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RE: Newly revised and updated web page
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> From: Chris Gray [mailto:cg@ami-cg.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA]
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> "Kim Toll" <kim.toll@intel.com> writes:
> > http://www.easystreet.com/~kjmrr/
> > - Transamerica Pyramid: I'm really pleased with this one.
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> Very nice! Thinking through everything about how to do that must have
> taken quite a few evenings of effort! I'm not sure I'd have
> the determination.
Well, I've been working on it seriously for just over two months. I'd
wanted to do the Transamerica building for quite some time and had been
trying to think of how to do it. I had originally considered a more
straight forward studs-up design, similar to my other skyscrapers, but the
jaggy edge that would have resulted in just didn't satisfy me.
I also considered using those 3 high slopes but I don't have that many 3
tall corner slopes in any color, much less white, which Is what I wanted to
use. Besides, those slopes really aren't the right angle for this building
anyway. they aren't steep enough. Turns out the slope I wanted is about 8
bricks height to one stud.
I eventually came up on making four smooth walls and tilting them in. This
would give me a much smoother look on the side of the building but it would
still have the 1 brick wide stair steps up the edges. That's when thought
of going with the SNOT design. That gives me steps at the edge of only 1/3
of a brick height (2/5 of a brick width).
This also allowed me to get the windows very close together by putting a
single white plate between them.
After I decided on this I spent a week or two selecting an attachment method
for the walls and then calculating the correct positions for the clips.
This was challenging. But I was actually able to calculate it all on paper
so that when I built a mock-up of the center support and two sides, all the
clips worked out just as I had planed. I was unduly pleased with this!
The other design issue that I spent significant time on was how to get the
double angles on the white trusses that occupy the first 5 stories of the
building. I'm quite pleased with how these came out too.
Anyway, the actual building of the tower started in late June and didn't end
until last week, when I finished the final side. All in all, it is the most
technological (Legological?) project I've tackled.
> > - Tudor Train Station: I built this model last November, • but now its finally
> > made it to my web site.
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> I like it! Can you show a close-up of how you did the chandeliers?
I don't know if you looked at the page of additional pictures I have of the
train station or not (at the bottom of the train station page, there is a
link to 'More Train Station Pictures'. The first picture on that page
actually has a pretty good view of the chandeliers.
They were made by stacking seven 1x4 plates together by attaching them
together with one stud on the end to make a spiral kind of shape. Then, on
the opposite end I used 1x1 round bricks and a trans yellow cone (actually
trans neon yellow I believe). The two outer chandeliers are made the same
way but with 1x3 plates so they're a bit smaller.
To hang them, I used a standard headlight brick (a 1x1 with one stud on the
side), but I offset that with a 1x2 single stud offset plate so that the
chain would hang from the middle. It makes the chandeliers hang more evenly
that way.
If you want more close up pics, let me know and I'd be happy to make some.
> They loaded quickly for me (cable modem), and looked fine in my Linux
> Netscape with JavaScript disabled.
Thanks, that's good to hear. I'm a little worried about people with slower
modem connections though. But so far, nobody's complained. Please let me
know what you think.
Kim
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| (...) As you should be! I *think* I still remember what sines and cosines are. :-) (...) OK, thanks. That clears it up a lot. I had seen the other pictures, but I guess I'm not experienced enough in Lego (only about 4 years now) to quickly "see" how (...) (24 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.build)
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