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Re: Octagonal building technique: help!
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Sat, 12 Mar 2005 20:22:08 GMT
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In lugnet.build, Ram Sreerangam wrote:
I am in the process of creating a building that has eight sides. Four of them
were easy to create as they are either perpendicular or parallel to each other.

The problem is with the other four sides. I tried using a "Brick 3x3 Facet" to
go across the adjacent walls, but the problem is that I need to build windows
and stuff on top of the facet. The studs across the facet are not amenable to
that!

Any ideas?

My thought was to perhaps create four more sides and kind of anchor (well hold
them) them to the base using bricks on the sides. Kind of like corralling.

TIA,
Ram

unfortunently the faset brick isin't very usefull past using it with another
faset part. the easyist way to acheive the octagonal look is to use hinge bricks
or plates and angle the walls.

here's the parts that will be most usefull:

<http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=3830c01>
<http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=2429c01>

with luck you will be able to secure 4 of the 8 sides to a baseplate as well.

ondrew
p.s. don't forget bigger is better/easier.



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(...) On that note, there's a few particular sizes of 45 degrees that work well enough within Lego tolerances. Like, a 45 degree wall of length 7, 17, 24, 33, or 41 will all join up with the hinges Ondrew mentioned, and be pretty darn close to (...) (20 years ago, 12-Mar-05, to lugnet.build)

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I am in the process of creating a building that has eight sides. Four of them were easy to create as they are either perpendicular or parallel to each other. The problem is with the other four sides. I tried using a "Brick 3x3 Facet" to go across (...) (20 years ago, 12-Mar-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general)

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