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As I continue to plan how I will build my next castle, as my parts are currently
used in other things, I began to think of the Castle’s Keep.
Now, every castle has got to have a place to eat, and of course my next castle
being a royal castle, my thoughts turned to a wine cellar.
So I did some searching around Lugnet and Bricklink, and came up empty handed.
All of the wine storage areas I found were just large holes for barrels. But I
wanted a wine rack. I mean, this is a royal castle! They need the really good
stuff, the stuff that only comes in small bottles and in very limited
quantities.
So I went about making my own wine rack. Here’s what I came up with:
And here’s how I did it:
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/savatheaggie/Misc/winerack/winerack2.jpg
Some notes:
The wine rack itself does not hang inside it’s nook. Instead, two 1x2 slopes
and two 1x2 inverted slopes pin it in place. Otherwise it just slides into
place from above and sits nice and snug.
I wanted to do the rack in brown, but I don’t have any free, so I went for the
more ‘natural’ wood look with my spare tan which up till now has gone relatively
unused (a problem I am taking care of :)
I had thought of using nothing but 1x1s to create the construction, which would
give me a larger capacity for wine bottles, but I wanted that cross beam look
that real wine racks have. I could have used crossed plates, but once the wine
bottles were in you wouldn’t be able to tell what you used anyway.
I suppose there’s another way to make the cross beams smaller using a different
form of SNOT, but this was the easiest and least parts intensive for me.
So, be brutally honest, whaddya think?
--Anthony
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| (...) Hey that is a REALLY neat idea. Too bad my secret 3CS building is already packed for its trip to Portland or I'd be stealing that idea as we speak. But if I stole it, I'd probably do it differently. Instead of using bricks stud on, I think I'd (...) (21 years ago, 11-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| Anthony, Very cool idea. I've got an idea to follow up my interpretation of Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven with with other Poe tales every Hallowen (The Pit and the Pendulum seems like it would be very cool. I need some Spanish soldiers for that.) (...) (21 years ago, 11-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| (...) In looking at the "Parable of the harsh master" that BPS just posted I saw this pic (URL) wondering if that is of any use. As in I wonder if tiles will fit between those diagonally turned 1x1s and be held tightly enough to work out... the gaps (...) (21 years ago, 8-Mar-04, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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