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Re: Half-Stud Offset Building
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Sun, 7 Oct 2001 20:20:10 GMT
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For a building I made, I had to make offsets like you are describing, and I
used 1x1 round plates on top of plates. The result is shown in this
picture:
http://members.home.net/edegiuli/lego/images/5-1.jpg
If you look on top of the little frilly thing, ie the balcony, you can see a
small gap between the bricks and the plate underneath. That is where one of
the offsets is. You can also see evidence of the offset if you look at the
gap between the 1x1 round brick columns and the plain bricks behind it.
This space wouldn't be possible without half-stud offsets. For other
creations, I've used 1x2 half stud offset tiles on the bottom, and bricks
with open tops on the top... (hard to explain, but someone else already
described in this thread anyway.) You can see the result in the window in
this picture:
http://members.home.net/edegiuli/lego/images/2-3.jpg
If not for the half-stud offset there, my window wouldn't have been possible
in that amount of room.
Good luck!
Eric DeGiuli
http://members.home.net/edegiuli/
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"Erik Olson" <olsone@spamcop.net> wrote in message
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> This feels like a kind of dark side (painting or cutting bricks) but I've
> just crossed over to using half-stud offset techniques.
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> Are there other ways to do this without 1x2 center-stud tiles?
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> Some have used them to create half-stud setbacks or overhangs. I nudged • the
> top half of a 30-wide structure to give it symmetry with the lower half.
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> In this case I have a building whose lower symmetry requires an even • number
> of studs: doors and windows 4 wide. The upper half has panels separated by
> 1x1 bricks, with one separator roughly in the middle. It looks dorky when
> the central 1x feature is not centered! What to do... I shorten the upper
> wall to 29 wide and center it using 1x2 center-stud tiles underneath. It
> works, but at an enormous cost in 1x2 center-stud tiles.
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> The missing half-brick at the end is hidden by a L-shaped 2x2 brick corner
> on the outside, and is not noticeable from the inside.
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> Luckily the color scheme calls for gray, the most common color.
>
>
> -Erik
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