Thestral Carriage

[Matn]

Today I wanted to make the carriage from the beginning of the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix book. It doesn't look very exciting in the movie, so I decided to make it as described in the book (well, all it says that it has a door and Ron dissapears in the darkness of the carriage, so)

Its drawn by thestrals, black thin/skelleton horses. The horses will be added later. I wanted to make it turn (in the front), but it didn't work out correctly and the other alternative looked way to long. But hower, I like it.

[uPDATE @ 22/03/09]:

Edited March 22, 2009 by Matn

[Wouwie]

Looks great Matn! Imagine that in gold

[Mr Spielbrick]

Niiiice carriage! Would look great in any Harry Potter, Sleepy Hollow or Victorian scene.

As for the front turning... Can't you put a 2 x 2 plate with an idependently turning circle in the middle, right behind the chair?

[Asuka]

Simply beautiful!

[Matn]

Thanks! I really appreciate your comments.

I'll try something later tonight, to make it turn. And to show the model, I will make a photo of the carriage in Victorian style, with figures and horses. Maybe I'll post it in the History board, or would that be unnecessary?

EDIT:

An update of the Thestral carriage, now it turns and it has horses. I made it one stud longer, so it can turn now.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30479264@N06/3019471288/

Edited November 10, 2008 by Matn

[jedikermit]

That is a beautiful carriage--hope you get those skellie horses soon. I like the idea of a Thestral Carriage set too...too bad Harry Potter got the deep-six.

[Lt. Col. Thok]

Very nicely done! Put a real horse in front, and it becomes an Eighteenth-Century carriage. Well done.

[Guss]

ohhhh that's nice!

I love it , that's a really cool design, the little scene with it is really cool too... I just have a question , does it open to let minifig goes in ? ^^

[Big Supie]

Really nice. Good job.

[Matn]

Thanks everyone.

No, it doesn't open. At first I made a door with a hinge on it, but I didn't like that so much and I figured out I wasn't going to use the open door anyway, it left it like this. Perhaps if I make some more carriages, there will be some with an open door to bring diversity.

[badboytje88]

I really really like this creation! You just need to make mare of them ;) Love to see it with some thestrals!

[Matn]

Here I am again, with some new and improved pictures. And I've added two thestrals!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30479264@N06/.../in/photostream

Comments?

[Derek]

Thats great! I love it! Its a shame that Lego didn't continue the Harry Potter line, there are soo many sets that could still be made, Including this one.

Nice work!

[badboytje88]

Wow that looks absolutely stunning!