Brickshelf Finds - Stairs

[lemon_squeezer2]

I was browsing around on BS and came across these nifty looking stairs - certainly someting worth to copy:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=39686

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=91078

Enjoy!

BTW these are not mine

[Bruce N H]

That's Bram Lambrecht's work:
http://lego.bldesign.org/
Nice design. As it is it looks too space-y, but it could definitely be refashioned to look castle-y.

Bruce

[forester3291]

That's Bram Lambrecht's work:
http://lego.bldesign.org/
Nice design. As it is it looks too space-y, but it could definitely be refashioned to look castle-y.

Bruce

How in the world do you ever find all the real names of these guys? Are you some sort of Evil Necromancer that has the brain the size of a barn and just telepathically says the persons username on Brickshelf and the name and website jsut come to you? If not tell me your secret.

Okay on the subject. These(as the evil necromancer with the brain the size of the barn said) A bit to space like. The curved stairs are ia bit less spacey though. I think the toll holder as the railing on pic1 makes the stairs look spacey. Maybe a 6x1 plate would look better?

[Bruce N H]

Hehe, I'll never reveal my secrets.

Oh, what the heck. I've got two things going for me. 1) I've been around these various forums for a few years, reading across all the themes, so there's a lot of stuff I recognize. 2) I just do a lot of clicking and searching.

In this situation, for instance, after looking at the stairs:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=39686
I clicked "up":
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=3971
Hmm, that mini-moonbase looks familiar. I know I've seen it somewhere. This must be one of the big .space guys. Click "up" again:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=1871
Oh, yeah, all of those great vehicles look familiar. Wait a minute--there's some writing on that one. Click "FerrariF355":
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=5642
Then click on the first pic:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=56427
Ooh, there's the website. And seeing that jogs my memory of the name--this is Bram Lambrecht. Types in URL just to check:
http://lego.bldesign.org/
Yep, that's Bram.

That's generally my method. I do a lot of searches on Lugnet, Brickshelf, and MOCpages to see if I can find links to other MOCs in a gallery, etc. Also over the last couple of years I've created a lot of links pages (e.g. I hand-typed almost every link in the LEGOfan.org website directory). Etc.

Bruce

[forester3291]

Wow. Lots of work goes into being an evil necromancer with a brain the size of a barn. I don't think I will try it

[lil Jon]

I think he is more of a LEGO dective.

I always remember if i see something twice, but never who made them.

On topic:
Those stairs are pretty neat. The spiral ones would work well for a castle. They probably stay in place better than the HP ones.

[J1A3L5]

I really like that first design for the stairs. I'm not so taken with the spiral ones, simply because I don't think I'd ever use them. The first set I'd be most likely to use with a space MOC. It does require a certain type of that bar, the old type, type 1 I believe?

With names, I know lots of people's names because, first, I have chatted with them (Or, in the case of Bram, been in the same chat but not talked directly,) or seen them post recognizable (As Bruce said,) MOC's at LUGNET.

[Sir Terrance]

I'm a big fan of space and know lots of the spacers out there and their galleries so I knew bl was Bram's account.

Anyway, I like them a lot, just not sure how they are attached together.

[Mr. D]

Take a look at these stairs, they coud be very castle-y.

[Robin Hood]

It never ceases to amaze me of how many different ways you can use lego. these are amazing works of lego.

Dan

[footsteps]

On the topic of stairs, I also have a spiral version, though not quite as elegant as the ones highlighted in this thread:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=400233

I know the pic isn't the best quality, but hopefully you can get the idea of what goes into the structure. The one thing that surprised me was that it was amazingly stable for something that relies on only a 1x1 central pillar.

Alan[/url]

[Duke_Dave]

I really like the spiral stairs, i would use them in my castles. I also like your design Alan. Good work,


Dave

[lemon_squeezer2]

On the topic of stairs, I also have a spiral version, though not quite as elegant as the ones highlighted in this thread:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=400233

That is a good design. I am really taking a liking to it. It isn't as fancy as the spiral design that I found, but it still carries the same idea and is alot easier to make.

What really impresses me though is the way you made the different sections "explode" by swinging out whole floors. I might be finding myself using that design in future models.

[Bruce N H]

I've got some here:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=573055
that were amazingly flimsy. I was trying to go for a more air-y feeling that I thought would fit with elves, but it was frustrating because it kept falling apart. Oh well, it only had to last through the photo session.

Jojo has a great stairwell here:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=443459

Bruce

[fcarcanague]

I liked Jojo's the best. Very well supported and truely artistic, just wide enough for one minifig but not HP clumsy.

Bruce's is just what he said, airy. Almost whispy looking that fragile but still very nice design.

As for the original stairs for this threed...
The white one would work well in an art-deco house or a cruise ship type of MOC. The steep one w/the bar for a railing is truly a space or military MOC. It has that compact, efficient look, all function and very little form.

These are all very nice examples of spiral stairs, I have yet to venture into that realm.

Fred