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Re: New Parts Drawings - Plates, Slope, Track Pieces
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Fri, 4 Feb 2005 17:51:39 GMT
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In lugnet.parts.custom, Nelson Yrizarry wrote:
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Your drawings are excellent! What detail!
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Thanks, I like to do a proper job :-)
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All of your ideas (and that of the earlier, similar posts) are good. But, I’m
not sure what this could be used for, although ANY 4x4 round plate would be
welcomed, with or without the axle holes.
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Up to now, there is no plate to go with the 4x4 round brick and the half
cylinders. This means that unless your round bricks have exactly 4 bricks
between them, you can’t support them at the side with a technic beam or similar,
by putting pegs in the holes and a beam up the side.
With my 1:20 scale Apache helicopter, I used 4x4 round bricks for the rocket
launchers. I wanted to put two 4x4 round bricks 7 plates apart, in order to
support them with pegs on a pair of 1x5 technic plates with holes in the ends,
which attach the rocket launchers to the ‘wings’. Since there is no 4x4 round
plate I’ve had to use 2x2 round plates for now.
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I’d encourage you to share them
too. I propose these as parts for TLC to make. Please indicate which of
them you would find useful.
Another time, I might draw a few of the parts that I’ve made from existing
ones - the tried and tested selection!
PLMKWYT
Mark
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This is a great topic/post! Spotlighted!
How about a regular 2x2 brick, with 2 studs on each side? It would be similar
to this, but larger:
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Hmmm...
How about a 1x1 brick with studs on two adjacent sides instead? You could use 4
of those to make your 2x2, but the source brick would be smaller and more
versatile. Even better if the other 2 sides had a shallow technic peg hole in
them, which could also accept a stud from another similar brick. Then you could
make 2x3, 3x3, 2x4, 4x4,... any size you like!
I like the 1x1 with studs on opposite sides, since it is the complement of the
1x1 technic beam. I will use both to support letters in models, like this:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=742620 Using them alternately,
with the vertical tiles of the letters pointing alternately left and right.
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Also, (and I don’t mean to hijack this thread), but why is TLC able to
produce new molds for parts each year, but cannot seem to fix or replace
their older molds, such as that for the cypress tree, or the 1x1 ‘window’
brick? I’d prefer the availability of previously-made parts, rather than new
ones.
With an open can of worms in hand, :)
Nelson
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Yes, those little windows would be useful, and also their taller cousins. I
would use them in steam locos.
A mould does a certain number of parts, but is very expensive to make.
Therefore if one was made for the 1x1 windows, you’d have to run off a huge
number of them, requiring them to be used in a set. I think a mould makes about
12 2x4s at a time, so probably 20 window frames. Then it does at least 100,000
cycles. The trouble with the windows is that the panes are separate and have to
be glued in. That’s labour intensive, making them even more expensive to
produce. Would you be prepared to pay $1 each for them and buy by the thousand?
:-)
Mark
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