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Hi all, I'm in the process of building a dock-side town and am wondering how to go about it. You see, I guess one would normally like to have docks which are 3-4 bricks high, but does that mean the entire village must be elevated by this much. How (...) (22 years ago, 21-Sep-02, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.castle)
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(...) Well, to handle the docks problem, you could build the dock 3-4 bricks high, then put a retaining wall on the village side so the water won't flood. Then you can put ladders up to the dock. It works because you only need about a 2 brick high (...) (22 years ago, 21-Sep-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) I wish I could easily point to some pictures of my contribution to the BrickFest castle town. I made a 6 brick high raised dock section, which has ramps down to the 1 brick high streets in the rest of the town. I put one shop at the street (...) (22 years ago, 22-Sep-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) A combination of raised baseplates and rock pieces (BURPs etc) works for me, though this makes it around 6 high. Michael Dallaston (22 years ago, 22-Sep-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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Frank, that was a truly awesome MOC of yours, and I thought it was perhaps the best part of the entire town. It would be great to see pics up some tme, when you have modified it. cheers Magnus (22 years ago, 22-Sep-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Ahoy, In Port Brique, the sea wall is 12-13 bricks high, with the dock located about half way up at 6 bricks high. The streets are created with 8x16 (or bigger) bricks located on top of the sea wall. The visible parts are red outlined in (...) (22 years ago, 22-Sep-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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Hey I just got an idea, I might use it myself someday. I read all these results and they say use burps or buy lots of bulk tubs to get it up 6+ bricks high. This is my idea, get enough of the right color bricks for the visible parts, and then DUPLO (...) (22 years ago, 22-Sep-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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Hello! (...) In my opinion the land should be higher leveled than the docks. A port usually is founded at a place like a bay where the land is high and getting flatter towards the sea. This means you need bricks to elevate the land. Hrm... when I (...) (22 years ago, 23-Sep-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Mmmmmm. Sea walls and docks and raising town baseplates are all good uses for decently proportioned clones (ie MB). They're cheap, essentially unseen, and available in adequate colours for these purposes in truckload quantities. Port Block's (...) (22 years ago, 23-Sep-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Duplos would be a purer solution, and I always find them at garage sales and flea markets (unlike Legos, which are rare indeed). Hmm, good use for them when the 14 month old outgrows them. George (22 years ago, 23-Sep-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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Hey Stephen, I haven't built a lot of docks, only one off the back of a castle. I used the 1x1 round pieces for the pilings and then a plate for the dock, so it was one and one third bricks high. I have a gangplank going up onto the ship. Hope this (...) (22 years ago, 23-Sep-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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Hi everyone, Thanks all for offering so many useful suggestions. I have been very much influenced by places like Port Block and Port Brique. I'll be sure to post pictures as soon as I can. Just a little background, I'm an Astronomer with great (...) (22 years ago, 27-Sep-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) A very cool concept. (...) Sand-green domes perhaps? (...) Standing by... Cheers Richie Dulin (22 years ago, 28-Sep-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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