TOPLESS : The Art of Building between the Studs

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Tile or Plate Located between Enough Studs
The Art of building between the studs
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Tile or Plate Between Studs
Introduction

• Existing building techniques
• SNOT / Schleim
•  Studs not on top 
• AZMEP
•  Aus zwei mach eins Plättchen 
• halfstud offset
• Round 1x1 or Technic Bush between 4 studs

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Tile or Plate Between Studs
Introduction

• Tile or plate placed verticaly between studs
• or, for a good acronym
• Tile or Plate Located between Enough Studs

gt TOPLESs
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Tile or Plate Between Studs
Illustration
P-LESs
T-LESs
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Tile or Plate Between Studs
Illustration

• Appearance in official sets 311, 609, 613...

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Tile or Plate Between Studs
Examples of simple use

• Coal staithes (Stuart Jones)

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Tile or Plate Between Studs
Examples of simple use

• Fences

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Tile or Plate Between Studs
Examples of simple use

• Ladder

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Tile or Plate Between Studs
First constatations

• Not really solid
• Problem plates dont
• fit perfectly because of the studs
• prefer tiles
• or use an offset of a half stud

P-LESs space of 0.51mm
T-LESs OK
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Tile or Plate Between Studs
First constatations

• Problem of curve of the plates
• Important curve for P-LESs
• Slight curve for T-LESs
• gt Solution prefer the tiles, or thicken the
  support

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Tile or Plate Between Studs
Examples seen at 1000SteineLand

• Peaks of the cathedral (Juergen et Ingo Bramigk)

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Tile or Plate Between Studs
Examples seen at 1000SteineLand

• Jambs of windows (Sven Moritz Hein)

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Tile or Plate Between Studs
Examples seen at 1000SteineLand

• Double T beam (Michel Brachmond)

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Tile or Plate Between Studs
A piece of geometry

• Combination with SNOT, use of the ratio 52

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Tile or Plate Between Studs
A piece of geometry
Bracket 1/2 plate
1 tile 1 bracket take place between the 2 parts
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Tile or Plate Between Studs
A piece of geometry

• Application of TOPLESs to a wagon

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Tile or Plate Between Studs
A piece of geometry

• A particular way to fix elements

Problem How to fix the wind-screen ?
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Tile or Plate Between Studs
Origin a footbridge for a train station

• Origin of my work on this building method
• Reconstitution of a traditionnal footbrige of
  french train stations
• Constraints resemblance with the original, size
  of the construction

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Tile or Plate Between Studs
Origin a footbridge for a train station

• Classic stairs

• Too big
• 14 stairs -gt
• 28 studs

• No space between
• the bars of the fence

• Bars too thick

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Tile or Plate Between Studs
Origin a footbridge for a train station

• Solution use plates for
• thin bars
• How to fix these plates ?
• Verticaly between
• the studs !
• Avantages
• we can fix the next stair on
• the bar
• we keep a small size
• Drawbacks fragile !

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Tile or Plate Between Studs
Origin a footbridge for a train station

• How to consolidate ?
• We have a vertical plate on the middle of a plate
  
• gt half-plate offset
• Useful bricks 1x1 with headlight, bracket...

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Tile or Plate Between Studs
Origin a footbridge for a train station

• The solution
• headlight bracket using SNOT
• repetitive motif
• but not perfect (P-LESs)

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Tile or Plate Between Studs
Origin a footbridge for a train station

• The solution

TOPLESs
TOPLESs
SNOT
AZMEP
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Tile or Plate Between Studs
Origin a footbridge for a train station

• The footbridge

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Tile or Plate Between Studs
Origin a footbridge for a train station

• Details of the footbridge

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Conclusion

• Old technique but under-used
• Fragile
• A good addition to SNOT
• A lot of applications