{"id":2734,"date":"2016-01-18T00:18:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T00:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/?p=2734"},"modified":"2016-02-29T16:11:20","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T16:11:20","slug":"tilted-plate-landscape-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/?p=2734","title":{"rendered":"Tilted Plate Landscape Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tilting plates can often be an effective way to make hills and mounds in landscapes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2122\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/landscape-1.jpg\" alt=\"landscape\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/landscape-1.jpg 720w, http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/landscape-1-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/landscape-1-225x150.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/landscape-1-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I usually use 1&#215;2 vertical hinges to attach the plates, and mix in standard studs up building to smooth transitions.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2731\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Adding-Plates.jpg\" alt=\"Adding Plates\" width=\"720\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Adding-Plates.jpg 720w, http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Adding-Plates-300x195.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Adding-Plates-250x163.jpg 250w, http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Adding-Plates-150x98.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By laying out the tilted sections first, it&#8217;s easy to build around them and cover up any gaps.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2733\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Fitting-Together.jpg\" alt=\"Fitting Together\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Fitting-Together.jpg 720w, http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Fitting-Together-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Fitting-Together-250x167.jpg 250w, http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Fitting-Together-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Continue in this way, until you&#8217;ve got the entire landscape base finished.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2732\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Base-done.jpg\" alt=\"Base done\" width=\"720\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Base-done.jpg 720w, http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Base-done-300x188.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Base-done-250x157.jpg 250w, http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Base-done-150x94.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then all that&#8217;s left is finishing ground texture, and adding some plants. Leaves or other plant parts can be quite helpful to cover up any small gaps.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2122\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/landscape-1.jpg\" alt=\"landscape\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/landscape-1.jpg 720w, http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/landscape-1-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/landscape-1-225x150.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/landscape-1-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tilting plates can often be an effective way to make hills and mounds in landscapes. I usually use 1&#215;2 vertical hinges to attach the plates, and mix in standard studs\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/?p=2734\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[659,77],"tags":[279,53,274,827,14,8,49,828,610,273,478],"class_list":["post-2734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-isaac","category-tutorial","tag-building","tag-design","tag-ground","tag-hill","tag-landscape","tag-lego","tag-moc","tag-mound","tag-plate","tag-technique","tag-tilted"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2734"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3723,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734\/revisions\/3723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}