 | | The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide —Didier Enjary
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| | | Hi, (URL) "Télécharger document" , pdf document - 1,7Mb ) Well, almost everything is said in the document introduction. Since I've discovered the community 4 years ago, I feel the need for a compilation of building techniques. More recently, reading (...) (17 years ago, 11-Feb-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.schleim) !!
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| | | | | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide —David Gregory
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| | | | | (...) This is a very useful resource. Thanks for putting it together! David (17 years ago, 11-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim)
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| | | | | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide —Joe Meno
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| | | | | (...) Nice work collating this information, Didier! This is the kind of stuff I ike to keep as reference! Joe (17 years ago, 11-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim)
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| | | | | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide —Nathan Todd
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| | | | | Wow! Thanks for all this hard work. There wasn't much not familiar in there (at first glance) but to have all this knowledge in one place instead of scattered all over the Lego web is brilliant! Thanks again! God Bless, Nathan (who is looking (...) (17 years ago, 11-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide —Kevin Heckel
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| | | | | Hey Didier, This is a pretty good start towards a technique compendium, but I can think of a few things you missed. There's element stressing (as (URL) discussed> at Brickfest '06), and I think it would benefit from a section on articulation. After (...) (17 years ago, 12-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide —Ross Crawford
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| | | | | | | (...) You could always add any techniques you like to the (URL) BrickWiki> (URL) building techniques> category. As it's a wiki, it can be edited by anyone, including you! ROSCO (17 years ago, 12-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide —Mark Rideout
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| | | | | | | | | (...) I was about to suggest that a wiki would be the perfect way to organize/document Technic building techniques. I didn't know about brickwiki! -mark (17 years ago, 12-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide —Kevin Heckel
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| | | | | | | | | Alas! A tragedy of redundancy. I guess I have to bookmark it now, even though I can't be bothered to contribute. Perhaps the wiki might benefit from some marketing? I don't see any links on Lugnet, for example... (17 years ago, 12-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide —Didier Enjary
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| | | | | | | | (...) Hi Ross, As you know I've contributed/supported BrickWiki from the very beginning in every ways I could. I still hope it will encounter more audience than it has today (both for the contributors and readers part of the audience). I hope this (...) (17 years ago, 12-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide —Elroy Davis
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| | | | | | | | | (...) Didier, I completely agree with this statement. I think online resources are awesome, but I, at least, don't build in front of my computer. Having an off-line document like this that pulls everything together will easily find it's way to my (...) (17 years ago, 12-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide —Ted Godwin
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| | | | | | | | | | I also prefer offline documents but I would rather download a small single-technique .pdf file than a large book of techniques when I just want to to try one particular thing. The ultimate would be a set of BrickWiki articles each with a (...) (17 years ago, 12-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide —Kevin Heckel
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| | | | | | | | (...) Not good enough. Wishing is no excuse for not promoting a site you claim to believe in. I did a quick search to get some context on the history of this wiki, and there are many roffles to be had, but (URL) this thread> basically tells you all (...) (17 years ago, 13-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide —Ross Crawford
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| | | | | | | | | (...) Didier already includes links to Brickwiki in his PDF document, that's good. But as much as it needs promotion, Brickwiki needs contributors too. Unfortunately most people would rather use the information than add to it (human nature), but I (...) (17 years ago, 14-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide —Tim David
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| | | | | | | | (...) The brickwiki (or the trains bit anyway) is linked from the .trains sidebar and for its first year or so had a bigger mention higher up the page too. Tim (meaning you need to check out .trains :-) ) (17 years ago, 15-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide —Didier Enjary
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| | | | | | | In lugnet.build.schleim, Kevin Heckel wrote: Hi Kevin (...) This presentation about stressing the elements is HUGE but suffer from being not widely known. Every builder have to read it. (...) Yes. Seen very good things on mechahub about articulation (...) (17 years ago, 12-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide —Didier Enjary
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| | | | | | (...) I just forget to mention the blog "Unique Brique Techniques" (the link is in the lugnet.build.schleim side bar) (URL) A blog I was used to check on a daily basis but unfortunately no more updated :-( Of course, this blog is not an organized (...) (17 years ago, 12-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide —Nathan Todd
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| | | | | | | (...) Nice link... Thanks much! God Bless, Nathan (URL) (17 years ago, 12-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide —Linus Bohman
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| | | | | | (...) It is true that UBT does not update anymore, but one of its contributor is now involved in (URL) The Brothers Brick>. The content from UBT will also be ported to that blog (if it hasn't already). TBB mainly highlights good mocs, but we also do (...) (17 years ago, 16-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide —Jason J Railton
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| | | | | (...) Didier - congratulations on putting this together. It's a very useful resource. My apologies to the Brick-Wiki-Fiddlers, but I much prefer a well-written document like this to inter-linked pages. BrickWiki may be useful as a reference, but a (...) (17 years ago, 12-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide —Didier Enjary
