{"id":8402,"date":"2017-11-15T16:04:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T16:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/?p=8402"},"modified":"2017-11-15T16:04:56","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T16:04:56","slug":"featured-tutorial-toltomejas-curved-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brickbuilt.org\/?p=8402","title":{"rendered":"Featured Tutorial: Toltomeja’s Curved Path"},"content":{"rendered":"

For this month’s featured tutorial, Toltomeja shares how he creates a very unique curving path.<\/p>\n

“Building a curved path is very simple and requires only a couple of popular types of bricks.<\/em><\/p>\n

Ingredients:<\/em>
\n – 1 baseplate<\/em>
\n – DBG slopes 2x1x3 (could be inverted slopes just as well)<\/em>
\n – DBG headlight bricks<\/em>
\n – DBG plates and bricks 1×1<\/em>
\n – LBG 1×1 and 1×3 tiles<\/em>
\n – half pins<\/em>
\n – some 1×2 and 2×2 jumpers<\/em>
\n – blue plates for water<\/em><\/p>\n

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We’ll start with one segment slightly different than the others – thanks to its shape, the path will be able to turn in two opposite directions.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Put some blue plates to build the water surface and attach the first segment to it at any angle you like with the headlight brick.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Start the next segment with joining two slopes together and trying to adjust them as following.<\/em>
\n The red dashed line shows where you should look for a place to attach the segment with a headlight brick. It can be either a stud, a point between two studs (then we’ll use a 1×2 jumper) or a point in the middle between four studs (then a 2×2 jumper shall be our hero).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Each following segment must be as close to the previous one as possible. I chose to attach the headlight brick to a 2×2 jumper.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Next, fill the missing space between the headlight brick and the slopes with 1×1 plates and 1×1 bricks. You can see the Dark Tan 2×2 jumper I mentioned behind the segment.<\/em><\/p>\n

Use half pins to cover the longer side of the walkway with a 1×3 tile.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Then add a 1×1 tile to cover the stud of the slope – hooray, you’ve just finished the first segment of your curved path!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Continue attaching the next fragments, always trying to keep them as close as possible to the rest.<\/em><\/p>\n

Note that on the other side of the initial segment, the path will turn in the opposite direction, forming an S-shape.<\/em><\/p>\n

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This is what the path should look like. The last thing we’re missing is the water itself.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Cover all the remaining surface with blue plates, and your path will soon be finished! You can make the path as long as you like.<\/em><\/p>\n

You can see the technique in action in one of my MOCs, Hongcun:<\/em>”<\/p>\n

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Thanks for sharing your technique with us, Toltomeja!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For this month’s featured tutorial, Toltomeja shares how he creates a very unique curving path. “Building a curved path is very simple and requires only a couple of popular types\u2026<\/p>\n

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