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Technique I used for the cedar shingle/siding of the fishing shack MOC. Might be better suited for a roof...
The walls are 1x2 tiles, attached vertically to 1x6 horizontal plates. I overlaped those assemblies, spacing them 1.5 studs apart (using a 1/2 stud offset plate in back). This allows you to randomly slide/stagger each individual tile.
I always like to improve my building techniques, so i tried my hands on a new water technique for my recent build.
In general it's the normal trans tiles + different shades of grey underground -technique, but now flowing.
To get this effect it needs a LOT of tiles and nearly twice as much 1x1 Tiles with clip.
One clip always hold two tiles together.
Using the usual tolerance of the bricks it's possible to bend the plain water into waves.
Just realized this is possible and wanted to keep it for future reference, as I have no direct need for it now. Hope others find it useful too. This should allow for reasonably decent angled stripes too because you could continue to go diagonal with multiple 2x2s, 3x3s or 4x4s in a row.
There are slight gaps, but not large enough to fill with ½ plate elements. Those gaps can be used as subtle greebling, so it's not that bad if you can make it work for you.
Note I did not have a 3x3 plate at hand but it's not required: the solution shown here is one plate higher than a single 3x3 plate would be. If you want to cover things with tiles, the extra plate height is unavoidable for 3x3 and 4x4 anyway.
You can do this with larger wedge plates too, obviously.
Another technique!
If this looks familiar to you, that's likely because there are two other ways to achieve this effect, namely the well-known technique of connecting 1x2 tiles with minifigure hands (which, as far as I can tell, can be attributed to Barney Main) and this technique by Simon NH. However, if you are looking for something that is sturdier than the first option and don't own a bunch of 2x2 corner tiles, this variation might work for you. The key piece here is the inverted 2x2 tile, which can be combined with 1x2 tiles and a simple support structure in back. Rotating the pieces as far as is possible to get a rougher texture helps to distinguish the individual "bricks" in the wall from one another and makes for a more interesting texture. It's also helpful to utilize two colors rather than one. I originally though that this technique would be fairly limited in terms of color, but it turns out the 2x2 inverted tile is available in light and dark bley, tan, and sand green, so you can actually achieve a fair bit of variety with this technique in terms of color.
I'll be posting more techniques in the next couple of days (because a little bit of sensationalism never hurts :P ). If you've seen this technique before, please let me know! I don't want to "claim" techniques that other people discovered before I did. In any case, feel free to use this.
I'm sure someone's probably found this before, but if not, then yay!
It moves with some stiffness, and is sturdy for minor applications.
An interesting connection/technique I happened upon recently with the ranger hat (98279) and small dino head (40384) elements. The connection is sturdy and doesn't put the head under that much stress.
I have one idea for it, but I would love to hear your thoughts!
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When you go to the Texas State Fair, you MUST eat corndogs! I'm demonstrating my proper corndog eating "technique" here.
Well I have been trying to figure out a good bow design so here are some I have made. Tell me wich one you like best or if you know any other good designs. Also I am aware that most of these are not my design so if you know who did some please tell me and I will add those people. Also I have seen Siercon and Coral's bow design. I think it is good but there are some downsides. Like the hinge piece or whatever is hard to find in sets and putting the string on the bow looks hard. Also feel free to use these designs if you give credit to the person who made it. One more thing. I am looking for a crossbow or a short bow more than a long bow.
Hope you enjoyed it.
JJ
I promised this breakdown in November…
(For “distracted”)
www.flickr.com/photos/201327294@N03/54031820034/
Full instructions coming… soon?
I've discovered two ways of making 5 point stars, but I'm having trouble finding uses for them because they are tricky to attach to a moc.
A digital image 'dreamed by' Midjourney, an artificial intelligence program that creates images from textual descriptions. The technique evolves fast. Let's compare these results with the images in one year's time..
A couple of people here and on Eurobricks asked about the offset in the board walk on my last build. Here is a breakdown. It's something I've seen somewhere on Flickr and shamelessly copied, but I can't find my original source to give proper credit.
One of our favorite window techniques we simply haven't gotten around to using for a large scale castle yet. Play around with the various colors, Grey/Black, Black/Black, Brown/Tan, etc.
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And here's a look at the technique used to reverse the stud connections inside.
The 1x1 piece with the thick 'o' clip is the key part. And the result is a very tight connection that can be used to quickly reverse stud direction. it's three plates thick. And depending how you line up the 'o' clips, you can have studs facing other directions too, and, they'll line up very neatly with the edges of the bricks.
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Architetture incastonate in uno scenario fantasy....!!!
Piccole modifiche dell'immagine in post-produzione......!!!
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The matte painting (which can be translated with painting backgrounds) is a technique used mainly in film used to allow the representation of landscapes or places otherwise too costly or impossible to reconstruct or reach directly.
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Welcome to Day 9 of Technique Week! Today I get to present to you what may be my favorite technique yet.
It's a flooring pattern! Though it's inspired by legostrator's most recent technique (which you should totally check out), it's really more closely related to my own brick wall technique than anything else. The picture shows pretty well how to make it, but I'll run through the process anyways.
