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]

[gingerwitch]

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[erexen]

[gingerwitch]

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[erexen]

So much glorious information. The images and comparisons make this post terrific and educational, then your extrapolations fill in the blissful rest.

[gingerwitch]

Thanks, e! 😘 Although I think if you tackle it systematically, the answers appear almost on their own. What do we need, what are we getting?