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Re: Newly revised and updated web page
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Wed, 9 Aug 2000 01:25:46 GMT
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"Toll, Kim" <kim.toll@intel.com> writes:
> 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!
As you should be! I *think* I still remember what sines and cosines are. :-)
> 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.
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> 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.
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 something is done.
--
Don't design inefficiency in - it'll happen in the implementation.
Chris Gray cg@ami-cg.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA
http://www.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA/cg/
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| (...) 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, (...) (24 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.build)
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