Winter Ice Flowers

To say thank you for your 1,000+ votes of support on my Winter Ice Flowers project, I wanted to share some of the alternate color builds I tried for the large peony-type statement flower I built from cockpits.

Here’s version #3 with transparent pink and light blue cockpits and purple and orange flames. This has less contrast than the red and blue one, but I love how the pink and blue differ but are matched in saturation.

And here they are with the other winter ice flowers.

Although I actually think these versions are more visually interesting, I went with version #1 in the end. That's mostly because I wanted the colors of the overall arrangement to be more balanced, and I had limited palette options for each flower type. I also thought that having more transparent light blue added to the icy, wintery feel.

But if I had all the pieces available in all of the possible transparent colors, I might choose differently! Maybe I'll try building my ideal combination in Stud.io to celebrate 5,000. Please share this project so we can achieve that!

I'm curious: which version would you choose?

I'm so happy you're enjoying my Idea! To celebrate 500+ votes of support, I rebuilt one of the flower types in a different color. (Recoloring the flowers in LEGO's Botanicals collection is always so fun!)

Here's what the umbrella flowers look like rebuilt in transparent purple and bright green!

I really love this color combination. I considered including one purple and one pink umbrella flower stem. But in the end I went with the pink and green umbrellas for the actual build, since I wanted a wide range of colors overall, and I already had other purple flowers. Figuring out which flowers I could build in what available piece colors was quite a logic puzzle!

Here, I rebuilt the purple version with a more upright stem also, though I like the way the drooping pink flower stem fills the space with the other flowers in the original display. I used the same stem pieces for both, so a builder could choose whichever they preferred. And I remixed the plate and cone pieces for the buds, too.

Here are the pink umbrella flower stems by themselves, for reference.

I hope you enjoy seeing these recolored flowers! I'd love to hear which color combination is your favorite -- let me know in the comments! Thank you again for your support!

Thank you all for your support! To celebrate, here’s an example of how I’ve been using the Winter Ice Flowers snowy base as a minifig display diorama with other minifigures and accessories. I call this one Extreme Rabbit Scientist. (Surely the rabbits will treat him as just another bunny?)

Note: this is a bonus display example of how builders could modify the idea to show off their own collections, not a change to the original build.

(Although this former police officer may be a permanent rabbit impersonator now, unless I can get his head out of that rabbit hat…)