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I haven't touched the page I made up in a while, but here it is:
http://www.sirius.com/~latha/lego/modules/standards.htm
Mike Poindexter
PS: Target is carrying the 3033 blue tub here. Perhaps we will see cheap
prices in January. Of course, they will never have the volume to make some
seriously large layouts, but they can cut the cost of a module down.
Kim Toll <kim.toll@intel.com> wrote in message news:G5LKE3.3Iz@lugnet.com...
> 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? • I
> have several structures I've been playing with but it seems silly not to
> look at what others have used successfully.
>
> 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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My bad. The detail pictures are not in the standards page.
http://www.sirius.com/~latha/lego/modules/standards.htm
Choose lattice.jpg to see the lattice structure up close and overview to see
several modules in progress. I thought I had better pictures than these,
but my memory fails me now. I had to take a 4 month hiatus from Lego for
the nut harvest and am just getting back into the swing.
Mike
Mike Poindexter <lego@poindexter.cc> wrote in message
news:G5Msq8.2KF@lugnet.com...
> I haven't touched the page I made up in a while, but here it is:
>
> http://www.sirius.com/~latha/lego/modules/standards.htm
>
> Mike Poindexter
>
> PS: Target is carrying the 3033 blue tub here. Perhaps we will see cheap
> prices in January. Of course, they will never have the volume to make • some
> seriously large layouts, but they can cut the cost of a module down.
>
> Kim Toll <kim.toll@intel.com> wrote in message • news:G5LKE3.3Iz@lugnet.com...
> > 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? • I
> > have several structures I've been playing with but it seems silly not to
> > look at what others have used successfully.
> >
> > 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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In lugnet.trains, Mike Poindexter writes:
> My bad. The detail pictures are not in the standards page.
>
> http://www.sirius.com/~latha/lego/modules/standards.htm
>
> Choose lattice.jpg to see the lattice structure up close and overview to see
> several modules in progress. I thought I had better pictures than these,
> but my memory fails me now. I had to take a 4 month hiatus from Lego for
> the nut harvest and am just getting back into the swing.
>
> Mike
Thanks Mike,
You have a couple of daunting looking pictures you have up there :\
So how many 3033 tubs does it take you to do, say a 40"x60" module? Just
the 22 brick high build-up, not all the structures & scenery on top of it?
I'm trying to approximate how many bricks its going to take me to do
something like this and I'd appreciate your empirical data. All my data is
based on paper calculations, which, though it bears some resemblance to
reality, is generally not as accurate as real life experience.
Thanks,
Kim
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In lugnet.trains, Kim Toll writes:
> In lugnet.trains, Mike Poindexter writes:
> > My bad. The detail pictures are not in the standards page.
> >
> > http://www.sirius.com/~latha/lego/modules/standards.htm
> >
> > Choose lattice.jpg to see the lattice structure up close and overview to see
> > several modules in progress. I thought I had better pictures than these,
> > but my memory fails me now. I had to take a 4 month hiatus from Lego for
> > the nut harvest and am just getting back into the swing.
> >
> > Mike
>
>
> Thanks Mike,
> You have a couple of daunting looking pictures you have up there :\
Uh, I meant...You have a couple of daunting looking picutures up there! :\
Kim
> So how many 3033 tubs does it take you to do, say a 40"x60" module? Just
> the 22 brick high build-up, not all the structures & scenery on top of it?
> I'm trying to approximate how many bricks its going to take me to do
> something like this and I'd appreciate your empirical data. All my data is
> based on paper calculations, which, though it bears some resemblance to
> reality, is generally not as accurate as real life experience.
>
> Thanks,
> Kim
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I believe from my memory that I can build four 30"x45" modules with about
200 of the blue tubs. It would build 3 normal modules and one 2x4/2x6
hybrid module. The hybrid would use 2x4 for the walls and 2x2 for the
towers, but use 2x6 for the lattice grids and tops.
Your mileage may vary.
Mike
Toll, Kim <kim.toll@intel.com> wrote in message
news:G5n8GM.8MM@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.trains, Kim Toll writes:
> > In lugnet.trains, Mike Poindexter writes:
> > > My bad. The detail pictures are not in the standards page.
> > >
> > > http://www.sirius.com/~latha/lego/modules/standards.htm
> > >
> > > Choose lattice.jpg to see the lattice structure up close and overview to • see
> > > several modules in progress. I thought I had better pictures than • these,
> > > but my memory fails me now. I had to take a 4 month hiatus from Lego • for
> > > the nut harvest and am just getting back into the swing.
> > >
> > > Mike
> >
> >
> > Thanks Mike,
> > You have a couple of daunting looking pictures you have up there :\
>
> Uh, I meant...You have a couple of daunting looking picutures up there! :\
> Kim
>
> > So how many 3033 tubs does it take you to do, say a 40"x60" module? Just
> > the 22 brick high build-up, not all the structures & scenery on top of • it?
> > I'm trying to approximate how many bricks its going to take me to do
> > something like this and I'd appreciate your empirical data. All my data • is
> > based on paper calculations, which, though it bears some resemblance to
> > reality, is generally not as accurate as real life experience.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Kim
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