Minifigure Holding a Tile/Plate

In this tutorial you will learn how you can make a minifigure hold a plate in LDD

The technique was not actually invented by me but I tried my best to simplify it and make it smaller.
Now here's what I came up with:

Step 1:
Build this little contraption.

Step 2:
Place it in the minifigure's hand and pose the hand like you want.
Notice: If you want the hand tilted then do it now because once it "holds" the plate you can't turn it anymore (LDD doesn't recognize the hand and the plate as connected and so only the hand would move and the plate would stay where it is)

Step 3:
Now remove the green part and place your desired tile. (If this doesn't work at the first time select the purple plate, the red part and the plate and move them along the orange holder until you find the optimal position).

Step 4:
Finally remove the purple plate, the red part and the orange holder and voila, your minifigure is now holding a tile!

Of course It also works with round tiles and normal plates.

With some very small modifications it even works with a 1x1 tile!
In order to make this work slide down the whole contraption for half a stud since the plate that we now want the minifigure to hold is only one stud wide.
After that you just have to remove the minifigure upper part and place the two brown bricks. On top of these two you put the plate.

Now remove the two brown pieces and put the upper part again to it's right position.
If everything fits right clear out the rest and then it's finished!

Interesting fact:
The same technique also works for the One Ring!

Thanks for reading!

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