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Retraction about offset stud on box cars and stuff
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 2 Jul 2001 17:00:06 GMT
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cmasi@cmasi.chem.tulane.(Spamless)edu
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Some time ago I said that I didn't think that adding the ribbing details--a la
the 1/5 stud offset--was worth the extra bricks that it would cost me.[1] I
guess I was extrapolating from my own tries at a 1/2 stud offset (which were
less than satisfactory). The conversation about 1/5 stud offsets the other day
got me thinking about them. When I looked at the details of the 1/5 stud offset
construction, I though that it did not look that expensive special part wise. In
fact the only special parts that have to be the right colors are the tiles. The
technic stuff can be any color. So, to make a short story long, I decided to
give it a try. I built one side of a box car, and I must to say, if you haven't
tried a 1/5 stud offset go home an do it tonight!
I went with a 1 stud long rib between two stud long panels. The subtlety of
the 1/5 stud offset is beautiful. Don't know if I'll go back and redesign my box
car and my refer, but I am certainly going to collect some 1x1's and some 1x2
tiles and finish off this box car.
Thanks everyone,
Chris
1. I am noisy, but I still think of myself as a small-(maybe medium)-timer
around here. My collection is hovering around 50K bricks, and I don't seem to
buy like some of the big-timers. Please do not mistake this for a "take pity on
me post". I know I have a lot more LEGO than a lot of people out there; I am
just adding context for what I mean by too expensive to me.
--
See some of my LEGO creations at http://cmasi.chem.tulane.edu/~lego/
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 | | Re: Retraction about offset stud on box cars and stuff
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| (...) Interestingly, I was toying with this yesterday. I was actually trying to see if I could get a similar method to work, but in a 4 or 6 wide config. Does anyone have a .dat file that shows how this method work? Jake --- Jake McKee AFOL LUGNET (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Retraction about offset stud on box cars and stuff
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| Ah, now since one stud is exactly 2 1/2 plates, a 1/5 stud offset is equivalent to half a plate. That's equivalent to the indentation on the face of a headlight brick, or the height of its base lip, or the 1x4 face of one of those 1x2-1x4 brackets. (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains)
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