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I've heard many builders incorporate the SNOT method into their creations. As far as I can tell this means that the Lego piece is turned on its side or upside down. Am I missing something because this does not seem impressive to me at all. What's (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Well in using a piece on its side, or upside down, one can achieve new geometry, new shapes, new orientations etc. I guess the possibilities are endless. Too bad I have little or no experience using SNOT-techniques. -Bryan (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) It's not a big deal at all for Technic builders, who are very familiar with building on all aspects and directions. However, for Town and Train builders, this is a major departure from the way Trains have normally been done. Building on side (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Oh really? What about the plane you did for last year's town comp with the upside down windows? (sure nobody else could see it, but the SNOT was there). I'm sure it'll simple happen when the need arises (wait till you try to build more stuff (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) SNOT techniques in non-Technic building are generally quite different from Technic construction because the goals are different. The goal in non-Technic design is to fill in gaps as well as possible while adding lots of detail, and while using (...) (23 years ago, 6-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Here's a pretty good page about SNOT by Holger Matthews (HoMo): (URL) in German but Babelfish can make understandable English out of it (at least to me who knows a tad of German): (URL) (23 years ago, 7-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) <snip> Uh, that's "HoMa". He might not appreciate "HoMo", if you know what I mean. ;-) TJ (23 years ago, 7-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Uhm, sorry HoMa was a quick post during lunch .) /Tobbe (URL) (23 years ago, 7-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic)
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