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Some may have already seen this but I decided to upload this on my main account too, just to share. I've been thankful for a ton of behind-the-scenes pictures of other builders, so yeah…check out my second Acc. if you like it. :))
I've started to develop this technique in 2016 and improved it from time to time. New pieces made it less part intensive and more versatile. The technique allows to completely regulate every gap between the tiles/plates/ingots/clips/etc., to achieve an organic look without being to chaotic.
You can find this and quite a few other techniques on my Second Account/
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Pnoi_APL asked for it.
This is the technique I used for the Skipper Kite and a soon-to-be-photographed MOC, as well.
No, the gap isn't completely closed, but it's real close, so I can't be arsed to find a better-fitting technique that compensates for that tiny slot.
I'm not sure if this has been done before or not, but here you go.
Our latest tutorial on Brickbuilt explains how to create trees like those used in my Allanar Forest build, and in my most recent creation, Shrooms!
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.
This is a one stud wide variation of the technique shown in this New Elementary article about a LEGO bonzai tree set.
This is possible thanks to the Plate, Round 1 x 1 with Bar Handle 25893, and works as long as you have a symmetry between blue and yellow groups and clips/handles do not collide (up to 25 degrees it seems).
Very useful when you need a fixed, stable angle.
26MAR2021 update: the junction between the handle and the 1x1 round plate is thicker in reality, so the angle showed above cannot be done. And it's not that sturdy actually.
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.
I promised this breakdown in November…
(For “distracted”)
www.flickr.com/photos/201327294@N03/54031820034/
Full instructions coming… soon?
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 working on a new Moc and I found this orignal technique to build flower bushes. I don't know if this technique has already been used by other builders - probably I guess.
Whilst taking a brief respite after climb a steep hill I saw these trees lined up and knew I wanted to claim the shot. The only shot, on this walk that wasn't shot hand held.
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.
I am trying four different techniques on this multi-photo panorama.
Town Hall Tower
Wieża Ratuszowa
Town Hall Tower in Kraków, Poland is one of the main focal points of the Main Market Square in the Old Town district of Kraków. The Tower is the only remaining part of the old Kraków Town Hall demolished in 1820 as part of the city plan to open up the Main Square. Wikipedia
Rynek Główny
The main square (Rynek Główny) of the Old Town of Kraków, Lesser Poland, is the principal urban space located at the center of the city. It dates back to the 13th century, and at 3.79 ha (9.4 acres) is the largest medieval town square in Europe. The Project for Public Spaces (PPS) lists the square as the best public space in Europe due to its lively street life, and it was a major factor in the inclusion of Kraków as one of the top off-the-beaten-path destinations in the world in 2016.
The main square is a square space surrounded by historic townhouses (kamienice) and churches. The center of the square is dominated by the Cloth Hall (Sukiennice), rebuilt in 1555 in the Renaissance style, topped by a beautiful attic or Polish parapet decorated with carved masks. On one side of the cloth hall is the Town Hall Tower (Wieża ratuszowa), on the other the 11th century Church of St. Adalbert and 1898 Adam Mickiewicz Monument. Rising above the square are the Gothic towers of St. Mary's Basilica (Kościół Mariacki).
When you go to the Texas State Fair, you MUST eat corndogs! I'm demonstrating my proper corndog eating "technique" here.
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.
De G à D:
Glacier du Nant Blanc coiffé de l'Aiguille Verte (4122m), les Drus, puis au loin l'Aiguille du Midi en premier plan du Mont Blanc, Vallée de Chamonix.
vu des Aiguilles des Grands Motets (3295m)
Chamonix
Panoramique.
Technique: I found this small snail but it wasn't active, so I put a little water on it and it came out to soak it up.
Tech Specs: Canon 70D (F14, 1/250, ISO 200) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (about 1.5x) + a diffused MT-24EX. This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. I used an artificial flower for the background.
This has several photo techniques on it. The first, a rainting, is right out of my camera, but through a window with rain on it. That is not really a post processing technique but merely choosing a way to shoot the picture. I coined the word "Rainting." Then the foggy sky was dreadfully dull; so I used an equalizing technique. That made the sky more interesting, but just about washed out *Scrawny* the little tree I named and then named the hill after. So I did some pen technique on the tree in black, but I don't have the steadiest hand in the world; so it was kind of too wide with the lines and too jumpy from point to point.. I used a light marker technique to soften the lines I drew for the tree, but leave them still evident. I embossed the whole photo,
(DSCN7556-rainting+embopeneqlltmrkr-scrawnytreehill-init)
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.
Following on from ZoulBrick's technique 0315, here is a small alteration with some different attributes.
If you can tolerate the round tile 4150 sitting slightly proud of the vertical building surface, this method will enable that building surface to be otherwise smooth, rather than broken with the round elements from part 4081. Note that the round tile 4150 is rotated 102° - 90° = 12°.
However. this revised assembly is also unfortunately slightly less strong.
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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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!
A slight hint of blue overlooking Lough Tay this evening -unfortunately the clouds weren't cooperating with my theme this time round...
52 weeks of 2016
Week No: 22
Theme: Blue Hour
Category: Technique
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?
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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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...
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.
Technique Week II | Technique Week I
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.
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.
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.