Terrain Workshop: Clone Plants

It's been two and a half months since I've done a Terrain Workshop, and I'm finally feeling creative, so let's have some fun with a handful of Clone Brick parts.

This build starts with parts sourced from this set.  The 8x3 Leaf w/Bar is connected to the Bushing w/Clip and that is mounted on an Inkwell.  This is repeated three more times for a total of twelve pieces.  This build is 2 Hits and roughly 25 feet tall by 8 feet wide in 6P scale.  The clone parts are both from one set from one store so availability is going to be limited and the Cost per Build will be fairly high.  So let's move along to a different build that uses parts from the Miniso Lily set with a higher quantity and also more Lego pieces.

There are thirteen of the 4x4 Leaf w/Clip pieces in the Miniso Lily set.  We start with attaching one to a Padlock, then mounting that on a 1x1 Round Plate.  This is repeated three more times for a total of twelve pieces.  This build is 2 Hits and

roughly 15 feet tall by 14 feet wide in 6P scale.  The 4x4 Clip leaf is $0.38 per Piece,

Green Padlocks are $0.02 per Piece, and Reddish Brown 1x1 Round Plates are

$0.01 per Piece for a total of $1.64 per build.  Which seems reasonable to me.

One of the fun things about this build is that the curved nature of the leaf pieces allows us to add more to the internal space defined by those leaves.  Which also allows us to "beef up" the build and add more Hits.  If that's something you're interested in.  I'm going to do two different versions of this.  The first starts with a 2x2 Round Brick -- which goes on top of the Padlocks -- then adds a 2x2 Round Plate, and tops it off with four 1x1 Cones.  This is six pieces which adds 1 Hit.  It's also three Bricks tall which makes it Cover.  The second version starts with two 1x2 Round Plates -- on top of the Padlocks -- the adds four of the Modified Minifig Ski Poles from the Miniso Lily set.  This is six pieces which adds 1 Hit, and it's three Bricks tall which makes it Cover.  It also looks a little more natural than the first version.  The first version looks sturdier though which will probably help people believe that it would stand up to mecha scale weaponry.  Having three different types of pieces allows you to vary the colors to possibly differentiate the different parts of the plant.  If you wanted to do that.

The other fun thing about the second version of this

build is that you can fully open all the leaves to

increase the amount of ground clutter.  This

reduces it to 1 Hit for the central section but each

build covers a lot more space on the table.

Let's do a size comparison with the usual suspects. I hope this gives people ideas or techniques to use in their terrain builds.  Flickr page.