Angel Tree

Name of Model: Angel Tree

Created by: MisaQa

Found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/misaqa/sets/72157623356939918/ (flickr set for additional ornaments and tree) http://www.flickr.com/photos/misaqa/sets/72157623232348873/ (flickr set for angels individually) http://www.flickr.com/photos/misaqa/sets/72157623231749917/ (flickr set for angels as a group) http://www.flickr.com/photos/misaqa/collections/72157623232514977/ (flickr collection with all three sets)

Details: There have been surprisingly few interesting ideas for building holiday angels to decorate with at this time of year. MisaQa (of advent calendar fame) has built a spectacular set of miniland-scale angels in various poses with various tools. Some of the details here are exceptionally clever - a silver "cupid" arrow made out of an Aquanaut harpoon and a light saber hilt, with feathers from a Wild West native; parts of levers used as blooming flowers; carefully arranged clikits, clikit hearts used in-scale on angels with sand red hair. The angels figures alone are worth featuring, but she also built a full set of ornaments to round out a tree. The ornaments include some tricks we've seen before, but also make excellent use of rare and seemingly difficult to use parts from a number of places - we see Writing System pen sections, DUPLO, Clikits, and Belville parts all used to great effect in ways that make you wonder why you haven't tried them sooner.