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Re: Arrow Slits
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lugnet.castle
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Wed, 6 Feb 2002 15:55:51 GMT
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I tried this last night, and came up with something that looks OK. I posted
some LDraw images to Brickshelf:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=11492
The 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 fourth show a fatter
style with wedges going back from the wall, so the archer can reach a wider
angle through a thick wall without having a wider slit.
Seth.
In lugnet.castle, Magnus Lauglo writes:
> 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 plates
> which have a single stud in the middle on the top. I've been trying to
> figure out how to make cross shaped ones which are that thin, possibly using
> SNOT tecnology. There must be some way.
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> cheers
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> Magnus
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle)
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 5-Feb-02, to lugnet.castle)
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