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| | | | | | (...) SNIP (...) Thank you Jason, (...) It seem LL Designers are really into making letterings those days - I've seen a lot on BS pictures from LLCA. (...) The construction of these characters is really difficult and your regular method is now of (...) (17 years ago, 14-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide —Jason J Railton
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| | | | | | (...) Oh yes, I didn't mean they look better, just that they're simpler. It just means I can do the British train mark 'L.M.S.' using only vertical plates, so I can fit it on a smaller engine than this one! (URL) It can look better if you make the (...) (17 years ago, 14-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide —Jason J Railton
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| | | | | | (...) of a brick, and three plates on the other. Here are my 4-stud-vertical fonts, including all the alternatives that were cut from the (URL) Brick Issue> (URL) #3> article. I've added numbers too: (URL) I've provided the thin type, with some (...) (17 years ago, 15-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide —Holger Matthes
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| | | | | Hi Didier, thanks for this great resource for advanced use of LEGO elements! You've collected much more SNOT and Co. stuff then I did when I did my website years ago. And yes, there are allways new elements and there are so many hobbiest finding (...) (17 years ago, 13-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide —Didier Enjary
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| | | | | | (...) Thank you Holger. Your website is the one where I discovered SNOT for the first time and it made me enjoy fine building techniques. SNIP (...) Yes, and we have to learn about the rules if we want to break them the best way :-) (...) Awesome (...) (17 years ago, 14-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide —Luca Giannitti
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| | | | | (...) Hi Didier, I think you have done a very good work! It's surprising how it is interesting to read even if you already know the techniques. Some years ago, I read something similar (but really don't know where on internet!) but it wasn't so (...) (17 years ago, 14-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim)
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| | | | | | | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide —Didier Enjary
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| | | | | | (...) Thank you Luca. (...) Yes I agree. Let me be clear. You know that eventhough some part of the guide content is directly from me, it is in fact a collection of stuffs which are not from me. All the content comes from (...) (17 years ago, 14-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim)
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| | | | | | | | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide —Didier Enjary
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| | | | | | (...) Here the .doc document splitted : Introduction, vocabulary and SNOT : (URL) (click "télécharger document") Offseting : (URL) From Letterings to Disclaimer : (URL) OpenOffice version : (URL) (17 years ago, 23-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim)
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| | | | | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide —Kelly McKiernan
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| | | | | (...) I've read your document, there are some very good techniques described, some of which I've used in a MOC I'm currently working on. I notice it seems to focus quite a bit on SNOT, are there plans to expand beyond that (like determining (...) (17 years ago, 15-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim)
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| | | | | | | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide —Didier Enjary
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| | | | | | (...) I have a few plans to expand but not in the ways you quote. I'd like to read about these themes from you. Eventhough since I've seen the setup of the"window into the community" in Portland, I'm not sure you're the one to speak about (...) (17 years ago, 15-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim)
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| | | | | | | | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide —Kelly McKiernan
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| | | | | | (...) Why do you think I need to read more about it??! :-D Oh, I can transport them just fine... so long as you'd like them to arrive in many, many pieces... - Kelly (17 years ago, 16-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim)
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| | | | | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide —William R. Ward
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| | | | | Great resource Didier! It's wonderful to have so many techniques compiled into one document. This would be perfect for handing out hard-copies of at LUG meetings, among many uses. A couple of things that occurred to me while reading it... 1. Minor (...) (17 years ago, 16-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim)
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| | | | | | | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide —Didier Enjary
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| | | | | | (...) Thank you - I'keep this thread in my bookmarks and I'll fix that in the next release (...) Yes, the SNIR chapter needs an improvment with advanced use of hinges parts. More ideas or resources ? Thanks, Didier (17 years ago, 18-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim)
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| | | | | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide —Linus Bohman
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| | | | | (...) Didier, this is a fantastic piece of work - even better since the last time I saw it. I'm terribly sorry in case you tried to reach me again; way back when I slipped of the 'net, my e-mail also went haywire and I completely forgot about this. (...) (17 years ago, 16-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim)
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| | | | | | | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide —Didier Enjary
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| | | | | | (...) SNIP (...) I'm terribly sorry in case you tried to reach me again; way back when I (...) It's my fault, I was perfectly aware about that situation and I should have contact you through CSF. (...) Yes, you are welcome for that. I have some (...) (17 years ago, 18-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim)
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| | | | | Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide —Matthew Jeffery
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| | | | (...) Wow, nice work Didier! I recall using the axle and tube method shown back in 2003-2004 when I built my completely stud free (correct proportion) monolith from 2001: (URL) I assume this technique was widely known before then but it surprised me (...) (17 years ago, 18-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim)
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