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Re: The Ubiquitous Half Stud Width Offset (and how to use it)
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lugnet.space, lugnet.build
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lugnet.build
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Mon, 26 Mar 2001 20:17:35 GMT
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While one cannot pick "the one and only piece I want (in infinite quantity)
on a desert island", it is possible to pick the single piece that would
*most* cripple advanced construction possibilities if it were missing.
This piece, the "switcher" as TLC design folk call it, is it. No doubt about
it in my mind. I always have a gallon zip half full of them and always am
trying to buy more.
FUT build
In lugnet.space, Gary Istok writes:
> Great job Paul, a picture does say 1000 words. I posted an article
> about this process about 6 months ago (with the pictures). IMHO this is
> one of the most versatile uses possible for LEGO. I first noticed this
> use about 15 years ago when I saw a LEGO display building with a low
> sloped black roof. There were no low sloped peaks at that time, so the
> LEGO builder put a row of the 1x2 black tiles (with central stud) on top
> of the top lever of the sloped roof. Above that there were 1x8 black
> tiles put along the middle ridge. This was their way of getting around
> the problem of not having low sloped peaks in black.
>
> Gary Istok
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> Paul Hartzog wrote:
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> > The Ubiquitous Half Stud Width Offset (and how to use it)
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> > A new article added to the Aesthetics section
> > of
> >
> > Et in Arcadia Lego
> >
> > @
> >
> > http://63.230.24.25/lego
> >
> > LMKWYT
> >
> > thx much
> > -paul
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