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I'm a minifig enthusiast and was dissatisfied with some of the choices in the official. So I wanted to share my purist modifications. These are personal preferences so I won't be calling them objectively better, but please let me know what you think.

I was mostly happy with the Gondor soldiers except for the faces which I all thought were a little too boy-faced, so I switched them out to have more facial hair. I also gave them some proper spears. The black hands looked off to me so I swapped the whole torso to the one from Dragonborn paladin which also has some sweet arm print. This left me with 4 leftover torsos.

2 of them are archers and the other 2 some sort of cadet I suppose. I haven't really decided exactly what to do with these.

My least favorite fig was unfortunately Gandalf. Aside from the loss of his old beard/hair combo I wasn't a fan of the tan printing at all. Since I already have (what I believe) the better version from 2013 I decided to give him some grey cloaks that he wears at Edoras which also covers most of the tan details. I wouldn't really call this an improvement to the overall fig, it's just what I did.

Pippin is great, just a bit cheap that they wouldn't give him a Gondor helmet.

Faramir was my most anticipated and he looks fantastic apart from the horrendous hair they gave him. He's not supposed to look like Isaac Newton is he? As you can see his hair is about the same as Boromir, a little wavier perhaps, but mostly the same. Also, why do Lego insists on making the brothers gingers? Also gave him a ranger sword from Rivendell.

Denethor is good, just thought he should have some sort of a cape.

Arwen is interesting. I understand she doesn't really have any remarkable detail to her dress, but to give her arm printing and then leave the dress unprinted looked odd to me. They could have at least given her some thin lines. The dress I used is from Princess Tiana which I think looks better than nothing at all. I was also bothered by the one size fits all hairpiece, so I used old Elrond's hair, which also has the crown going all the way.

Aragorn is obviously really good, but I was sad that they didn't care to give him a full beard. This head from Sirius Black has grown on me, and I think it matches his slightly tired and older appearance in that scene too.

It had so many nice little touches and build techniques. Was interesting throughout and looks magnificent when complete. Very heavy though! A+ on the enjoyment scale!

Need extra room for helms deep i guess

Time to start :)

From the lowest dungeon to the highest peak…until at last I threw down my enemy..

Super stoked on how this turned out. Learned a lot of cool techniques in the process I’ve never used before. No studio, just bricks.

More videos and pictures on my instagram: magnoliabricks

A scene I made a few years ago.

I've always wanted to have a lego LOTR game accurate Tom Bombadil so I decided to make one:

To make this minifigure I started by using a graphic design software called GIMP to design the torso design. I then printed it out on waterslide decal paper and transferred it onto the minifigure torso. I used clear waterslide decal paper for the black lines and white paper for the belt. For the legs, I used the black Vulcan's legs but used an eraser to remove the unwanted print, and after many broken attempts, I swapped the black hip piece for a brown one. The original hat I made was from a knockoff Pirates of the Caribbean Angelica minifigure that I removed the hair from, painted, and glossed. Later on, I made another hat that is more accurate to the official LEGO design from the Lord of the Rings video game. I took several LEGO pieces, including a bucket piece (95343), a dish (piece 4740), a stud (piece 85861), and another stud with a bar in the top (piece 20482) that I sanded and super glued together to form the hat. I also used some resin in the top of the hat to fill in the hole (the bottom of the bucket). Then, I primed, painted, and glossed it along with a feather to complete it. Which hat do you think looks better?

I'm preparing some stuff for the MOC I'm finishing the work on and decided to go with last years approach.

For this minifigure, I got a really cool resin 3D-printed Witch-king LEGO piece from the.bricknook on Facebook. Then, I primed it, painted it, and did a semi-gloss finish with Mod Podge. Since I did not have the actual Ringwraith torso, I used waterslide decal paper that I first painted a layer of gray onto, printed the black robe design on top, and then transferred it onto the torso. The cape is just a knockoff one from online. Have you seen any Fell Beast MOCs I could use for this minifigure?

Hello, this is my first post. I wanted to share my Orthanc upgrade with you. I’m open to your comments and suggestions for improvement, thank you.

Can’t believe I managed to pick one up, considering where I live (Asia) and this was a US exclusive release!

I really appreciated all the love from my original post and took some of the advice in the comments. Probably done for a bit, as I don’t have the room to enlarge it more. I really had a blast with this one!

This was a really fun build! Took about 2 weeks to complete.

Hiya guys back again!

Today we’ve got my display expansion for 79017, went with an expansion/integration of the watchtower into a wall on either side with one being captured during its demise! Although the battle field might look a little empty this was done on purpose to allow me to fit lots of figures in and make this a proper battle scene outside the city of dale.

The expansion is roughly 2500 and features room to place the ballista wherever your heart desires.

Here's just some renders of some minifigures I designed on GIMP, then put into Mecabricks. They are based off of the LEGO LOTR game.

Noticed the witch king crown immediately, shortly later galadriel's head. Paid 20€ for the bag, felt like a good deal.