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Re: New MOC's on my websites
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Sat, 22 Jan 2000 04:22:59 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Tamyra Teed writes:
> The round table came from the smaller Hovertron set in the Explorians
> line, I bought a bunch of them just for the round "Table" in them :)
> and the "arches" in the stream are the rounded 2x3 bricks, I got a bunch
> of them in one of the Freestyle Poly bags from a couple years ago. I
> wish I could find more of those...all I can somewhat clearly remember
> was it was in the 1800 number range I think...
Thanks! I thought these were the 1x2x1.3 type arches, but curved 2x3s might be
just as hard to find :-(
> Shooting the pics for the
> Mountain turned out to be a sad day :( Only half of the mountain
> survived after the shoot.. the other half fell from 5 feet as I was
> carrying it back to my Lego room afterwards :( I still have the built
> half together and the rest in a bucket hoping to someday reconstruct and
> find all the broken pieces. That's the first and only time I cried while
> picking up and inspecting Lego... I had a couple of secret compartments
> under the river and on the side of it I didn't get the chance to photo
> that day, now I really wish I would have taken the time. One of those
> cases of live and learn... the hard way!
Oh, I'm sorry. I hate when that happens. (that you want to do something and
forget or something, and then you can't because something happened, that is)
btw, the only time I cried over lego (I think that's the only time) was when,
a year and a half ago, I realized that I would *never* have a chance to buy
the 4558 metroliner... I don't think so anymore, but I don't want it as much
either - I've sort of channeled into castle stuff right now.
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> I don't have time to do an ldraw of the staircases, too much turning and
> the like with the parts for me right now, though I will seriously try to
> get some better picks. Ones that show more details! I can kind of
> explain it possibly... I used 2x6 plates for the steps and 1x1 plates
> and 1x2 plates to hold them together, take a back corner of the first
> 2x6 put down the 1x1 plate, on the opposite back corner connect one stud
> of the 1x2 plate so it's hanging off the back 2x6 then place the next
> 2x6 plate on the 1x1 and on the back part of the 1x2, this gives it a
> little curve, you could continue all the way up a narrow tower with this
> supports might be a bit of a problem.. though playing with it might give
> some idea to fix that.
Thanks! The pic was a bit fuzzy, but with an explanation, I get it...
> For the hand rail I used more 1x2's some 1x3's and round 1x1 bricks and
> 1x round plates. I used the 1x2's on the short side with the 1x1's under
> the stairs, and the 1x3's on the side with the 1x2's under the stairs. I
> used the round plates so the rail was even.
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> I really don't think this is a new way of building the stair case.. I'm
> sure someone else has done this before. I know I've tried a few other
> ways in the past and never liked them.. I had just gotten a bunch of new
> black 2x6 plates instead of some 2x8 plates I had ordered and decided to
> try to put them to use.. and it worked out pretty well :)
I think I saw other people building staircases but they never had two supports
for every step - only one, that didn't seem stable to me.
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> Hopefully the directions above are clear... I know they seem to be to
> me.. though when someone else is trying to explain something...
> sometimes it just doesn't click.. Pictures are always better :)
Yeah, an image is worth a thousand words :-) But I got it, thanks!
-Shiri
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| The round table came from the smaller Hovertron set in the Explorians line, I bought a bunch of them just for the round "Table" in them :) and the "arches" in the stream are the rounded 2x3 bricks, I got a bunch of them in one of the Freestyle Poly (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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