Hinges, baby! Or: the Provisional Potions Classroom MOC... Part Two: the Official Set 76431

[gingerwitch]

A REVIEW and MOC (My Own Creation) in three parts...
This is the second in a three part series reviewing the official lego Harry Potter summer 2024 wave's 76431 Hogwarts Castle: Potions Class and introducing gingerwitch's (MOC) modification thereof.

Today we'll look at the official lego set, 76431 Hogwarts Castle: Potions Class, and establish how

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[gelsey]

Obviously gonna have to hit you up if I ever do a box room of the classroom and Snape's office. I was hoping to do his office someday :)

[erexen]

Ginger & I talked about MOCing Snape's office before, and his personal rooms, could you even imagine creatin g all of his specimen jars, and his library???

[gelsey]

It's the specimen jars and lab equipment I'm especially excited about. I work with laboratory glassware (manufacturing) so I actually have a few things that would be discarded that I can use haha. And the ingredients closet! And and and. I'm currently running a small experiment with dried flowers and resin, to see if I can make something happen that I want. Flowers are still drying in silica sand right now. I need to find a good pair of tweezers or forceps for the resin phase, then it'll just take time to see if I get it right and they'll stay preserved in the way I see in my head.

[erexen]

Ohhh Squuueeeeee! I have tried for years to find lego sized actual glass containers, no luck yet. I've had visions of ideas for specimen jars, plus I can sculpt in miniscule scale, so planned to make tiny creatures to "float" in resin. I just had a cool idea on how to make movie set style containers... not sure if it will work, and it wouldn't be actual glass... but? I Loved Snape's office in HP WU.

Instead of a dollhouse, could you imagine a miniature dungeon? Class room, ingredients closet, office & his quarters, though we don't have a visual of his quarters to work from, I don't think?

My best crafting friends are my variety of needle nosed tweezers & pliers. My biggest creative love is sculpting tiny things, thus my adoration of building legos, building tiny structures.

Are you using teeny weeny flowers from weeds? I have itty bitty purple & gold flowers out here.

Also love the idea of making lego sized actual books to fill his library.

[gelsey]

I can pull out what I have and share :) I don't have baby flasks but I have 2ml vials of various sorts, as well as some bigger. I need to see if I can find the discards that can be mini test tubes, I'm hoping they didn't get discarded (I can get more but I don't work quality anymore so gotta go out of my way

[gingerwitch]

Lego's scale is borked, because the minifigs don't have people proportions. The result is they have a "playscale" size that means things are the size for minifigs to interact with and kids to play with, but not quite the size and proportions they'd be if it were a "to scale" dollhouse or you were minted. That's a "minifig scale" instead, except people often confuse the terms

[gelsey]

Gotcha! I wasn't sure if there was a scale or not. Sounds confusing!

Wowsers those are awesome! That horse is simply gorgeous!

[gingerwitch]

Yeah, cars are the things that work out for the worst, because it's hard to get two figs side by side, unless you mangle the car size, and then everything else collapses. You have to learn to let go of excess precision.

Right? Woman has some mad skills. I keep telling her. (Plus, she's real horse people.)

[gelsey]

Makes sense. I'm struggling making my stupid sink I've been working on. I'm contemplating letting it be slightly uneven. I put it away for now. I might need to make a new template but I'm not sure that'll keep me from messing it up. Too far in my head maybe? I'm too much of a perfectionist but otoh I'm determined, lol

She's incredibly talented. Like I told her, clay doesn't seem to like me so far. And yes you can almost always tell a real horse person from stuff like that.

[erexen]

It would be so much fun to be able to create realistic items for the boxes. I plucked some small purple flowers today, have to see if they maintain color & shape well when dried out. Yeah, chemical smells are not good for sensitive noses.

I'm almost never on FB, but the miniature stuff sounds intriguing? I've discovered paper fine enough to make te tiny books, and I Used to be able to write as small as the fine print on variety of things. I'd like to make a Potions book, plus some other possible curriculum books, maybe even try to do a periodical?

[gelsey]

I pulled out the flowers in the silica sand and they have indeed kept their color but are definitely fragile. I think I need to try a few more things for the tiniest flowers to keep their shape better. If it doesn't get too wet tomorrow I'll pull out the resin, unless work gets too busy.

The two I'm in that I like are "miniatures and mini things" and "dollhouse miniatures made from everyday things"
Some people are so hella talented and some people post tutorials or ask for ideas for things. There's some good stuff there.

[erexen]

I once read something about spraying something onto the delicate flowers to strengthen them for resin placement... but can't remember?

[gelsey]

I'll do more research :)

[erexen]

Some kind of resin spray that doesn't cause resin to color or become opaque. The made from everyday things group suspended my profile???

[gelsey]

That's seriously weird. I've never had an issue unless you count it can take like, a day to have a post approved sometimes.

[erexen]

I didn't try to post, just wanted to check out some of the posts?