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Constructing Round 6-Wide?
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lugnet.build
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Wed, 17 Jul 2002 16:14:47 GMT
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Has anyone ever done any construction of cylindrical objects with a diameter
of 6 studs? Lego produces a number of parts with diameters 2, 4, and 8, but
AFAIK, the only part at diameter 6 is
webbed rader dish.
I remember (and I'll go look, but haven't yet) a discussion about
constructing cylinders by stacking 1x2 bricks with the 2x2/1x4 hinge bricks,
but I'm hoping for a smoother-surface construction.
So far, my choices seem to be:
Make an octagonal cylinder from low-slope bricks.
Make an octagonal cylinder from octagonal plates (like
half-octagon plate 3 x 6 and
octagon plate 6 x 6).
Stack a *bunch* of webbed rader dish.
Use a lot of arches, like arch 1 x 6 x 2, to make a
round-cornered rectangular prism.
Similarly, use bricks and/or plates that have 1/4 turns of radius 2 (like
macaroni bricks and corner plate 3 x 3) to make a
round-cornered rectangular prism.
Another problem is quantity: I'll be constructing a cylinder about 120 studs
long, so the quantity of rare parts required is an issue.
Anyone have any other thoughts or ideas?
Steve
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