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Re: Info o GMLTC Style Honeycomb structure
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 15 Dec 2000 16:49:24 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Steve Chapple writes:
> In lugnet.trains, John Neal writes:
> > Kim Toll wrote:
> > > I'm interested in building up a bit of a Lego landscape similar
> > > to the GMLTC modules.
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> > ...the pattern we at the GMLTC have perfected. Check it out here:
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=1734
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> I too am interested in the "honeycomb" pattern details. No sense
> "re-inventing the wheel". The link seems to only provide a hint
> though - it looks like one step in an instruction book of dozens?
Nope, it's all you need (for pictoral reference, anyway). From left to right:
2x2 bricks, in towers. Height on these will vary depending on how
high/stable you want your structure. IIRC, GMLTC uses 5 high towers, Mike
P. uses 6 high. Both recommend not going much higher, or it gets unstable.
2x4 bricks, bracing and interlocking the towers. This would be done between
tower sections (every 5 or 6 bricks high), and also just below the top layer.
2x4 bricks, as the building surface.
I've been thinking about the possibilities of doing 5 or 6 high modules, to
let us work some terrain variation in. The real hitch with that is you
start needing to store them, and you start needing to worry about
transporting them.
James
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| (...) Pretty much it. The green bricks are your outside wall, and you tie into the wall every 5-6 bricks high. That is why you need the rim of 1x4s, to avoid "disturbing" the alternating binding appearance from the outside. It's a very clean and (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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