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Featured Tutorial: Cozei’s Round Roof Technique
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…