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Spiral Staircase in 8x8 cylinder (was: Re: New House)
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lugnet.castle
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Thu, 5 Apr 2001 13:32:43 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, David Eaton writes:
> Although, I wonder how well a 2x3 step would work, if it curved around 1
> stud back instead of the center stud... that would mean you wouldn't HAVE to
> use 1x1 tiles at least, and it would still be able to fit in the 8x8 area...
> Hmm....
Played a little last night-- I found the method that seemed to work best was
having each step made from:
2x3 plate
1x2 tile w/ center stud
2x2 tile
The very bottommost step needed a 2x2 plate as the base, though, so that it
wouldn't run into the curved lip of the 1/4 cylinder thinwall at the base.
From there on up, the steps stack pretty nicely, and come around about 270
degrees. It takes a little bit of finessing the pieces, but the top step can
be placed such that it meets up with a landing at the top of the 1/4
thinwalls. The edges of the openings of the thinwalls leave a space to build
up 1-stud wide walls, which also can fit doors pretty well.
The only problem I really forsee is with topping off an accessable tower,
since (in order for minifigs to have 'headroom' when 'climbing' the stairs)
the top must be 3/4 empty, which leaves little room to build structures...
It'd definitely need a 'top tower' which extended 1 stud (or more) from the
edge of the thinwalls... so essentially a 10x10 tower top.
However, for inaccessible tower toppers, this method would work pretty well
functionally and looks-wise, although probably not QUITE as well when
dealing with slanted roofs as seen on the mansion. 'Course now I'm
interested to try interspersing the 1/4 thinwalls with 1x2 studs to get some
extra volume from those towers... Hmm....
DaveE
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