I am not a fan of any of the LEGO designed Christmas trees. I wanted something that looked more random while still showing that it is made of LEGO.
I was experimenting with different techniques one day and inspiration struck on how I could achieve this randomness. While it did allow me to make a tree that I am very happy with, it doesn’t allow a lot of freedom to “decorate it” for Christmas. I can take 1×1 plates and tiles in multiple colors to put on top of the lower branches to look like lights or I can put plates or bricks under the branches to look like ornaments, but that is mostly to the bottom 2/3rds of the tree. It also doesn’t adapt easily to adding snow which is what I was hoping for.
But I thought they worked well just as trees and have included them in my displays and I have received comments of people liking the trees. I have a whole forest of them and so thought I would just display a portion of that forest.
I knew I had arrived as a LEGO artist when I had someone purchase some of these trees.
At this show, I have added a lighted campfire from BrickStuff. It is currently the only thing I have on my full display that has any light or motion although I hope to branch out into more of the very soon. I am excited to see how it looks at the “World of Lights” with just a single campfire in the middle of a grove of trees with darkness all around.
When inspiration finally strikes, I want to build a scene inside a forest. The full idea of what I want to do has not fleshed itself out yet. Until then, please enjoy just a simple forest of trees.
One day I will publish instructions for building these, specifically highlighting this technique for creating “randomness” because I would love to see what others can do with it.
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