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Re: No Lego Window System
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:48:31 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Frank Filz wrote:
   Of course my house will never be buildable in minifig scale unless LEGO comes out with a special part. The arched window in this picture:

http://www.maj.com/gallery/ffilz/NewHome/4061222-1.jpg

Would be impossible to render. It might not even be easy to render in a larger scale.

Well, it wouldn’t quite fit scale-wise, but I know I’ve seen the 1x6x2 arches in conjunction with the little hinge arms plugged in underneath the arch:


That makes for a nice little archy-window, although it doesn’t actually have glass. And of course you’d really need a 6-wide “perfectly round” arch as well. I bet you could come pretty close... Especially if you used a similar technique with some of the 1x5x4 arches. Hmm...

DaveE



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  Re: No Lego Window System
 
(...) Yea, that would get the arch, the trouble is how tight into the peak the arch fits. For a larger scale, the 1x5x4 half arches might work to get something close. At a larger scale, one could do the arch using inverse slopes or even just (...) (20 years ago, 14-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)

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(...) Of course my house will never be buildable in minifig scale unless LEGO comes out with a special part. The arched window in this picture: (URL) be impossible to render. It might not even be easy to render in a larger scale. Of course I'd also (...) (20 years ago, 14-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)

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