's a slight difference in height.

After some brainstorming -- A.K.A. sorting and fiddling with parts -- I come

up with a solution.  This also saves me a bunch of Technic Bricks w/Axle

Hole to use elsewhere.  I'll still need to tweak the parts count though.

I have a few more ideas but I'll save that for the next post.