When you want every Lego set and every Minifigure, you quickly run out of shelf space. The new series of Harry Potter sets which include two substantial Hogwarts castles in both mini and nano fig scales, are both highly desirable and have some great figs. Unfortunately, I personally, just don’t have the space nor the money for these two beauties.
I am on a mission to display my minifigs in various scenic displays of various genres. For Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts, a nice 16×16 Mini Hogwarts was a clear choice. Here you can see my final result which displays 17 Minifigures and 6 animals in the front and 4 minifigs and several accessories in the back.
In the back you can see how I mounted the flying Malfoy with a rather articulate arm which makes a lot of great posing angles possible.
Normally my 16×16 displays are pure facades without much detail in the back, but I made an exception with Hogwarts. I added the floating candles, storage for potions, a culdron, and the sorting hat in the back and placed 4 figs back there essentially in storage. Under the castle is a catacomb area which features the full body wizards chess and flying keys from the Sorcerer’s Stone.
Here is a brief video tour with a bit more commentary:
I sourced a lot of the parts and figures on Bricklink for far less than the main Great Hall set and for significantly less scratch than the 4 combined sets it takes to get all these figs.
Here are some pictures of the castle without the figs:
All in all, I am thrilled with how this 16×16 display came out and look forward to sharing and making more of them.
Virtual version
Here is a Stud.io version of the main castle build: Link to Bricklink Entry
Brilliantoso!
Hello Mark, I LOVE THIS, and would love if you could send me your LDD or Stud.io plans, I really want to make it myself, I too have no where to store my collector Mini figs 🙂
Thanks! I installed Studio the other day so I could start making a 3d model of this. I’m still learning the software so it is slow going. I’ll post the file when I get it done. I’m glad to hear other folk are interested in dense Minifig Display scenes. Thanks again.
Here is the Stud.io file: https://studio.bricklink.com/v2/build/upload.page?type=public&idModel=52319
The Bricklink file doesn’t work anymore. Did you share the instructions somewhere else. Or even just a part list. I might be able to figure it out if I had the parts. I can see a bunch, but I’m sure there’s a bunch hidden in there. The list could help with that 🙂 This is just TOO perfect!! I would LOVE to make one to display my HP minifigs! 🙂
Ooh, I had no idea the link stopped. I’ll see what I can do. I’m super happy to hear you like this little design!
I guess bricklink blocks it’s download since it has 3rd party inspiration. Quite a bugger. I’ll host the file on my site asap.
Thank you for replying!! I really love your work – you have a gift, that’s for sure! I was going through some old links I had saved and came across this post. Did you ever host the file for this on your site. I searched around a bunch but couldn’t find it. Thank you!!
Ah, I thought I posted it, I wonder if it was on bricklink and got thwumped…let me try to upload it to this site.
really cool,i like a lot how mant detail you put in a so small place!
Thanks! It is still amongst my top favorites of my little 16×16 mini castles and displays.