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Re: The Unofficial LEGO Advanced Building Techniques Guide
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lugnet.build.schleim
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Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:48:28 GMT
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In lugnet.build.schleim, Jason J Railton wrote:
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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 )
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SNIP
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Didier - congratulations on putting this together. It’s a very useful
resource.
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Thank you Jason,
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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.
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It seem LL Designers are really into making letterings those days - I’ve seen a
lot on BS pictures from LLCA.
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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’.
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The construction of these characters is really difficult and your regular method
is now of interest as the 1x1 brick with two studs is more widely available. I’d
like to find another way to fix the single vertical line chain breaker problem
because your L,S and T present large bars. I also like your alternate colors
trick because it follows the spirit of more details in less space by cheating
the eye.
Thanks,
Didier
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