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Technique Week: Day 4
Welcome to Day 4 of Technique Week! To balance out yesterday's complicated and piece-intensive technique, I decided to go with something much simpler today. Today's technique is a dresser using minifigure suitcases as drawers. The suitcases are 3 plates tall (minus handle), 5 plates wide and not quite 2 plates thick, so when you stack 4 of them on their sides, you get a height of about 7.5 plates. This allows me to make the entire dresser 4 studs tall but to put the bottom tile half a plate above the ground, giving the dresser legs, or feet (not sure what to call those). Ironically, even though this is my simplest technique yet, this is the first one where I didn't have enough pieces of one color, hence the black suitcase.
I think this technique is a nice alternative to the more common bucket handle drawer technique, especially for people like me who own exactly one bucket handle.
Click here for more days of Technique Week and and here for previous techniques.
EDIT (March 2020): It took me way too long to realize this, but Halhi pulled off an earlier version of this here. So this post should probably be thought of more as a publicity post for an existing technique than a showcase of a new one.
Technique Week: Day 4
Welcome to Day 4 of Technique Week! To balance out yesterday's complicated and piece-intensive technique, I decided to go with something much simpler today. Today's technique is a dresser using minifigure suitcases as drawers. The suitcases are 3 plates tall (minus handle), 5 plates wide and not quite 2 plates thick, so when you stack 4 of them on their sides, you get a height of about 7.5 plates. This allows me to make the entire dresser 4 studs tall but to put the bottom tile half a plate above the ground, giving the dresser legs, or feet (not sure what to call those). Ironically, even though this is my simplest technique yet, this is the first one where I didn't have enough pieces of one color, hence the black suitcase.
I think this technique is a nice alternative to the more common bucket handle drawer technique, especially for people like me who own exactly one bucket handle.
Click here for more days of Technique Week and and here for previous techniques.
EDIT (March 2020): It took me way too long to realize this, but Halhi pulled off an earlier version of this here. So this post should probably be thought of more as a publicity post for an existing technique than a showcase of a new one.