Lego Art & Design Principles 101

darth yoda wrote:
What are you talking about?

There was some off topic post about an AT-TE above PD's post. The guy who posted it, or a moderator, must have deleted it.

Uhhh.. I haven't even posted in this topic yet...

I didn't say it was you! It was someone with the default avatar.

You said PD, you meant DP. Problem solved!

'oh: Man! Why didn't I just say Darth Pineapple...

Curse my craving for initials!

LOL

First we had DP and Dy mixed up alot, now we have DP and PD!

Everyone's just a name stealer, TB.

Hehe...

I think all the capital "D"s are too much for some people!

Thunder-blade wrote:LOL

First we had DP and Dy mixed up alot, now we have DP and PD!

This is going to be very interesting!

Wow I feel like...

Did anyone actually look at topic of the thread? :spammers:

SNOT'o'MATIC

I had a good question PM'd to me today. Though I'd share it.

Hey rook, I was thinking about the MOCs I was going to build to try and get in the guild when a question about a technique came to me about one, do you know any good ways to make a platform with studs on both the top and bottom parts of it and to have it be able to rotate vertically? In case you don't understand what I mean here is a basic picture of what I mean.

Hehe. I would love it if Lego made a piece like that. Ok there's several ways.

Option 1:
There are 1x1x1 pieces like that. Just string some in a row or stack rows on top of each other.

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Option 2:
1x1x1 stud (with studs on 5 sides), then 1x1 plate on top, then 1x1 plate on top, then 1x1x1 stud (with studs on 5 sides) on top. The studs on the sides will be 3 studs apart form each other.

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Option 3:
Use technic pieces with 1x1x1 pins with stud tips place every other one in the opposite direction. Like: 6969696969…

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Option 4:
Much harder use 1x1 round clips. Placing 1x1 round plates on the left and right side of the clips.

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Finally Option 5:
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Of course there are many other ways to do it but at least now you have some basic options.

That is a nice. But I like this one:

That way's a little sloppy, as it still leaves a gap between the bricks. The easiest method is to use the old 1x2 finger hinges (if you can get them). Just turn one hinge upside-down, insert it into the other hinge, and voila. Might work with the newer click-hinges, but it would be bulkier as a result.

Ok I updated it with pictures.

Hmm, never thought of option 4 before, but I would use option three, seems easiest.

I don't know if anyone here knows this but lego does make those pieces, I have on. It's a 2x2 plate with double sides.

CloneCommandoXion wrote:I don't know if anyone here knows this but lego does make those pieces, I have on. It's a 2x2 plate with double sides.

Photo, or the piece doesn't exist. I'm pretty sure that there isn't a plate with studs on both sides.

Well I have one and it has the lego signs on the stud ends.

Could you please take a pick? I'd like some of those.

CloneCommandoXion wrote:I don't know if anyone here knows this but lego does make those pieces, I have on. It's a 2x2 plate with double sides.

Negative, though there has been a few off/fake brands that have made that piece throughout the years. I had a couple from a Tyco Superblocks Construction set
from the early 90s. The piece was 2x2, half a plate thickness and had studs on both sides, if I find a pic online I'll update this post.

Impossible, such a piece doesn't exist.

Found the Super block piece on an ebay pic, not a real good pic. Next time I go to my parents I'll dig through the old, old community Lego and take a better pic.

That's LEGO?!

Are you sure about that?

I pretty sure Halen is aware of that Tac.

Commander Halen wrote:
I had a couple from a Tyco Superblocks Construction set from the early 90s.

Yeah I know its not Lego, but I'd thought I'd share.