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Re: New WTC design prototype
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Sun, 19 Jan 2003 21:58:07 GMT
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In lugnet.build, John Spencer Rezkalla writes:
> Downright awesome. When I looked at the first picture I thought to
> myself how in the h$%^ did he get the facade to replicate the horizontal
LOL! :) Glad it made an impression. :)
> Now that I think of it, I had a similar design concept when I was
> designing my towers [snip] Nevertheless, your design proves this type
> of concept looks great.
Thanks! Yeah, leave it to me to try some crazy design that no one else
would dare. :) The genesis for this idea was to cram more vertical beams
into the model than my previous design (which only had 13 per side). This
will have 26 per side.
(The real WTC had 64 beams per side... each a meter wide and a meter apart.
That would be about the size of an XL grey baseplate... which would put it
at 8.5 feet tall! It would be perfect microfig scale, where a person is 1
stud wide and 2 studs tall. But it would cost about $2500 per tower. I
know I'm a loon, but even that's a bit much for me.) :)
> Is there any way to scale down the design some in size to make it more
> financially viable? The corner bevels are probably the visual constraint
> in doing so.
Well, the number of vertical beams is what cranks up the cost. And the
corner bevels actually have to be that size, since the walls are 3 studs
thick... ideally, I'd make the corners only 1-stud wide, but it just won't
fit. As it is, there will be a bit of a gap around the corners, but I guess
it will suffice. The width of the tower is sort of random... it's actually
75% of the size of my old model. (24 studs, not 32.) My last design was so
big that I didn't have any place to build it... it was 9 XL grey baseplates,
in a square. This one is just 4.
Those darn corners were actually a real design problem. I was originally
trying to attach the walls together at their corners, as well as attach the
corner bevels, but it wasn't working.. there just wasn't enough room. So
this design has each wall of the tower sepearate from the others, each
attached to one corner bevel. The walls will be attached via a mechanism in
the center of the tower (somehow... haven't gotten that far yet.) :)
Sean
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| (...) Okay, I'm a bigger loon, so I thought it might be do-able, but unless you can get tiles a lot cheaper than I can, or I've done the calculation incorrectly, it'd be $2500 *per side*, and that's just the tiles. Not as bad as my minifig-scale (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.build)
| | | Re: New WTC design prototype
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| (...) Yea, almost as crazy as me settling on a design that used 2500 light gray tile grilles - when Bricklink was only showing about 1500 total available for sale! (22 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) myself how in the h$%^ did he get the facade to replicate the horizontal segmented appearance of the real building's aluminum cladding! Then I saw the above shot ;-) (...) Now that I think of it, I had a similar design concept when I was (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jan-03, to lugnet.build)
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