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Re: 6-foot-tall freestanding Chase logo
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Tue, 13 Feb 2007 04:14:59 GMT
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In lugnet.build.sculpture, Will Chapman wrote:
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I have had my share of gluing sculpture, and I had slight misaligmnent after
only only 6 inches of gluing. Yours looks dead-on all the way up. How did
you keep it plumb as you glued? Did you use an exterior/interior skeleton
form as a guide?
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Thanks, Will!
The sculpture has two forms of internal support.... a metal armature, and
LEGO-beams. Metal for rigidity, LEGO for accuracy.
The metal armature is mostly for keeping the model upright, and wasn’t welded as
precisely as LEGO modelling really requires... so aligning the model to the
armature proved problematic.
So, I ran LEGO beams front-to-back to keep the longer sides square and parallel
to each other. I borrowed the technique used in the Millyard project... By
turning beams sideways, gravity doesn’t fight with you and, in the case of the
Millyard, 12-foot-long unglued buildings can be lifted without any sagging! I
glued the braces also... figuring that glued ones would be even more invincible.
:)
(Millyard bracing
technique and and its
application.)
The long, horizontal wedges of the Chase logo came out fine using this
technique, but the taller side ones were more problematic. I ran these LEGO
beams front-to-back and left-to-right, criss-crossed. Even still, the model
“paralellogrammed” itself a bit, and by the time I was up to the last 6 inches,
one side was skewed by a whole stud. Fortuntately, there were enough rows left
in the model to counter this by forcing them back to a squared position with a
lot of clamps, pushing, and muttering.
Sean
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Sean Kenney
LEGO Certified Professional
http://www.seankenney.com
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 | | Re: 6-foot-tall freestanding Chase logo
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| (...) Sean, you can count my jaw with the others, down there on the floor. Truly a massive undertaking, and very well executed. Bravo! I have had my share of gluing sculpture, and I had slight misaligmnent after only only 6 inches of gluing. Yours (...) (18 years ago, 13-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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