Help needed: Garden gnome

[BlueBard]

Hi, everybody!

I'm working on a garden MOC these days and I wish to put some garden gnomes in it but I can't find a nice idea/inspiration for them. It's a minifig-size MOC so the dwarves should be 2-stud tall max. Has anybody any idea/inspiration/advice? Thanks!

[Saint]

Hmm... that small ??

Try something with a red cheese-slope as a hat, perhaps some 1x1 in white and green ? and for a fishing rod a black screwdriver on a clip beside it.

I can build small, but I can't think of anything else right now

Perhaps somebody else ?

Grtz Saint

[AwesomeTaylor]

1x1 round in dark green, 1x1 round in white, and a red 1x1 round cone :)

[-zenn]

I'd say...

They are available in multiple colors.

http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=90398

[Cecilie]

It may be too big for you, but I remembered seeing some garden gnomes in a modular building that was posted here on EB that I really liked, so I searched it up:

Modular Cast Iron Florist by sonicstarlight.

His two garden gnomes (pic on flickr) are instantly recognizable.

[CorneliusMurdock]

My current avatar is a little over three studs. That's the smallest I've been able to come up with. I think it conveys the idea well enough and looks fine next to minifigs. Feel free to use and/or modify the design if you want to do it shorter.

[BlueBard]

Thanks for your help, everybody! You gave me really nice ideas

[Vindicare]

I'd say...

They are available in multiple colors.

http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=90398

How does that person on bricklink have all those colors? Did he custom paint them? To my knowledge, they've only made gold, silver and bronze...

[Follows Closely]

How does that person on bricklink have all those colors? Did he custom paint them? To my knowledge, they've only made gold, silver and bronze...

I see only 3 colors, the rest are wants.

[L@go]

If you swap that cone for a red lever/control stick base (this) it'd be one plate shorter, and probably still look the part.

[Vindicare]

I see only 3 colors, the rest are wants.

Ah, ok. Thanks for the clarification. I don't visit Bricklink much, and the guy I quoted saying they have many colors lost me. Sorry for the off topic, BlueBard.

[Captain Bayonet]

The trophy piece also comes printed in the Queen Anne's Revenge.

[-zenn]

The trophy piece also comes printed in the Queen Anne's Revenge.

Also a nice idea for a gnome.

http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=90398pb01

[Nick Wolfe]

Not sure if it's the right size, but the Dumbledore microfigure from the Harry Potter game works pretty well, I think it would work better than the trophy, but not as well as the brick built one.