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]

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).

See that is sort of what I was thinking. You can buy "box rooms" and I was thinking of doing the classroom and office at a minimum, set them side by side. I try not to plan too far forward but I've always thought it would be cool.

I am, there's lots of teeny tiny weeds here, and I want to see if I can preserve them to use as actual flowers. Even some tiny foliage. I'm not sure it'll work yet but I play in the garden a lot and thought it could be worth a try. I should check on the drying process and see how it's going. I have to wait for a nicer day to do the resin as I don't want to do it inside where the buns can smell it.

I've seen some really cool tiny books on Facebook some with actual written stuff in them. There's a few awesome miniatures groups I follow and am trying to learn from. What scale is Lego? 1:24?

[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. 😆

Because erexen won't 😋, I'll do some bragging for her.
This was a sculptured figurine she was working on:
https://erexen.livejournal.com/photo/album/666/?mode=view&id=37173
and this was a horse she worked on:
https://erexen.livejournal.com/photo/album/666/?mode=view&id=33253
https://erexen.livejournal.com/photo/album/666/?mode=view&id=32522
https://erexen.livejournal.com/photo/album/666/?mode=view&id=32271

I thought you'd like them, too. 😊

[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?

[erexen]

This is what it says:

Dollhouse miniatures made from everyday things

Public group ·272.5K membersInviteShareJoined Your profile been suspended in this group. The admin has temporarily turned off your ability to post or comment in the group until May 23, 2024, 4:18 AM. Learn more

That's longer than a day? It's longer than a week?

[gingerwitch]

Maybe they're on vacation? May is a huge vacation month in our neck of the woods, I'm assuming it's much the same in other parts of Europe (if they're European based, that is). We have a lot of mid-week bank holidays where it are sense to take bridging days.

[erexen]

No idea on vacationing, haven't taken a vacation in almost 30 years. 🤣 Last one was to take our preschool kids to Disneyland in CA. It could be though, I'm just terribly out of that loop. *raises hand in the meeting... I may be a workaholic*

[gingerwitch]

A lot of communities just don't have the mod staff anymore to do things quickly. Then you just have to be patient. I'm sure they'll get around to it eventually, and if they don't by the time the autoresponder says, just ping them again. These are the rough bot days, when you get overwhelmed by the bots on a comm or sub, but haven't yet got the AI staff to help yet. They're trying to fend off the 'dead internet'. It's not as easy as you might think.