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This is a windmill based on one I photographed in Fuerteventura¹. I made it a
while ago and tried to photograph it then, but these pictures are a bit better.
Click the image for the Brickshelf folder.
It took me a while to come up with the building techniques that have all gone
into this model. There’s a lot going on that isn’t obvious from first glance.
Firstly, the shape. The cone has a very narrow taper; only one stud in its
whole height. I’d done a rebuild of my larger black Oxley Pepperpot mill (part
of my lake module) for
practice with cone sculptures, and wanted to do something smaller and neater.
I’d seen some examples of work by the Legoland model makers, where they build a
half-sized structure to try out the shape, then rebuild it double the size for
the final model. I decided to build this model at the correct size first, then
rebuild it using jumper plates for half-stud offsets; doubling the detail of the
shape, whilst keeping the structure the same size. If you look closely, you’ll
see it’s mostly done with half-stud stepping. And you can hardly spot that the
piece just above the door is actually a 2x2 plate on sideways.
The roof is the biggest mystery. For Sonnich, I’ve taken a close-up and an
exploded view.
Obviously it uses some very rare, if not impossible, slope colours obtained on a
tour of the Legoland Windsor model shops. But the really difficult thing to get
your head around is what corner slopes do when you fit them in SNOT directions.
I hope this clears up some of the confusion I’ve caused people.
The interior of the roof uses some complex SNOT to lower the top of the roof by
half a plate. This allows the lower line of MUCUS slopes to line up almost²
exactly with those two SNOT corner slopes that sneak around the front.
I wonder if someone would like to have a go at inverting the whole thing and
trying for a boat hull?
Let me know what you think,
Jason Railton
¹For those who haven’t heard of it, Fuerteventura is one of the Canary Islands,
Spanish sovereign territories 100km off the north-west coast of Africa.
Strangely not part of the EU, which means you can’t bring back quite as much
ron-miel as you’d like. I did manage to pick up two very rare 2718s in
mid-air though. And admittedly it’s not in the Mediterranean, but it’s the
style of the thing...
²The slopes aren’t exactly 45°. Line one up with one on it’s side and there’s a
minute difference, even if the top and bottom of the slope are level.
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| Hello! When I was browsing BrickShelf and I saw this windmill it was crying "Don Quijote!" to me. :-) That's a cool building, both in terms of building techniques and in terms of realism. It's not exactly minifig scale, though, is it? Bye Jojo (20 years ago, 9-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.schleim)
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| (...) <big snip> Jason, the windmill is really cool. When I visit a Brickshelf gallery, I usually click on the "Up" menu, just to take a sneak pick on other projects, pictures, etc. I did it on your gallery, and I saw my train station floor in (...) (20 years ago, 10-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.schleim)
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