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 Author: Nesh95 View Messages Posted By Nesh95
 Posted: May 6, 2025 19:11
 Subject: Need help connecting these towers.
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Nesh95 (325)

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I built an MOC I found on Rebrickable, it's a building from Red Alert 2.
It looks really good but the problem is, there is nothing connecting all the
towers together. In Studio this isn't an issue but in IRL it is. The grate
pieces aren't connectors in case you were wondering.

The problem is these towers are circular and the outer towers go around the center
in a triangular shape so normal bricks and plates don't connect.

Can you help me? What pieces would be able to connect all these together?

I would like to be as minimalistic and authentic looking as possible instead
of just slapping a big 20x20 plate underneath it.

Thanks
 


 Author: 1001bricks View Messages Posted By 1001bricks
 Posted: May 6, 2025 19:50
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In Help, Nesh95 writes:
  I built an MOC I found on Rebrickable, it's a building from Red Alert 2.
It looks really good but the problem is, there is nothing connecting all the
towers together. In Studio this isn't an issue but in IRL it is. The grate
pieces aren't connectors in case you were wondering.

The problem is these towers are circular and the outer towers go around the center
in a triangular shape so normal bricks and plates don't connect.

Can you help me? What pieces would be able to connect all these together?

I would like to be as minimalistic and authentic looking as possible instead
of just slapping a big 20x20 plate underneath it.

Thanks

Could this help? Why not using other plates, or adding other ones to make more
stability or a nicer pattern?
 


 Author: 1001bricks View Messages Posted By 1001bricks
 Posted: May 6, 2025 19:55
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Apart if you mean their connection at 120°, I'd use this kind of solution,
maybe?
 
 Author: Ziegelmeister View Messages Posted By Ziegelmeister
 Posted: May 6, 2025 20:40
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In Help, 1001bricks writes:
  Apart if you mean their connection at 120°, I'd use this kind of solution,
maybe?

Good thinking.
 Author: SylvainLS View Messages Posted By SylvainLS
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In Help, Nesh95 writes:
  I built an MOC I found on Rebrickable, it's a building from Red Alert 2.
It looks really good but the problem is, there is nothing connecting all the
towers together. In Studio this isn't an issue but in IRL it is. The grate
pieces aren't connectors in case you were wondering.

The problem is these towers are circular and the outer towers go around the center
in a triangular shape so normal bricks and plates don't connect.

Can you help me? What pieces would be able to connect all these together?

I would like to be as minimalistic and authentic looking as possible instead
of just slapping a big 20x20 plate underneath it.

Thanks

You could connect the grilles together with
 
Part No: 93609  Name: Arm Skeleton, Bent with Clips (Horizontal Grip)
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93609 Arm Skeleton, Bent with Clips (Horizontal Grip)
Parts: Minifigure, Body Part
and connect the center tower to one of the side towers.

That would push the towers a bit apart because the arm needs more room (1.5 studs
between the clips) than the space between the grilles in your current build.

The arm needs to be turned 56.31° to have the clips aligned, according to the
help inside the LDraw file and math… but I found that 56.57° works better (the
error is smaller for the part snapped into the clip).
 Author: yorbrick View Messages Posted By yorbrick
 Posted: May 7, 2025 07:09
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  I would like to be as minimalistic and authentic looking as possible instead
of just slapping a big 20x20 plate underneath it.

Rather than slapping a large plate beneath it, I'd make a good looking terrain
from a couple of layers of plates to slap underneath it.