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!
Oh WOW!!! The finished pond looks amazing! That depth trick with the darkening shading turned out great, and your herring bone shimmer effect looks good on camera, I expect even better in person. I know you said no more animals, but you simply must put at least one "hidden" frog in there somewhere... It's kind of LEGO tradition to work frogs into builds, and even if it's not officially an animal exhibit, as I'm sure you well know, NATURE finds a way and wild animals often take up unintended residence in various parts of IRL zoos. Keep up the great work, I'm quite enjoying the ride, but that's all for tonight. I'll watch more later. Until then, happy building!
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! 🙏🏻
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.
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! 😁
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!! ! ;)
@@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 !
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 🤔🙏🏻
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 😅🤓
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! 😎🙏🏻
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 🤔
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! 😎🙏🏻
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!:)
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 😊🙏🏻
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 😕
Your pond looks wonderful, the variation in blue really gives it depth.
Thank you so much! You should try it too! 😎
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! 🙏🏻
Oh WOW!!! The finished pond looks amazing! That depth trick with the darkening shading turned out great, and your herring bone shimmer effect looks good on camera, I expect even better in person. I know you said no more animals, but you simply must put at least one "hidden" frog in there somewhere... It's kind of LEGO tradition to work frogs into builds, and even if it's not officially an animal exhibit, as I'm sure you well know, NATURE finds a way and wild animals often take up unintended residence in various parts of IRL zoos. Keep up the great work, I'm quite enjoying the ride, but that's all for tonight. I'll watch more later. Until then, happy building!
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! 🙏🏻
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! 🙏🏻
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! 🙏🏻😎
Wow what a transformation on the pond! It looks so much better!
I love the little fish!
Thank you! 🙏🏻
Really love the herringbone pattern for the water. Stunning end result. 🤩
Thank you 🙏🏻😎
Agreed. She catches the light really well with that pattern!
Love the way you did the water. Cant wait for the zoo to grow.
Thank you! Me neither! 😎
looks awesome, great technique, !
Precioso!!!! ❤ un gran trabajo 😊
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! 😁
Great work
Looks great.
Looks great!
Looks great
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 !
Looks great 😃
Looks great 👍
Amazing as always!
Thank you! 😎🙏🏻
Hi! Very good looking pond! Congrat!👍
Thank you! 🙏🏻
Great tutorial!
Great !
Nice job 🙌🏻👊🏻
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! 😎🙏🏻
looks amazing!
Thanks! 🙏🏻
Just love seeing the progress, techniques and ideas.
Gorgeous water work. Just found your channel and subscribed - I love your style!
The time investment paid off. It looks great!
Thank you! 🙏🏻
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 🤔🙏🏻
I love your pond! It's looking better all the time.
Thank you! 🙏🏻
Very Good
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!
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 😅🤓
What a great Pond!
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! 😎
I think the water turned out very nicely!
Looks excellent Maxine !
Looks great! You might consider adding a frog or two in/ by the pond 🙂
Definitely - the pond needs livening up now!
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! 😎🙏🏻
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?
I'm super pleased with how it looks as well, very nice ^^
Thanks! 😁🙏🏻
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! 😎🙏🏻
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 😁
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 😊🤓
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...
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. 😅
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! 😁
Looks great
Thank you! 🙏🏻