Technique Week: Day 2

Welcome to day 2 of Technique Week! For all of this week, and possibly longer if I can keep going, I'll be posting a new technique every day.

 

Today's technique is a shingle roof technique. The two critical pieces here are the Minifigure seat and the 1x2 plate with ladder. To construct this, turn the ladders and chairs upside-down. Then wedge the fronts of the chairs in-between every second rung of the ladders. See here for a demonstration. For anyone like me who somehow wound up with an excess of chairs, especially brown chairs, this should come in handy. To fill the gaps that happen at the edges when you offset the chairs, use 1x2 tiles connected to the bottom of the chairs via 1x1 bricks with stud on one side (unless you can figure out a better way, which I'm sure exists).

You can do something similar with ladder pieces and these pieces, but I don't like the effect of that one quite as much, so I decided not to post that variation.

 

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I've also used this technique in an actual build, unlike most of my other ones. :P So you can see this technique in action.

Done