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Re: A spiral staircase
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.castle, lugnet.general
Date: 
Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:53:13 GMT
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"Daan Bargerbos" <daan62@xs4all.nl> wrote in message
news:001001c51bce$0906f130$9600000a@studeerkamer...
While grading the contest entries in the CCC2, I cam across
<http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=103664 Lord Mikal's
Sweetie Pie
Bakery>.  Mikal turned the stairs in the backery one turn using what I
thought
was a 3x3 facet brick, which gave me the idea to go full circle, so to
speak.
It turns out he used wing plates, but that's beside the point.

Using his stairs as inspiration, I came up with this design for my new
castle:


<http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/savatheaggie/Misc/spiralstairs/spiralstai
rcase03.jpg

<http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/savatheaggie/Misc/spiralstairs/thumb/spir
alstaircase03.jpg_thumb.jpg>>

<http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/savatheaggie/Misc/spiralstairs/spiralstai
rcase06.jpg

<http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/savatheaggie/Misc/spiralstairs/thumb/spir
alstaircase06.jpg_thumb.jpg>>

<http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/savatheaggie/Misc/spiralstairs/spiralstai
rcase01.jpg

<http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/savatheaggie/Misc/spiralstairs/thumb/spir
alstaircase01.jpg_thumb.jpg>>

Entire gallery <http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=117770
HERE.>

--Anthony

Anthony,

great work! It's simple in it's design, not becoming bulky,
and it's not too difficult to build (considering you have the right bricks
:-).
It makes you wonder why Lego it self never came up with this idea.

It would be interesting to see what difference it makes when you use
plates instead of bricks. Making the steps double plated should
spare the minifigs some breath, i think.

Thanks for sharing!

Daan Bargerbos


Ah! Staircase, plates, wingplates!
That gave me an idea!
At last I can find a use for all my green 2x4 left wing plates :)

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Phoenix/Diverse/spiralstair_01.jpg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Phoenix/Diverse/spiralstair_02.jpg

Little too narrow for a minifig. Had to remove the hand railings :)

Thanx for the idea

Regards
Øyvind Steinnes



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  Re: A spiral staircase
 
Anthony, great work! It's simple in it's design, not becoming bulky, and it's not too difficult to build (considering you have the right bricks :-). It makes you wonder why Lego it self never came up with this idea. It would be interesting to see (...) (20 years ago, 26-Feb-05, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)

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