Creating realistic water with Lego | Easy Water Depth & Movement
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- čas přidán 25. 06. 2024
- The trans-blue pieces arrived to finish off the pond for the upgraded Botanical Garden!
Using just different colours of blue plate and the trans-blue tiles, you can easily create a realistic water effect with Lego.
Let me know what you think!
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Really love the herringbone pattern for the water. Stunning end result. 🤩
Thank you 🙏🏻😎
The only thing I would have done different would be to place one or two of the Koi tiles under the trans blue surface tiles - that would help with the depth illusion.
As for the pond’s walls, you can use olive green and those quarter circle tiles to make it look like the wall is old and falling apart. Maybe change some of the rock surfaces to olive green to depict moss/algae growing on them.
That’s what I wanted to do, it’s a little tricky as the koi have no studs on them, so it was difficult to cover them in a trans blue tile as if I did the herring-bone join over the fish, then the koi is hidden. I will have to play around a a bit!
Love your pond wall idea, I’ll have a play around as I’m not over impressed with the finished look.
Thanks for watching! 🙏🏻
Great tip about not pushing everything down before you're ready. I've tore up so many brick seperators and then my nails trying to get plate up in this situation. It looks amazing!
I learned the hard way on this one.. instantly got sick of pulling plates up.. 😂 thanks for your support! 🙏🏻
If you tile off the top of the wall you could mix in some olive or sand green tiles under foliage to represent moss in shadowy areas.
Water looks amazing.
The bullion plates look good as wall toppers; I know you can get them in DBG but not sure about LBG
That’s a great idea, never even thought about moss. I will have a play around! Thanks for watching! 🙏🏻😎
That looks amazing! LEGO builders seem to achieve all sorts of different levels of realism with different kinds of water, which suggests to me that there’s quite an art to it! ☺
Thank you! There is definitely an art to it I reckon, I never really thought about it until I started this project, but these effects can be created in many ways. Just give it a go! 😁
Your pond looks wonderful, the variation in blue really gives it depth.
Thank you so much! You should try it too! 😎
I like the water a lot. The different colors looked a bit busy at first but once you got the tile down they blend really well. And adding in a few of the clear cheese slopes gives it just the right amount of movement.
I know you don't want to add any other animals to the pond but maybe consider some wild ducks or geese? I know here at zoos (and most everywhere with water) there are wild ducks that use ponds and fountains. You wouldn't have to build an enclosure or anything for them. Just have one or two hanging out in the water. Wait, does Lego make a minifig duck? Not the toy type but an actual duck? Hmmm...
Great idea! Sadly Lego is lacking in swans and actual ducks ☹️ just tiny brown and yellow toy ducks are available. I will have to see what I can figure out with what I have already to ‘liven’ the place up a bit! Thanks for watching! 😎🙏🏻
Ducks and frogs would look good on the pond. I think I've caught up and seen everything. Looking forward to seeing what you add to the zoo.
Great idea! Thank you for your kind comment! 🙏🏻
Consider using the ingot blocks to top off the pond wall. Make it more distinct from the "finished" walls of the Botanical pond
Oo good idea, I’ll have a look at this - I don’t have many in my inventory, but I will see what I can do!
Great modification 😃👍. It gives the whole scène a good finishing touch. Made me curious for more so I subscribed
Thanks for subscribing and welcome, I will try not to disappoint! 😎🙏🏻
Love the way you did the water. Cant wait for the zoo to grow.
Thank you! Me neither! 😎
Very Good
Looks excellent Maxine !
looks awesome, great technique, !
Great work
Precioso!!!! ❤ un gran trabajo 😊
Wow what a transformation on the pond! It looks so much better!
I love the little fish!
Thank you! 🙏🏻
Gorgeous water work. Just found your channel and subscribed - I love your style!
Looks great! You might consider adding a frog or two in/ by the pond 🙂
Definitely - the pond needs livening up now!
Looks great 😃
Looks great.
Looks great
Looks great!
Gorgeous work! I might move the ducklings and lilly pads down to the pond portion, since it looks ominous with them so close to the falls.
Great idea - the tiny pond is too busy now. Moving the lilies is a little tricky now as they are mounted to snot bricks, and the big pond isn’t deep enough to hold them, so will have to faff about with something else 🤔🙏🏻
Great tutorial!
Hi! Very good looking pond! Congrat!👍
Thank you! 🙏🏻
Looks great 👍
I'm super pleased with how it looks as well, very nice ^^
Thanks! 😁🙏🏻
Nice job 🙌🏻👊🏻
Great !
I love your pond! It's looking better all the time.
