This is an entry for the Trading Places category of Brickscalibur and the Old but Gold category of the current Guilds of Historica challenge. It is a revamp of the…
Cozei shares his gorgeous round roof technique in this installation of our Featured Tutorials. “Hello! Today I am sharing my hut roof design. The goal of the roof was to sit comfortably on a round hut of stacked stones. To begin I was not sure how to make a faceted structure look mostly round and to connect those facets attached at a complex angle. My first thought was to use Mixel ball and socket joints. On their own these did not quite have the range of rotation needed, the arm of the ball end hit the socket sides. Adding a small turntable under the Mixel joint allows for some added rotation and a little forgiving float. Here is the completed roof to start with some tile and studded plates to give a chunky thatched look. The grey rounds extending out are a column of smoke. Here is a view of the complete roof underneath. The roof structure before detailing is made of 8 roughly triangular panels. They connect…
For this month’s featured tutorial, Simon NH shares how to create a thatched roof using some unconventional, but highly effective methods. “Thatched roof tutorial Since lime green, pearl gold and…
Roofs are often one of the trickiest sections of a model to make. Especially avoiding gaps or blocky steps around roof ends. This tutorial shows how to make some effective…
This was built for the Guilds of Historica on Eurobricks. I continued experimenting with cross braces, and took inspiration for the tower’s gables from Brickvader. As the spring weather causes…
The completed collab that John and I built for Brickfair VA 2016 where it won Best Castle/Knights. The base is 130×98 studs making it our largest build ever, and it…
A freebuild for Guilds of Historica. I used the vast majority of our dark brown collection in this build, and really like how it looks with the reddish brown walls.…
As usual, I started with the building layout, and then began roughing out the walls: The interior was a important part of the build, so I used a 1 stud…
How to build a curved roof like the one I used here: It consists of 5 sections hooked together: The white 1×2 plates, are jumpers, the outer most sections should…
My build for Round 1 of The Tourney at MOCpages. Halhi141, Brick Productions, Infernum, and Kai Bernstein all gave helpful suggestions for this build. This is my largest building…
