Terrain Workshop: Undersea Accessories 3

A creation posted by That Bro Dad the other day on the MFZ Discord got me thinking.  It was an underwater Frame with Minifig Flippers.  Now, I generally don't use them so I've got a fair amount sitting around in my "cool bits" bag.  But, with the advent of the Inkwell, there is now a way of attaching them to a Travis Brick in a manner that doesn't use up a lot of space (i.e. Bars, Pneuma-Ts, etc.).  With that in mind, let's try and make some funky looking plants.

Four Flippers, four Inkwells, and a Travis Brick is nine pieces, which

is three too much for one Hit and three too little for two Hits.  It's also

short of the Height Minimum for Cover.  So let's add three 1x1 Round Bricks

under the brick and give this piece of vegetation some height.

This is 16 feet tall and 6 feet across in 6P scale and 2 Hits.  I used Reddish Brown

pieces because that's color I had in the parts I called out.  But, since my other undersea terrain creations don't use Reddish Brown as a core color, let's switch to Tan.

You don't have to use three 1x1 Round Bricks.  Two is enough to make

the Height Minimum.  You could fill out the parts count with a Round Tile

to cover the top stud of the Travis Brick if you wanted to.  In this case I've

used a Technic Ball Joint to top it off.  You also don't need to use a Travis

Brick as the core.  This version uses 1x1 Bricks w/Studs on Opposite Sides.  Mainly because I don't have any Tan Travis Bricks.  I also don't have many

Tan 1x1 Round Bricks so I needed more pieces to pad out the parts

count.  This is 13 feet tall and 6 feet across in 6P scale and 2 Hits.

This Light Bley version uses a Minifig Head in place of one of the 1x1

Rounds.  It has the same size and stats as the Tan version above.

We could go old school and use just use 1x1 Bricks w/Pinhole as the

core.  This is 13 feet tall and 10 feet across in 6P scale and 2 Hits.

So, as you can see, there are multiple ways to mount and display

the Minifig Flipper. And also multiple ways to pad out the build

so you hit the magic numbers for Cover.  I hope this gives people

ideas or techniques to use in their terrain builds.  Flickr page.