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Its been a very busy past few months since Brickfest. Sorry I didn’t get to this sooner. Long story short, I haven’t really had time to do much with the lighthouse since then. To answer your questions: I have no idea how I’ll do either of those. I think the lighthouse will be put on the backburner for a little while. This was a huge project, and I’d like to do a few smaller ones to refresh myself a bit before I get back into this one.
I’d say our best bet is to just freestyle the base. The intention way in the future is to replicate the actual base of the lighthouse today, but I think it’d be more fun to just be creative for brickfest
Lighthouse sits on a 48×48 baseplate, 58 inches tall, minifig scale. It is not raised. The only feasible way I can see to raise the lighthouse under the current time constraints is to place the entire base plate onto to something. Perhaps something that’s easier, and possibly more accurate, is to build a sand dune barrier between the sand and grass
I walked past the model a few days ago and slipped on the base plate, causing the entire model to suddenly jerk about 8 inches to the side. Somehow it didn’t fall over or suffer any significant damage.
Currently stands at 58 inches tall. I’d love to expand the footprint, but there’s no way it’d be done in time for brickfest.
I guess the only thing of note is to counteract any weight distribution problems the structure might have. The lighthouse is very top heavy, so I had to make the base and central support structure wide enough and strong enough for it to take the weight of the top parts instead of relying on the round walls to
The plan is to have windows, a lawn, and a rotating beacon way in the future. For now, I just want a minimum viable model assembled.
UPDATE: Tower is fully assembled for the first time. I’ve found narrowing round towers are EXTREMELY difficult. At the moment it isn’t too stable, so more work will be done to shore up the inner core. Next up is finishing up the design of the lantern room.
Also some other things I’d like to do once I get a “first draft” of the tower done: adding windows on the tower, adding the ticket booth and fence, adding a rotating beacon in the lantern room with the proper characteristic (flash of light every 7.5 seconds). I’d like to get a minimum base version of the model done before adding in nice-to-haves.
I’m not entirely sure what you mean, but moving it is hairy to say the least. It’ll have to be moved off the dining room table since it’ll become too tall to work on as soon as I add the next piece of the spiral
At the moment it’s fragile at best. Getting the spiral of one section to line up with the next is turning out to be tricky
I’m also working on a model of Hyrule Castle. That’s been put on the backburner until this is complete. This is a model I’ve always wanted to do
While we’re at it, does anyone have any good tips for attaching round towers to square bases? I’m using the technique of pivoted 1×2’s with round 1×1’s and need a clean way of attaching them to regular bricks.
Very well done and original idea! Do you have any plans for any coaches or freight cars to go with it?
A gripe I have about using those CAD tools is they give you option to use parts that may or may not exist in a specific color
The build is based off Hyrule Castle from the Legend of Zelda series, in particular those from the games, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
