[MOC] Bridal bouquet with sunflowers (with "instructions")

[Pizzasemmel]

Hello flower friends,

I was pleasantly surprised when I first saw images of the Lego Flower Bouquet (10280-1). My wife does not like cut flowers, since they don't last and you enjoy them longer when left outside. So, why not put some flowers on the table that don't wilt.

Intrigued and inspired by the pretty simple techniques required, I decided to try and adapt them to build my wife some of her favourite flowers, sunflowers. I looked around and found no concept that I really liked. So I interated probably 10-15 versions in studio until i found the key part, Large Figure Armor Plate Small (28220) in yellow. Which has surpisingly good availability.

Since sunflowers are kinda boring on their own I decided to replicate her bridal bouquet. After some crazy internal work I finished on this:

 

I am really pleased how I managed to capture the thick, meaty appearanc of the base and the dwindly leaves around it,

Biggest issue for me is the stem. There are not that many round parts in green or even dark green, and the technic components are a compromise.

 

 

Here is a look inside. If you want to build them I can give you the stud.io file.

Spoiler

A dark green sterring wheel, 8 each for the green claw, clip and leaf piece. A dark green round plate.

2x 75937 offset by 1/16 rotation, held together by a 3 long bar (seen in LBG). 16 arms and 16 armor plates and you are done.

 

 

 

[Stuartn]

That techniqe you use for the flowers is brilliant, and teh complexity creates a great end result. The smaller white flowers are great too.