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Hey all,

This would take like a gazillion slopes, but dmac has an interesting rounded tower technique:

Looks like he's using it for a Star Wars MOC (that imperial base on Endor, I think), but it could equally well be a rounded castle tower.

Bruce

It looks very cool! I would love to see the final product of the entire wall. I tried this once to make an outfield wall for a baseball field, but it failed miserably, or at least I did.

Hrm. I wonder if the tower could be reduced in size to help with the parts-intensity. This is an excellent idea, however, and I'll certainly be keeping it in mind.

That looks great. It's funny, just the other day I put those five slopes together and thought about how they could make a nice round tunnel, but I never thought of turning them on their side to make a pillar/tower!

It would use a lot of slopes, but compared to the alternating 1x3 brick 1x2 tube technique, this actually looks like it requires a much smaller number of parts.

I think that if it was reduced in size you'd lose the rounded effect and would end up with more of an octagonal tower.

Bruce

cool technique, it is very parts intensive though, I doubt anyone could realistically use this to build a tall, mini-fig scale tower.

However I could see the usefulness of this if you're building a round or curved structure in micro-scale. You could also use this to make a barrel vault.

I don't think it's that impractical. Of the five slopes used to make this, 3 of them can be had in large quantities on BL for under $ .07 per brick, and the other two are around $.13. 60 of each of those five slopes would be enough to build a tower 30 studs (brick widths) high, 3x the height of the pictured prototype. Total cost for the bricks would probably be something like $25 not counting shipping.

That being said, it seems like it would be quite a challenge to integrate any kind of windows or other architectural details using this technique. But that's going to be true for any lego design involving round shapes.