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Re: Village, etc
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lugnet.castle
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Sun, 9 Jun 2002 12:51:39 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Kishin Wadhwani writes:
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> > Hey, thanks for the referral Leah! My Corincia is a bit small to be considered
> > a village I'd think, but hey, whatever works :). I just wanted to point out
> > directly the best lego town that I know of. It may not be inclusive or
> > historically accurate, but it's certainly my favorite.
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> > Dave Eaton's lego village :
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> > http://www.suave.net/~dave/newtown.cgi
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> > --Anthony
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> > http://www.ozbricks.com/ikros
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> I know this Question may sound stupid but how do you slant the plates to use
> as roofs?I might start building a village of my own soon.
There are many ways.
Here:
http://www.suave.net/~dave/images/newtown/alltown_ne.jpg
if you look at the house near the bottom-left hand corner, you can see that
the two 2-plate thick roof plates are linked at the top with some pairs of
1X2 plate hinges. Then, just before the roof ends, the lower plates stop.
I would suppose they end at a bump that keeps the roof up. If you don't
understand, just look at the house I pointed out.
You can also use car-roof hinges, 1X2brick hinges, peg hinges... and many
other ways.
BTW, one of Lego's idea books has an intersting scene:
http://library.brickshelf.com/scans/0000/0260-1990/0260-36.html
and the next page.
John Kruer
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| (...) Although it does appear that hinges were used, the sad truth is they weren't! Back when my village was created, tan pieces were still pretty rare, so I looked into using plates rather than slopes to save on Tan (since tan plates were getting (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jun-02, to lugnet.castle)
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