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Re: Info o GMLTC Style Honeycomb structure
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 15 Dec 2000 07:24:47 GMT
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johnneal@uswest[avoidspam].net
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Kim Toll wrote:
> I'm working on a module for the PNLTC display at GATS next year (in Feb) and
> I'm interested in building up a bit of a Lego landscape similar to the GMLTC
> modules.
>
> Now don't go thinking I've totaly abandoned plywood. I'm still a
> dyed-in-the-wool plywooder. I don't have enough bricks for anything else :)
> But, I'd like to build up a 5 to 6 brick layer that I can use for some
> relief in the terrain. And of course, I'd like to do it with the fewest
> number of bricks possible.
>
> I seem to recal quite a discussion here a year or two ago between Mike
> Poindexter and some of the GMLTC John's (1, 2 or 3, maybe all of them :)
> about the honeycomb structure they used in their modules. And I think there
> was a web site where some of this was documented. Could someone point me to
> this, or alternately, attempt to describe, in text, the method they use?
Hey Kim-
Glad to help out someone off the plywood;-) John Gerlach posted on his Brickbay
page the pattern we at the GMLTC have perfected. Check it out here:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=1734
Be careful up there at 5 bricks high-- you might need oxygen;-D
-John (J-2)
> I
> have several structures I've been playing with but it seems silly not to
> look at what others have used successfully.
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> I'm open to any other suggestions people have. My goals are that it has to
> be sturdy, and it needs to use as few bricks as possible. These two goals
> are in tension, but I'm sure I can come up with a happy compromise.
>
> Now, before any of you go flogging me for not checking the mail archives,
> let me tell you that I tried. But mail search has been disabled :(
> (Apparently this is causing (or contributing) to some instability in the
> servers, so Todd has shut it donw for a while.) So that wasn't much help.
> And slogging through thousands of posts by hand seemed daunting.
>
> Thus, my message. Besides, more than one of us may learn something this way!
>
> Thanks in advance for any help on this.
>
> Kim
> PNLTC member
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