Want to make your ground flexible and have some subtle angles in your terrain? With this technique, inspired by Ralf Langer, you can :)

It's really quite flexible and sturdy enough to be bent without anything falling out. Convex bending is pretty much unlimited, but at a certain angle the gaps between studs will be so big it just doesn't look good anymore. Concave bending is much more limited as it presses the bricks closer together, and with too much force things will start to pop. Still, there is some room for concave bending, and it's possible to accomplish more, if some plates are removed and replaced with other odd sized parts, like plate with door rail or such.

Compared to using nets for bent surfaces, this technique is stiffer and less flimsy. This generally means it's sturdier, but it also doesn't follow an underlying topology as closely as a net construct would.

This can also quite easily be fixed into a certain shape, so that it holds the desired shape without support from below.

More testing to follow... and again, this is based on the idea that Ralf Langer presented, to use flexible leaf elements to achieve shapeable terrain :)

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A reclining armchair. That actually reclines :)

Don't do furniture much, but once in a while it's nice to try something different :D

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I love herringbone parquet! We used to have it in our old place, and it looks really nice :) So, of course, I figured I should try to represent it in LEGO :D

Now, my own first question when seeing something like this would be: "Are they all attached? Is it stable?". The short answers are: "Yes" and "Kinda" :P

The longer answer is that all pieces are indeed attached to SOMETHING, but not all of them are attached to the base :O Roughly one third of the visible pieces are attached to the base and they then provide the framework to slot in the rest of the chunks of pieces into.

The whole thing can be turned upside down without anything falling out, provided a sufficiently snug fit is accomplished so that there is some pressure to counteract gravity (check out the video of it :D). However, shaking or firmly tapping it will make things start to fall out, hence the "kinda stable" category.

Visually I think it looks really nice, and it's pretty much spot on when it comes to scale (though who can say with the weird body shapes minifigure have :P).

It's rather on the parts intensive side (big surprise!). A lot of 1x2 and 2x2 tiles of course, and the layer below is pretty full of stuff as well.

The sofa I believe is a design by FiliusRucilo (Flickr).

Hope you like it! :)

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