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Re: Info o GMLTC Style Honeycomb structure
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Fri, 15 Dec 2000 22:59:23 GMT
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My bad. The detail pictures are not in the standards page.
http://www.sirius.com/~latha/lego/modules/standards.htm
Choose lattice.jpg to see the lattice structure up close and overview to see
several modules in progress. I thought I had better pictures than these,
but my memory fails me now. I had to take a 4 month hiatus from Lego for
the nut harvest and am just getting back into the swing.
Mike
Mike Poindexter <lego@poindexter.cc> wrote in message
news:G5Msq8.2KF@lugnet.com...
> I haven't touched the page I made up in a while, but here it is:
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> http://www.sirius.com/~latha/lego/modules/standards.htm
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> Mike Poindexter
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> PS: Target is carrying the 3033 blue tub here. Perhaps we will see cheap
> prices in January. Of course, they will never have the volume to make • some
> seriously large layouts, but they can cut the cost of a module down.
>
> Kim Toll <kim.toll@intel.com> wrote in message • news:G5LKE3.3Iz@lugnet.com...
> > I'm working on a module for the PNLTC display at GATS next year (in Feb) • and
> > I'm interested in building up a bit of a Lego landscape similar to the • GMLTC
> > modules.
> >
> > Now don't go thinking I've totaly abandoned plywood. I'm still a
> > dyed-in-the-wool plywooder. I don't have enough bricks for anything • else
> :)
> > But, I'd like to build up a 5 to 6 brick layer that I can use for some
> > relief in the terrain. And of course, I'd like to do it with the fewest
> > number of bricks possible.
> >
> > I seem to recal quite a discussion here a year or two ago between Mike
> > Poindexter and some of the GMLTC John's (1, 2 or 3, maybe all of them :)
> > about the honeycomb structure they used in their modules. And I think • there
> > was a web site where some of this was documented. Could someone point • me
> to
> > this, or alternately, attempt to describe, in text, the method they use? • I
> > have several structures I've been playing with but it seems silly not to
> > look at what others have used successfully.
> >
> > I'm open to any other suggestions people have. My goals are that it has • to
> > be sturdy, and it needs to use as few bricks as possible. These two • goals
> > are in tension, but I'm sure I can come up with a happy compromise.
> >
> > Now, before any of you go flogging me for not checking the mail • archives,
> > let me tell you that I tried. But mail search has been disabled :(
> > (Apparently this is causing (or contributing) to some instability in the
> > servers, so Todd has shut it donw for a while.) So that wasn't much • help.
> > And slogging through thousands of posts by hand seemed daunting.
> >
> > Thus, my message. Besides, more than one of us may learn something this • way!
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help on this.
> >
> > Kim
> > PNLTC member
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>
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| (...) Thanks Mike, You have a couple of daunting looking pictures you have up there :\ So how many 3033 tubs does it take you to do, say a 40"x60" module? Just the 22 brick high build-up, not all the structures & scenery on top of it? I'm trying to (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| I haven't touched the page I made up in a while, but here it is: (URL) Poindexter PS: Target is carrying the 3033 blue tub here. Perhaps we will see cheap prices in January. Of course, they will never have the volume to make some seriously large (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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