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Very attractive design! My favourite way of doing arrow slits is just doing straight vertical slits half a brick wide. This makes for a much harder window for an enemy to shoot through. You can do pairs of them easily by using a few of the 1 by 2 (...) (23 years ago, 5-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) This is one of my favorite techniques as well. (...) Magnus: If you take a look at the window here: (URL) can see how it was built by using 1xn plates. (Look especially toward the top.) A similar technique using plates and/or tiles could be (...) (23 years ago, 5-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle)
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Magnus Lauglo" <thunder_road@hotmail.com> (...) Thanks Magnus. :-) (...) slits (...) shoot (...) plates (...) using (...) Thin ones would be great, but as soon as I saw the rounded ends, I was hooked. :-) If you (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Yeah those ends are real sweet. (...) I'll keep that in mind, but I'm away from my lego now, and still digicam illiterate, so I won't be able to get anything up anytime soon. cheers Magnus (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle)
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Nice window on the church! (...) I understand what you mena (I think). The only problem is that the horisontal part of the slit would still be one brick wide. I've been thinking about how to do cross arrow slits that would be around half a brick (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle)
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I tried this last night, and came up with something that looks OK. I posted some LDraw images to Brickshelf: (URL) second and third images are color-coded; the dark grey parts are 1x2 plates with 1 stud and the blue is a 1x1 tile. The third and (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle)
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An elegant solution -- no thick walls or SNOT required, just tiles and center-stud tiles. Plus, height is exactly 4 bricks. If a thick wall is used, more tiles and c-s tiles could be used to make unpaired slits. --Muze (...) plates (...) (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle)
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