Die Bricke Wochenschau: Napoleonic Wars tent MOC

Welcome back to Die Bricke Wochenschau. This week we take a look at my latest MOC. This one is a small one I built in like 5 hours (3 of them to build the tree) and I think it will be the first of some but we will see. I plan my next bigger MOC to be about the First Chechen War but in the meantime I want to build some smaller MOCs. This first one is inspired by a visit I made in September 2024 to Hostalrich castle where as every year Napoleonic Wars reenactors were there recreating different daily scenes of the Napoleonic era armies and the French ones had tents built as if they were resting. I will show you a picture of it too. One day I will build a MOC about the castle because the story it has is interesting and the desing is really cool. Since I saw it I wanted to recreate one of these tents in LEGO so shortly after I built some wedge plates to do the triangle shape they have when you look their front part. Because of different reasons it wasn't until now that I decided to build it and I wanted to test again building trees too. I wanted a tree to go next to it in a simple scene but I think it looks nice. In the scene a soldier and an official talk in front of the tent that lies next to a tree to partially cover it from the Sun.

For the first time ever I counted how many parts I used (I did it counting them while scrapping the MOC) and the total amount is 862. The tree you see has almost half of them. I'm really happy with how the whole MOC turned out. The tent looks really good I think and the tree too. It represents a tree that could be found at any Mediterranean country. As always I guess it can be improved and I will think of ways to do it. The technic for the tree is the best one I used so far. Even there are many kind of trees and plants in the world and you can't use the same technics for them all I think this is still the best tree I have built so far. It was the part I enjoyed the most building and I would love to build a MOC someday with some of them in a scene representing a forest or a Roman Villa for example. The trunk is made with plates on 4 sides holded by 1x1 bricks with a stud on one side. Next time the challenge will be to recreate some roots of the tree coming out of the floor!