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Re: Permanent Standard - A Medieval Town
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lugnet.castle
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Sun, 3 Nov 2002 09:45:26 GMT
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> > Also note that the proposed block sizes are convenient for buildings, but
> > may be inconvenient for putting them together. Most Lego baseplates are
> > multiples of 16 (sometimes 8) studs on each side. Tan 8x## baseplates are
> > rare (I think), and green 8x## not terribly common. I would not expect
> > that people could bring together a number of buildings on 16x16 baseplates
> > and have enough 8x## baseplates to just drop in roads. A better solution
> > might be to plan buildings to live on a 16x32 or 32x32 (or whatever)
> > baseplate, with at least four studs reserved on one side for (one half of
> > a) road. This raises the problems of corner shops, of course. . .
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> There is a solution to this problem. If the roads are built independantly
> from a baseplate and made of two layers of plates on top of each other to
> form a grid, buildings on baseplates can be directly placed in their own
> spots. This would allow easy removal of a shop or house in order to open it
> up, rotate it, or move it to a different location. I will try to post an
> picture of this soon.
I have posted pictures of my road ideas on brickshelf:
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/BenjaminE/TownStandardIdeas/streetideas2.jpg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/BenjaminE/TownStandardIdeas/streetideas3.jpg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/BenjaminE/TownStandardIdeas/streetideas4.jpg
Ben
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| (...) As I envisioned it - these buildings would be like Daniel Siskund's sets - a larger scale than most Lego castle sets - so many details can be added. (...) I believe that some of this is historically accurate - depending on the town and time (...) (22 years ago, 3-Nov-02, to lugnet.castle)
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