Northern Woods Rustic Camp LEGO Ideas Project Review

Overview
This project by jarchitecture portrays a camp out in the great northern woods full of birch and pine trees. Although this camp looks comfy from the outside, it is not a camp for your everyday city-slicker minifigure as there is no running water or electricity according to the project page.



Appeals of this Project
The Northern Woods Rustic Camp is an absolutely beautiful project, just as the northern woods are beautiful. The pine trees and the wonderfully build birch trees set the atmosphere quite nicely for this project. The manner in which the birch trees are built is absolutely magnificent, and very realistic considering the scale, and the different shades of green in the pine trees add a nice accent.

Now, let's explore this camp from a minifigure's perspective. First we start at a cozy cabin. This cabin has a single sloped roof and double porch, pot bellied stove and just enough room for a few bunks with built in dressers for the campers. As we continue to traverse the camp, we discover an outdoor kitchen complete with a fireplace, table, chairs, and cooling supplies. This looks like a wonderful place to stop and rest a spell while we fill up on some grub after a long day out in the woods.

After mess call is over and dishes are done the minifigures can head out to the fire pit for a rattling good yarn (a good story for those city slicking minifigures) and some s'mores roasted over the camp fire. Then it is a quick stop by the shower house (not pictured) and the outhouse before hitting the bunk because tomorrow is going to be a busy day out on the water canoeing and kayaking.

Areas for Improvement
This project is very nice throughout, but I would like to see some minifigures populating the camp. Yes, there are some minifigures in the watercraft update, but I would also like to see two or three that are posed in each of the different camp sections (they can be the same minifigures as far as I am concerned). Right now, the camp looks great, but also looks like a ghost camp. Adding a few minifigures to the images would make it much more appealing to me.

Conclusion
From the cabin to the kitchen to the pine and birch forest, this is a well designed and build project. With the addition of a few campers, I believe this would make an amazing set if it reaches 10,000 supporters and passes the Official LEGO Ideas Review process. To see more pictures and offer your support, you can click here to visit this project on LEGO Ideas.

Photos used and review completed with the permission of jarchitecture.