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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 17:01:53 GMT
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johnneal@uswest.*Spamless*net
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James Brown wrote:
> 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.
> >
> > > ...the pattern we at the GMLTC have perfected. Check it out here:
> > > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=1734
> >
> > 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?
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> Nope, it's all you need (for pictoral reference, anyway). From left to right:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 2x4 bricks, as the building surface.
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 elegant design which maximizes common bricks AND is nice and strong.
-John (FU set to org)
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> 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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| (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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