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Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide
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lugnet.build.schleim
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Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:41:23 GMT
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In lugnet.announce, Didier Enjary wrote:
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http://photos.freelug.org/main.php/v/6studs/docs/SB/SBv1.pdf.html
(click “Télécharger document” , pdf document - 1,7Mb )
Well, almost everything is said in the document introduction.
Since I’ve discovered the community 4 years ago, I feel the need for a
compilation of building techniques. More recently, reading various
forums/articles (among them classic-castle, mechahub, and excellent posts by
Linus Bohman on classic-space) I feel again the need for such a document.
The fact is that I wrote this some months ago and I felt then the document was
not complete. The reason I release it today is that I did not work on it since
then for various reasons. So I feel I should share it now.
Such a document obviously (TLC is releasing new parts leading to new
techniques every year) can’t be exhaustive and would need numerous updates.
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Didier - congratulations on putting this together. It’s a very useful resource.
My apologies to the Brick-Wiki-Fiddlers, but I much prefer a well-written
document like this to inter-linked pages. BrickWiki may be useful as a
reference, but a well-structured straight-through read captures my interest much
more.
I like the tenth-offset model displayed there - I didn’t have access to as many
1x1 technic bricks when I did mine, so it’s good to see it updated.
I’ll try to find the graphics of my 4-stud high letters that went into the Brick
Issue for you. Only one of them was actually published - I do have a second,
thicker font.
I’ve not seen all the 2-high SNOT lettering collected together before. That is
very useful. I’ve used an ‘R’ with an offset right-leg myself, to distinguish
it from the ‘A’. I’ve noticed it used at Legoland Windsor too. I see you’ve
also included it for the letter ‘K’. Adding another 1x1 plate bottom-right to
the ‘O’ makes for a good ‘Q’ too.
To distinguish between ‘Y’ and ‘V’, you can use what you’ve listed as ‘4’ for a
‘Y’ (and optionally include a line at the bottom, like the lower case ‘y’ but
moved up).
There are some simpler alternatives for ‘L’ and ‘T’ and ‘S’, which just use two
or three vertical plates. They don’t need the regular columns of 1x1 plates and
so may be easier to fit in.
The ‘L’ is a vertical 1x2 plate with a 1x1 plate bottom-right. The ‘T’ is a
vertical 1x2 plate with a 1x1 plate top-left and top-right. The ‘S’ is a
vertical plate with a 1x1 plate bottom-left and top-right.
In this way, it is possible to do several characters using just vertical plates.
The other technique I use with this is to alternate colours of adjacent letters,
so you don’t need spaces between them. This is how I fit SNOT lettering onto
4x8 containters:
I’ve managed to fit ‘NBLTC’, ‘GWLTC’ and ‘SNOT’ (in sand green) on the sides of
containers in this way.
Finally, there is a regular method to construct these characters. On each stack
of 5 plates forming a column, make the bottom two 1x2 plates pointing away from
you, and the top three 1x1 plates. At the back, first fit a 1x1 technic brick
with the holes facing to the sides. Then, on the next whole column, fit one of
the new 1x1 bricks with studs on two sides. Keep alternating these two options
along the line of text, wherever there is a column of 5 plates. Then, using
vertical plates and tiles, you can join everything together with the SNOT pieces
in-between.
The one thing that will break up a chain of letters is a single vertical tile in
the centre of a letter. That is why I prefer my simpler version of ‘T’, and a
vertical line (with a space either side) for ‘I’.
Jason R
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