NInjago City, Docks, Gardens & Airjitzu temple layout

Powderfinger

VERY rudimentary but any ideas of a better layout in putting these sets together?
Where there are plates there will be water of course, the two small buildings from Airjitzu will be on rocks and so on.

Cymbeline

I rarely post any of my MOCS or MODS because my photography skills are abysmal but here is my take on combining the 4 big Ninjago sets. Originally everything fit on a 96 x 80 foot print but now that I've added in Ninjago City Gardens I'm left with a 32 x 48 space to fill.

560Heliport

#80107 Spring Lantern Festival is 32x48... 😃

Cymbeline

Yes I have #80107 and it is a lovely set but I don't think that it fits with the Ninjago theme. It would be a fun project to combine all the different Chinese festival sets into one baseplate based modular display though. 

Yellowcastle2

Simply fantastic. Thanks!

Powderfinger

Looks awesome, nice rock building! Kinda hard to see but did you build the water like in City/Gardens, to get a feeling of different depths? Just realized I need a lot of pieces...

mr_benn

Really like what you've done with the temple - looks great suspended above the water!

Cymbeline

@Powderfinger - The water is mainly black plates with trans light blue tiles on top except in places where I wanted the water to look shallower - then I used lighter coloured plates underneath the tiles. I under estimated the number of trans light blue tiles I would need several times and had to keep ordering. I think I ended up with about a thousand.

Powderfinger

Cymbeline said:

@Powderfinger - The water is mainly black plates with trans light blue tiles on top except in places where I wanted the water to look shallower - then I used lighter coloured plates underneath the tiles. I under estimated the number of trans light blue tiles I would need several times and had to keep ordering. I think I ended up with about a thousand.

Yeah, I made a rough estimate on tiles that was 30% off, I'm so not a maths person...