and another arrow loop

by **caesar2164** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 11:45 pm

here it is:

Brickshelf:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=75232

if its not yet up, look here:

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/caesar2164/Castle/ArrowLoop/arrow_loop.jpg

and here:

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/caesar2164/Castle/ArrowLoop/arrow_loop_back.jpg

and here:

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/caesar2164/Castle/ArrowLoop/arrow_loop_front.jpg

by **Devari** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 11:52 pm

WOW! It looks like the best yet, IMHO... :shock:

Do you have any practical brick pictures? Or could someone do some? The details are a wee bit hard to see.

by **catena** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 1:21 am

Are the SNOT parts to either side of the archer loop attached to the frame? If so, how?

My first design for an archer loop in a one-stud thick wall used two unattached parts which closed up a 4-stud-by-4-stud frame to a narrow slit, but the parts fell out. I guess this would be less of a problem with a two-stud-thick wall, but I'd rather they be attached.

by **footsteps** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 9:34 am

Okay, 'fess up! How'd ya do it? I can see that side-stud bricks are used at the edges, but the inside details escape me. Unpack that sucker and let us see the insides!!! That is the narrowest arrow slit I've seen using SNOT slopes and I wanna know how it's done.

Alan

by **caesar2164** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 7:07 pm

well I used some 1 x 1 bricks withe the stud on the side and a hole on the opposite side. to those you attach a normal 1 x 1 and it is equal to two bricks sideways.

If this explanation was hard to understand and it is,

here are some helping pics.

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/caesar2164/Castle/ArrowLoop/arrow_loop_detail.jpg

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/caesar2164/Castle/ArrowLoop/arrow_loop_detail_front.jpg

If you guys still don't get it then open up the Ldraw...

I would have shown you guys some pictures but,

1. I didn't have pictures.

2. I only have black extra pieces and the pictures would look horrible

so LDraw it is

And yes I have built it and it does work,

Each slope is attached to the 3 thick wall by two studs in the middle row of studs of the wall.

hope it now makes more sense...

by **footsteps** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 8:31 pm

A picture speaks a thousand words, and yours explain things admirably. Thanks.
Question: was it necessary to have two layers of bricks between the side-stud bricks and the slopes? Would it also work with only one layer of bricks?

Alan

by **caesar2164** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 8:58 pm

well, yes because remember, five bricks tall equal six bricks wide...

and the the side stud w/ the normal 1 x 1 needs 2 studs to work.

sorry if thats confusing

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