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Re: Spanning large areas
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Sat, 8 Apr 2000 16:34:18 GMT
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Hey Brad,
You've got some great ideas there! Some of them occured to me (and probably to
other people) before, for example I'm sure many people use the "bound plates"
method. In fact, I usually use this method.
But while building my inn I discovered two more methods. The first I had
recalled from a looong time ago (don't know who I heard it from), but until
now I usually didn't have enough plates to do it. The second was suggested to
me by Tamy.
DOUBLE-PLATE
If you have enough plates this is a great method for strengthening your
floor/roof. Simply speaking, lay out (on a flat surface, like your table)
plates so that they fit the size of your roof. (For example, if the roof spans
24x32, put many plates next to each other so that they occupy an area of
24x32). Now, take more plates and put them on TOP of what you laid out
earlier. Try to make sure the plates are staggered, *not* stacked, in all
places (or at least in most). The result is a 2-plate high, pretty strong roof
(definitely stronger than just plates bound together where two different
plates met, like Brad expained below).
SUPPORT LINE
If you have a building that has 1-brick wide walls (as opposed to 2-wide),
this is fairly simple. At the height where you want to put the roof/floor
plates, lay out a line of 2xN plates all around (on top of the wall). Now
place your floor (made by one of the methods Brad described, or the "double
plate") on the supports. This might seem similar to the "corbelled roof"
method, but here's the difference: if you put a line of tiles all around the
inside of the 2xN plates, you can make the roof removable. I used this for my
2nd floor structure, there are a few pictures here (the first batch of
pictures):
http://www.geocities.com/shiri_lego/inn.html
In my case, I used the 2xN plates as a decorative color line as well as a
support.
OK, that's it! Hope that's of any use to someone...
-Shiri
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| (...) Woo! *has an epiphany* This is _exactly_ the technique I need to use on the floors of my keep, since the floors on one side are an odd number of studs back from the technic-pin divide! Thanks! *furiously gets to work recreating each of five (...) (24 years ago, 11-Apr-00, to lugnet.build.arch)
| | | Re: Spanning large areas
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| (...) I'm using a similar method for the floors of my current project (see "Idle Ramblings" in lugnet.castle for more info), except without the use of the 2-wide plates. I just stuck the tiles directly on top of the walls, and made the removable (...) (24 years ago, 11-Apr-00, to lugnet.build.arch)
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| Most stock LEGO sets use large, thin plates to create roofs and second-story floors. In some cases (like Fort Legorado, 6769), they have created super-large plates (black in this case) to do the job. What happens when you need to span a LARGER area (...) (24 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.build.arch)
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