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Re: doh!
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Tue, 9 May 2000 19:12:19 GMT
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In article <FuAtvD.Cqw@lugnet.com>, Lorbaat <eric@nospam.thirteen.net> wrote:
> line too many of them up, but I have had little problem with them as a
> structral element. I used some of them here:
While I don't woosh castles, I do manipulate them-- for example, my current
version has levels that one can lift off one another.
I find that when one goes with a design like that, it looks a lot better,
much, much better. But some fool (usually me) is going to make lots of
little pieces at some point.
A design like that yields effectively large sections:
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Where the only places the sections can be locked together are on the
tops and bottoms.
I really like the looks of it, and it yields a quite modular design,
but I can't make it stay together.
Which brings me to yet another question:
What's the trick to relatively durable buildings built in that style?
(sorry, lotsa meta-castle design questions, little in the way of
photographs. I'll try to fix that soon...)
-JDF
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J.D. Forinash ,-.
foxtrot@cc.gatech.edu ( <
The more you learn, the better your luck gets. `-'
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| (...) I've found the best way is layers of bricks or plates on top and bottom strengthen it enough. This is one of the reasons I don't really use it; it gobbles up plates, and bricks make it too tall... :) (I had forgotten about this use of those (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| J.D. Forinash <foxtrot@cc.gatech.edu> wrote in message news:8f9nuj$72q$1@cc...ome.com... (...) current (...) I also have built castles with the "lift off" design. I prefer them to ones that hinge (although some of the hinged creations I have seen (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) ??? I often throw them into the middle of walls, and they seem to work fine. I try to make sure they are well braced from the top and the bottom, and not line too many of them up, but I have had little problem with them as a structral element. (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.castle)
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