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[Brandlin]

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

[Brandlin]

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

[Emberbreeze]

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

[Brandlin]

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...



and possibly then arranged like this ...



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

[Emberbreeze]

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.

[Brandlin]

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.

[Rick]

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.

[Brandlin]

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

[Klute]

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

MMMMmmmmMMmmmmm .... card tubes !!

 

[Brandlin]

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.



simple enough?

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

So the old brain did this...



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

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

Hmmm



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

And for scale...



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?