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Re: help/tip for building strange forms
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 29 Dec 2004 06:49:36 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Øyvind Steinnes wrote:
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I have seen some pictures on Brickshelf of buildings with strange formed
roofs or strange shaped walls like this:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1040008
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1040010
And I want to build a model of a building from my hometown that also have a
strange formed roof.
You can see some picture of it here:
http://gallery.wert.no/album76/2004_06_30_0022
Here you see only the roof. The building was earlier containing a cinema and
the walls was round and made of concret.
The new building will use the old roof, and the walls will have the same
form but this time it will be made of mostly glass and steel in the same
style as the building you see in the background on that picture.
How do I start with this? I can see diffrent building technincs, one is
using normal bricks like the sydney operahouse in one of the links above,
the other one is using plates. But this roof is more shaped like four of the
roofs on the Sydney operahouse pointed in diffrent directions.
Is there any program that I can feed in the shapes and make a building
instructions?
Or is the best way to just start with the groundfloor and build it up and
find the shape as I build?
Regards
Øyvind Steinnes
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=Phoenix
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That is some retro-licious roof you got there. The only program I know of for
things like this is Erik Olson’s
spheroid generator. You could
probably get some decent shapes by playing with that and plaster them together
in LDraw.
I hope you have a LOT
of small plates in the same color for this
project! Unless you want to make a low, flat ceiling in the building, copious
amounts of plates will be your best bet. Is this going to be a “town”-themed
building, or possibly a moonbase module? Either
way, it will be a fine day for retro. Hooray!
I’m thinking of doing something similar. At my local LEGO Outlet Store, I bought
a couple bags of blue 2x2 corner plates,
and now I have hundreds! But how should I use them...?
Kevin
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| "Kevin Heckel" <saltczar@msn.com> wrote in message news:I9H1Mo.2AM@lugnet.com... (...) have a (...) and (...) Well, I just sat me down and started building from the ground up, only using the picture above as a guideline. But I'm not too happy with (...) (20 years ago, 30-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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| I have seen some pictures on Brickshelf of buildings with strange formed roofs or strange shaped walls like this: (URL) I want to build a model of a building from my hometown that also have a strange formed roof. You can see some picture of it here: (...) (20 years ago, 28-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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