Fun with cheese slopes and headlight bricks

puddleglum · Post by **puddleglum** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 11:24 pm

I was goofing around with cheese slopes and headlight bricks, and I am officially fascinated with the geometry that these pieces combine to form. I wouldn't be surprised if all this stuff was common knowledge, but I thought it was interesting so I'm sharing. Photos are links to Flickr.

Z!

This probably doesn't have any practical use...

I thought this could be useful as an architectural detail.

Random ziggy zagies...

Hewkiril · Post by **Hewkiril** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 1:02 am

That Z could be useful in a wacky castle or a Zorro vignette. I like it.

Garbageman13 · Post by **Garbageman13** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 1:04 am

Awesome! Mind if I borrow an idea or too? I'll give credit of course!

wunztwice · Post by **wunztwice** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 1:06 am

I'm sure I'll be keeping tabs of these for future reference. That Z is particularly surprising to me for some reason...

As to your quote on this one, I'm sure you could use it for slanted color changes (such as on a locomotive, etc)!

puddleglum wrote: This probably doesn't have any practical use...

Garbageman13 · Post by **Garbageman13** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 1:35 am

wunztwice wrote:I'm sure I'll be keeping tabs of these for future reference. That Z is particularly surprising to me for some reason...

As to your quote on this one, I'm sure you could use it for slanted color changes (such as on a locomotive, etc)!

puddleglum wrote: This probably doesn't have any practical use...

Maybe for water?

Post by **SavaTheAggie** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 5:09 am

Garbageman13 wrote:
wunztwice wrote:I'm sure I'll be keeping tabs of these for future reference. That Z is particularly surprising to me for some reason...

As to your quote on this one, I'm sure you could use it for slanted color changes (such as on a locomotive, etc)!

puddleglum wrote: This probably doesn't have any practical use...

Maybe for water?

Thin stained glass windows (using transparent cheese slopes).

--Tony

Post by **Athos** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 6:05 pm

I really like the arch things. Very nice.

The Z is interesting too...

Steve

puddleglum · Post by **puddleglum** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 1:12 pm

Garbageman13 wrote:Awesome! Mind if I borrow an idea or too? I'll give credit of course!

By all means, feel free.

Ahhh I was working all yellow and didn't even think about color changes! I liked what Aggie said about stained glass windows. The strange thing about that particular combination is that I think it only works because of the LEGO tolerances - It's very difficult to fit 4 cheese slopes in the width of two studs, even though 2 in 1 seems to work. Anyways, because it's tight, it does allow us to put multiple cheese slopes in places where they are "floating". Here's a fleshing out of Aggie's idea, except I didn't have the requisite trans-clear slopes. Everything in yellow except the top two and bottom two pieces are floating.

puddleglum · Post by **puddleglum** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 10:30 pm

Just found this of flickr, looks like someone else has done some nice work along these lines.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bruceywan/2444891972/

Classic-Castle.com

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