Thank you! 🙏🏻
I think the water turned out very nicely!
I've been following you for a long time now. This is the first video I got on my page in about 4 months and I just got notified today.
Amazing - I’ve had a busy few months with work, but I am back to it now! 😎
Amazing as always!
Thank you! 😎🙏🏻
Just discovered your channel!
Nice water technique.
I’ve just been given a 2nd botanical garden set, so am making a similar building/pond (just a bit smaller!)
Welcome! Thank you for your comment, you can do a lot with 2 sets to be honest! I used a lot of inventory parts in mine too so don’t be afraid to experiment! My base-idea was from rebrickable so have a look on there for inspiration too! Good luck! 😎
@@ZooBricks thanks for the rebrickable hint.
I have my own channel and have done a lot of “buy two sets and double them up” type videos, but normally city sets, so probably nothing that would look at home in a zoo!! ! ;)
@MinifigJez cool, I’ll check it out! 😎
@@ZooBricks Don't know if you saw my reply to your comment on my play button video, but it's really cool you've got 2K+ subs with the channel only being a year old. It's a really unique idea (loads of people put zoo's in their Lego cities, but a I haven't seen such a HUGE zoo before... that's why you got a sub form me !
Just love seeing the progress, techniques and ideas.
looks amazing!
Thanks! 🙏🏻
The time investment paid off. It looks great!
Thank you! 🙏🏻
What a great Pond!
Really nice video from you. The pond looks much better now. A difference like night and day. A pair of swan would be nice on the pond. Mourning swans or mute swans would be nice. Now the question is, is there something like that from Lego? If you still have butterflies, I would put them in the botanical garden. I'm looking forward to your next video. 💪💪👍
Thank you! A few layers of plate/tiles makes all the difference! I’ve had a look and Lego doesn’t do Swans 😐 so its going to have to be some form of duck/seagull I reckon 🤔
@@ZooBricks You could also try to make a swan with Aproxi and use a duck as the body?
Hi Maxine, the pond looks great... the dark blue for the deeper area at the end of the jetty really works.
Re the wall, what about using piece no. 49307 to cap it off? And also, for a wild animal, you could put somewhere, i've used the Niffler from the Newt Scamander figure as a mole popping out of a mound in a grassy area.
Hey! Yes - thats the same part that is around the small pond.. I’ll have to play around with a few ideas I reckon. I just bought niffler when I got the capybara in the other day so thats a great idea! I wasn’t sure what I was actually going to do with him.. I just liked him 😅🤓
Just found your channel, love your videos! Any chance you can do a video on building techniques for trees and maybe parts? i really like some of the trees in your cute zoo!:)
Great idea! I’ll add it to the list 😊🤓
You should get in touch with beyond the brick as your zoo is becoming so awesome!
Aw that’s so kind - one day maybe.. one day 😁
that tip about not snapping them down until you are sure is genius. It should be a natural thought, but I did not. Have you tried the trans blue wedges to give it some movement?
I learned the hard way putting plate down and having to take it back up, it is a nightmare. I added a few little wedges here and there under the waterfall and around the rocks, not too much though as I liked the glass effect. Thanks for watching! 😎🙏🏻
What is the story with your layout Maxine? Is it for /located at the Zoo that you work at? Or is it your personal build?
Hey! The end goal is for it to be on display at the real-life Zoo. The animals/layout doesn’t match the actual zoo as we have some unusual species that Lego doesn’t make, for example - snow leopard, lynx, lemur, arctic fox, porcupine, etc) for this reason, the Lego Zoo (unnamed as of yet!) is just focussed on whatever animals Lego does - I think Lego species are probably more appealing and interesting for people to look at anyways! I work on the project in my spare time and want to share it with anyone wanting to build the same 😊🙏🏻
Excellent work - I've not seen the Koi carp tiles before; what set are they from?
Sorry, now that I've watched more of the video, you've said where they came from...
how many animals will you add to the zoo?
As many as I can fit in the space, it would be nice to represent ‘all’ of the available species but we’ll see how it goes! 😁
I love it. Ive been wanting to get a few copies of this friends set to do something similar but i can never find it on sale. I might have to just get them at full retail. But how many copies do i need...
That is the question! I looked on Rebrickable beforehand to get an idea of size and what I could achieve with how many sets. I bought it on sale on Argos (UK) I think, I didn’t get it cheap from Lego sadly 😕
@ZooBricks I don't believe we have them here in the US. But I never find it on sale at Walmart or target either
You missed your chance to put the skeleton in the water
Fail. 😅
Looks great
Thank you! 🙏🏻