First, place 2 layers of 1x4 plates, one vertical and one horizontal so they form a strip that is always 4 studs wide and each plate is offset by one stud from the next. Repeat this several times. Then, attach 1x1 tiles with clip on top to the strip as shown in the picture (the red clips are oriented horizontally, the black ones vertically). Then, attach 1x2 tiles to 1x2 plates with horizontal bar, and attach those to the clips. Now, you have several strips of an offset tile-pattern. You connect those using some headlight bricks, 1x1 bricks with stud on one side and 1x1 plates as shown in the picture to offset the strips from each other by half a plate both vertically and horizontally.
I personally love this technique and definitely plan on using it in a moc sometime soon.
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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 one in action.
This is a new wall idea I used in my last Star Wars MOC. (www.flickr.com/photos/162558636@N03/49798867747/in/datepo...)
The plates are connected by clips, which are attached to SNOT bricks.
I think it creates a great look, what do you think?
Stay healthy!
Seamless and no pressure between the plates! It would be perfect for towers or zeppelins, but I don't have that many joint bricks.
Are your images sharp or slightly soft? My article Tips and Techniques for Sharp Images covers key points you need to keep in mind to achieve sharp images. You can read it at this link I hope you enjoy!
This image : Deep in the arid lands of northern Namibia, a world of sand, stone and dust, a miraculous artery of life giving water traces the entire western and central border to Angola, and graces what must count among our planet's most beautiful waterfalls in a desert environment.
so i was messing around with my own stuff + mulletgod's actions (thanks MG, these are gems, freebies, too god to pass up and not play with! www.mulletgod.org/photoshopactions/ ) and using ghostbones' texture atop them (thanks ghostbones! www.flickr.com/photos/ghostbones/ ) . i decided to do a crazy ps method and used the color range method to select parts of my photo and then dragged them to the texture. sort of fun. obviously wouldn't work for every image but nevermind that. feels old timey to me. almost faux platinotype, eh?
As much as I love the BA minigun, I always thought that the body would look better as a square-y shape. Thanks to the usability of the BF megagun, the BA handle & barrel, a cut piece of flex tube, and a monopod, that is now possible. Use with credit, and enjoy! :D
Inspirations tagged.
Came up with this variant when I wanted to extend the one in black/white and realized it didn't work. The distance changed - to the better. Now I can fit 1x1 bricks and two cheese slopes and the stress is almost gone.
The technique is implemented in this MOC: www.flickr.com/photos/eiffelben/6197444089/in/set-7215762...
Well, here is the outcome of my Round 4 challenge from Get Pushed .
I was pushed by www.flickr.com/photos/misst.shs/
to:
1. Shoot a moving subject (you choose the subject) using the panning technique
2. The final posted image must be in color and shot in the daylight
3. Must convey a definite feeling of movement
4. Shoot at a maximum shutter speed of 1/30
5. Must have at least part of the main subject somewhat in focus
6. Very little post processing (some cropping and level adjustments are O K).
I'm not going to lie, I was freaking out a little about this challenge. I had never before tried the panning technique, and was a little scared. Yet, even though this is most definitely NOT the best panning shot I have ever seen, I must admit I am satisfied. :)
You can find misst.shs' response to my challenge here!
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Technique: I used a syringe to add sugar syrup to a few flowers so that this Honeybee would have a reason to let me get close.
Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/125, ISO 200 due to Highlight Tone Priority) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (about 2.5x) + a diffused MT-26EX-RT ("A" flash head on a Kaiser adjustable flash shoe), E-TTL metering, 0 FEC, second curtain sync).
The matte painting (which can be translated with painting backgrounds) is a technique used mainly in film used to allow the representation of landscapes or places otherwise too costly or impossible to reconstruct or reach directly.
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A second brick wall technique. This one is perhaps a bit less useful than the previous ones, but I figured it was still worth posting. Please let me know if you've seen this before!
Rather than placing distance between individual "bricks" as most wall techniques do, I wanted to know what would happen if the bricks were differentiated by depth instead. Here, the individual bricks in the wall are constructed using 1x2 plates with horizontal bar and 1x2 tiles. These are connected to headlight bricks or 1x1 bricks with stud on one side via robot hands, wich allows for the individual bricks to be placed at varying depths. In this example, I used three different depths with differences of roughly 1/4 of a plate (or 2 LDU). It is a rather piece intensive technique, but it yields an interesting texture and is fairly sturdy overall.
I have a couple more techniques left to post! I may not be able to maintain my one-a-day schedule for these last ones, but I hope I'll be able to post them soon.
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Also, if you're like me and happen to have a lot of 1x2 plates with horizontal bar on hand, here's another brick wall technique that has a lot of cool possibilities, and here's a floor technique using these wonderful pieces as well.
Kind of obvious really, since they're really just 2x2 plates, but I think they look neat. Repeating the pattern, mudguard end to end, is not as easy. If someone has a solution, I'd like to see it.
infrapinklizard has a great solution for this here.