Something familiar ....

[Blueandwhite]

I do believe that someone else has discussed that technique. Really familiar to the whole wall-with-slight-bend technique that works when you have a wall of all 1x2s, that has slight bending properties. What this person did is stressed the bricks more and that made them turn more therefore getting the bend. I do believe it damages the bricks pretty badly though.

Actually, there is a way to achieve this look without using 1x2s or damaging bricks. It is possible to do this with 1x2s, but the bricks will end up damaged. Instead, try playing around with alot of these and a bunch of 1x4 hinge bricks. The tooth in the wedge brick allows a certain flexibility that the traditional 1x2 obviously lacks. Face the flat 2 stud surface of the brick outwards. The hinges create a natural inward bend, so they can be used in conjunction with wedge bricks for increased stability. Plates and tiles may be used to reinforce the inside of the curve. (This only works for convex curves).

[g2]

I think that the round tower looks great. For that matter the whole castle looks great. I rally like the design of it, with all the red accents, like the door and the windows. Extremely nice work overall.

[supernova]

I do believe that someone else has discussed that technique. Really familiar to the whole wall-with-slight-bend technique that works when you have a wall of all 1x2s, that has slight bending properties. What this person did is stressed the bricks more and that made them turn more therefore getting the bend. I do believe it damages the bricks pretty badly though.

Actually, there is a way to achieve this look without using 1x2s or damaging bricks. It is possible to do this with 1x2s, but the bricks will end up damaged. Instead, try playing around with alot of these and a bunch of 1x4 hinge bricks. The tooth in the wedge brick allows a certain flexibility that the traditional 1x2 obviously lacks. Face the flat 2 stud surface of the brick outwards. The hinges create a natural inward bend, so they can be used in conjunction with wedge bricks for increased stability. Plates and tiles may be used to reinforce the inside of the curve. (This only works for convex curves).

i am interested in how this works, but I can't seem to visualise it. Could you possibly supplement it with a picture?

[Blueandwhite]

I do believe that someone else has discussed that technique. Really familiar to the whole wall-with-slight-bend technique that works when you have a wall of all 1x2s, that has slight bending properties. What this person did is stressed the bricks more and that made them turn more therefore getting the bend. I do believe it damages the bricks pretty badly though.

Actually, there is a way to achieve this look without using 1x2s or damaging bricks. It is possible to do this with 1x2s, but the bricks will end up damaged. Instead, try playing around with alot of these and a bunch of 1x4 hinge bricks. The tooth in the wedge brick allows a certain flexibility that the traditional 1x2 obviously lacks. Face the flat 2 stud surface of the brick outwards. The hinges create a natural inward bend, so they can be used in conjunction with wedge bricks for increased stability. Plates and tiles may be used to reinforce the inside of the curve. (This only works for convex curves).

i am interested in how this works, but I can't seem to visualise it. Could you possibly supplement it with a picture?

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I threw this together pretty quickly, but its possible to get a curve of around 28-32 studs in diameter. THe benefit here, is that there is no damage done to the bricks. Of course, collecting enough wedges and hinges to make this viable could be quite expensive.


Later.