The World Of Twilight

Just somewhere for me and you to dump interesting ideas or suggestions that don't fit anywhere else

like this kind of thing for a sloped bridge...

(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_RRKBhA-2I4w/TDtNzoRwWGI/AAAAAAAAC9M/Wi-cNG8TCfQ/sloped%20brideg.jpg)

Interesting. How much would it take to make it stepped? Looks a little steep for a slope.

oh it would be stepped - thats just the basic block outline thrown together for speed ... its about a 1in 3 slope (rising 56.5mm over a length of 150.5mm  dont ask why the sizes are so odd..its a long story!) kind of like the existing bridge, only rising from one floor up to the next.

maybe it could be combined with a stepped ramp to the floor...

(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_RRKBhA-2I4w/TDth3vosU3I/AAAAAAAAC9k/LWXtCBHdMvM/ramp.jpg)

and possibly then arranged like this ...

(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_RRKBhA-2I4w/TDth8XcJYPI/AAAAAAAAC9s/QQa-OtjNd8Y/sloped%20bridge2.jpg)

I have a feeling that this is going to become more of a "platformer" set of terrain at this rate.

It is starting to feel a bit more like Mikes idea that the larger buildings evolve over time with extensions etc going on from time to time, adding a bridge to another more recent building for example.

I know one thing Mike is keen on is the intersecting cylinders of different diamaters, as it fits with this idea.

Yeah i know - me too.

I'm struggling a little to make kits like that though

• something of suitable diameter to make the larger buildings from
• the need to create a small range of buildings before i try for the more complex intersecting stuff
• how to do the intersecting thing in a way that makes them modular and interchangeable.

I could do it straight away on my desk here with some postal tubes and strips of styrene stock - but thats differet to making and selling a kit.  Just need some inspiration and brain juice.

Y'know you were talking about twiglet tubs and things for different sizes of tubes - just remembered that the co-op near me was selling them last week, so may not just be a seasonal thing.

really? that's odd as the websites say only provided at xmas... maybe those are stale old stock???

Dont try and kid us your bothered about whats in them !!!

MMMMmmmmMMmmmmm .... card tubes !!

 ;D

mike suggested somewhere a bridge... you know one of them simple "how do we get over this little stream" kinda bridges. No twiddles, no shingle roofs, no cylinder, no fancy twiddly bits...

So I wondered about this basic shape.

(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_RRKBhA-2I4w/TDzliU7v7kI/AAAAAAAAC-Q/oXMTD4_X5qE/humb%20backed%20bridge1.jpg)

simple enough?

But then i wondered.. "but what if its a bigger stream...?"

So the old brain did this...

(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_RRKBhA-2I4w/TDzliyZ9-sI/AAAAAAAAC-U/6GiRpxlkGAI/humb%20backed%20bridge2.jpg)

oh i was pleased... nice and simple just like mike wanted right...

But it could be a river... rather than a stream...

Hmmm

(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_RRKBhA-2I4w/TDzljA1D83I/AAAAAAAAC-Y/7tWI0Te8bB8/humb%20backed%20bridge3.jpg)

There. Not one twiddly bit, and only nominal modularity.

And for scale...

(http://lh3.ggpht.com/_RRKBhA-2I4w/TDzlkMCmygI/AAAAAAAAC-c/aL08DtqRmGA/humb%20backed%20bridge4.jpg)

Now it is entirely coincidental that the bridge height is the same as a single storey of the remaining buildings so could be used as a ramp up to a second storey entry on a building. And i don't know qute how the bridge width turned out able to take 2 30mm display bases alongside each other or why the length of each section is exactly the length of one of the wall sections.

So simple and non twiddly enough mike?